{"id":1262,"date":"2009-10-30T06:50:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T10:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2009-10-30T06:50:49","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T10:50:49","slug":"1262","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/30\/1262\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Publishing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_1093.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image\" \/><\/a>Yesterday, the Grumpy Vegan was book shopping in London&#8217;s West End before going on to the excellent talk given by American environmentalist, Lester Brown, which was organized by Compassion In World Farming. <\/p>\n<p>In Blackwell&#8217;s book shop in the Charing Cross Road he saw for the first time the print-on-demand machine that he&#8217;s heard so much about. You give them a computer file with your manuscript on it. Hey Presto! You&#8217;re given a published copy of your book. <\/p>\n<p>It was simultaneously strangely compelling and disturbing. But is it the future of publishing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the Grumpy Vegan was book shopping in London&#8217;s West End before going on to the excellent talk given by American environmentalist, Lester Brown, which was organized by Compassion In World Farming. In Blackwell&#8217;s book shop in the Charing Cross &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/30\/1262\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinking","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}