{"id":2894,"date":"2009-11-18T09:56:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T16:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=2894"},"modified":"2009-11-18T09:56:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T16:56:02","slug":"a-cartoonist-wonders-about-the-fuss-over-digital-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/11\/18\/a-cartoonist-wonders-about-the-fuss-over-digital-books\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cartoonist Wonders About the Fuss Over Digital Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2893\" title=\"Optimism\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Optimism.jpg\" alt=\"Optimism\" width=\"304\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Optimism.jpg 304w, https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Optimism-193x300.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/>Cartoonist <em>Lucy Knisley<\/em> has a comic online called <em><a href=\"http:\/\/lucylou.livejournal.com\/578698.html\">&#8216;Downloading Optimism: Pessimism Virus Detected.&#8217;<\/a> <\/em>It&#8217;s a funny but very direct assault on the tendency in some quarters to fret and worry about the emergence of digital books and online reading as the driving force behind the new world of publishing.\u00a0 She doesn&#8217;t understand why some of our most creative writers and artists are feeling so gloomy about their prospects in a digital publishing world.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s been reading enormous amounts of online text since she was a little girl.\u00a0 Her point of view is dead on the money.\u00a0 One little thing I know is that I began publishing for kids online back in 1995.\u00a0 The kids came and were reading lots of stories.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s say a bunch of them were only 5.\u00a0 Well, they&#8217;re 20 now, and they are making it plain that they want their books on screens just as often as they might want them on paper.\u00a0 You ignore them at your peril.<\/p>\n<p><em>I found this comic via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/11\/18\/comic-on-the-joy-of.html\">Boing Boing<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cartoonist Lucy Knisley has a comic online called &#8216;Downloading Optimism: Pessimism Virus Detected.&#8217; It&#8217;s a funny but very direct assault on the tendency in some quarters to fret and worry about the emergence of digital books and online reading as the driving force behind the new world of publishing.\u00a0 She doesn&#8217;t understand why some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[2500,782,522,243,120,200],"class_list":["post-2894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","tag-books","tag-digital-books","tag-download","tag-ebooks","tag-online","tag-publishing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2897,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions\/2897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}