{"id":1461,"date":"2012-02-08T15:56:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T15:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2012-02-14T14:54:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T14:54:51","slug":"pullman-offers-thought-on-e-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-offers-thought-on-e-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Pullman offers thoughts on E-books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In light of the recent debate started by Jonathan Franzen&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/hay-festival\/9047981\/Jonathan-Franzen-e-books-are-damaging-society.html\">critique of E-books<\/a>, Phillip Pullman has commented on his unease with the burgeoning technology.  Echoing the core of Franzen&#8217;s argument, Pullman is particularly concerned with E-book readers&#8217; reliance on external servers.  Talking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/opinion\/oped\/debate-ebooks-and-the-future-of-democracy-1.3500652\">Leah Price<\/a>, Pullman suggested that the true significance of E-books is as yet unknown, but that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I mistrust any device whose continued usage depends on vast, mysterious and invisible infrastructure of electricity supply, computer servers, broadband connections, credit facilities and so on.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite his skepticism, Pullman does own a Kindle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of the recent debate started by Jonathan Franzen&#8217;s critique of E-books, Phillip Pullman has commented on his unease with the burgeoning technology. Echoing the core of Franzen&#8217;s argument, Pullman is particularly concerned with E-book readers&#8217; reliance on external &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-offers-thought-on-e-books\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philip-pullman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}