{"id":2069,"date":"2011-07-22T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2012-06-08T12:26:46","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T17:26:46","slug":"would-you-like-a-diet-coke-with-that-ebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/would-you-like-a-diet-coke-with-that-ebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Press E4 For Twix, C2 For Mounds, D1 For The Hunger Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Guest article by <a href=\"levin@techcitement.com\">Joan Weiner<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-11657\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ebook-vending-263x490-custom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"490\" \/>File this one under &#8220;Only in Japan&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In the country famed for vending machines that dispense anything from underwear to entire watermelons, <em>The Digital Reader<\/em> reports that a company named Glory debuted a new one last week at the Tokyo eBook Fair: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-digital-reader.com\/2011\/07\/15\/ebook-vending-machines-now-showing-up-in-japan\/\">an eBook vending machine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Aimed at people who want to read books on their smartphones, the machine features a screen display that allows users to find and select ebooks. It then prints a receipt with a QR code that users can scan to download their purchased ebook.<\/p>\n<p>No plans have been announced to bring the machine to the United States, so no chance yet to fulfill my dream of buying <em>War and Peace<\/em> at the laundromat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File this one under &#8220;Only in Japan&#8221;: ebook vending machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,31],"tags":[451,452,2318,316,603,180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2086,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions\/2086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}