{"id":5453,"date":"2011-03-13T07:48:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T07:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/03\/13\/links-for-2011-03-13\/"},"modified":"2011-03-13T07:48:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T07:48:18","slug":"links-for-2011-03-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/03\/13\/links-for-2011-03-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-03-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/louanders.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/just-for-record.html\">Bowing to the Future: Just for the record&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;It takes a bit of work to make a decent ebook. I&#8217;ve been overseeing the conversion of the Pyr backlist for two months now, so I know. I&#8217;ve also bought about 15 ebooks in the last two weeks on iBooks, and I&#8217;m sorry to say that I wish a few of the publishers whose books I&#8217;ve bought had taken a little more time with the conversion process. In one sad case, every single first letter of the first word on every line of the contents page is omitted. In another, every instance of the word &#8220;pilot&#8221; has been rendered as &#8220;pi lot,&#8221; where about a quarter of all apostrophes are rendered as dashes. A third omits all interior illustrations though the cover and front matter proclaims &#8220;illustrated by&#8230;&#8221;. &#8220;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/publishing\">publishing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/ebooks\">ebooks<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/media\">media<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bowing to the Future: Just for the record&#8230; &#8220;It takes a bit of work to make a decent ebook. I&#8217;ve been overseeing the conversion of the Pyr backlist for two months now, so I know. I&#8217;ve also bought about 15 ebooks in the last two weeks on iBooks, and I&#8217;m sorry to say that I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/03\/13\/links-for-2011-03-13\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2011-03-13<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}