{"id":59,"date":"2013-04-04T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2013-03-26T06:01:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T06:01:21","slug":"are-paperbacks-on-their-way-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/are-paperbacks-on-their-way-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Paperbacks on Their Way Out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the popularity of iPods, e-readers and other technology, it seems that the majority of people are switching from traditional paperbacks and hard-covers to audiobooks. But is it really the same as reading?\u00a0 Olga Khazan, a Forbes.com contributor, weighs in on the debate and offers her thoughts on the issue, and explains why some may be better than others.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/olgakhazan\/2011\/09\/12\/is-listening-to-audio-books-really-the-same-as-reading\/\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/olgakhazan\/2011\/09\/12\/is-listening-to-audio-books-really-the-same-as-reading\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the popularity of iPods, e-readers and other technology, it seems that the majority of people are switching from traditional paperbacks and hard-covers to audiobooks. But is it really the same as reading?\u00a0 Olga Khazan, a Forbes.com contributor, weighs in on the debate and offers her thoughts on the issue, and explains why some may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/are-paperbacks-on-their-way-out\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are Paperbacks on Their Way Out?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}