{"id":254476,"date":"2007-08-15T17:30:02","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T17:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/08\/15\/not-going-far-enough\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:38:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:38:50","slug":"not-going-far-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/08\/15\/not-going-far-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Going Far Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following on my unabashed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=219\">DailyLit love<\/a>, this <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.harpercollins.com\/browser.asp\">announcement<\/a> from HarperCollins sounds so 2006:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>HarperCollins Publishers is pleased to launch Browse Inside for the Apple iPhone. Browse Inside digitally replicates the experience of browsing the pages of a book prior to purchasing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Granted, I&#8217;m not a fan of the iPhone (I&#8217;ve already got my spam filter ready for your hate mail, so bring it), but regardless, this sounds pretty lame. They&#8217;re providing 10-page excerpts? Wow. I never would&#8217;ve thought that publishers could use the Internets to provide excerpts of books to readers. So revolutionary! <\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t help that the list of available books is filled with suck, including <i>Winning<\/i> by Jack Welch &#038; Suzy Welch and <i>When the Game is Over It All Goes Back in the Box<\/i><br \/>\nby John Ortberg.<\/p>\n<p>Disagree if you will, but to me this is yet another example of a company trying to take advantage of a flashy new toy but simply doing the same old thing in a way that doesn&#8217;t really add anything to the reader\/customer&#8217;s experience. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on my unabashed DailyLit love, this announcement from HarperCollins sounds so 2006: HarperCollins Publishers is pleased to launch Browse Inside for the Apple iPhone. Browse Inside digitally replicates the experience of browsing the pages of a book prior to purchasing. Granted, I&#8217;m not a fan of the iPhone (I&#8217;ve already got my spam filter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,4196,4236,4226,3826],"class_list":["post-254476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-dailylit","tag-harpercollins","tag-iphone","tag-rant"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363326,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254476\/revisions\/363326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}