E-book news online
'Thomson Consumer Electronics has selected Cirrus Logic’s Maverick EP7212 processor for use in a book-shaped portable electronic reading tablet called an RCA e-Book.'
e-Insite, August 22, 2000
Frightened
Stephen King Fans Pony Up Extra Bucks to Make Up for Freeloaders
'King fans frightened about being cut off from the author's online serial
novel have been sending extra cash to make up for readers who downloaded
the first instalment without paying for it.'
BookWire, August 22, 2000
Brill’s
Contentville Gets Ready to Offer E-Books
Contentville.com is expected to launch its e-book initiative early next
month as it continues to strike deals with publishers for the rights to
sell digital versions of new and classic books titles.
dmnews.com, August 15, 2000
Prospective
Veep's E-Book
The day after Al Gore announced the identity of his running mate, Joseph
Lieberman’s book, In Praise of Public Life, was sold out in many books
stores across the country. But the e-book version is available in an
unlimited supply.
Wired News, August 14, 2000
From
deep space to cyberspace
J Michael Straczynski, creator of the Babylon 5 TV series, is planning to
make his latest novel available in four limited-life instalments that can
be downloaded from the web.
BBC News, August 10, 2000
eBook
Wars
Battlefield Earth and Stephen King's Riding the Bullet battle it out for
#1 spot on peanutpress.com's bestseller list.
About, August 10, 2000
Simon
& Schuster Leads The E-Book Charge
Simon & Schuster releases popular titles in ebook format to coincide
with Microsoft's launch of free Microsoft Reader software.
Forbes, August 9, 2000
Microsoft
Launches E-Book Software; Big Shift Seen
Microsoft's launch of the new Microsoft Reader software for electronic
books was marked by publishers as a turning point for the book industry.
Upside, August 9, 2000
E-Lit
Support Group Formed
E-publishers and new media professionals can now look to the Electronic
Literature Organization, a year-old nonprofit founded to provide support
and industry analysis for literature designed for electronic media.
Publishers Weekly August 7, 2000
Random
House's E-Books Foray Threatens Startups
Random House announced Monday that it would make a serious foray into
electronic books this winter, when it releases original titles from
authors such as Elizabeth Wurtzel, Rob Walker and a dominatrix named
Mistress Ruby, among others.
INSIDE, August 03, 2000
iPublish.com
at Time Warner Books is First to Inveil List of Ebook Titles
List showcases works by Nelson DeMille, David Baldacci, Sandra Brown,
Nicholas Sparks and David Foster Wallace. About.com, August 1,
2000
July 2000
Random
House Launches E-Book Unit
Random House today announced a line-up of titles it will publish early
next year under a new e-book imprint.
Newsbytes, July 30, 2000
Seybold
to highlight digital publishing issues
Seybold San Francisco 2000 publishing show will be focused on digital
rights management and electronic books. Microsoft is preparing a raft of
announcements both prior to and during the event, including information
about its own digital rights management product
InfoWorld, July 27, 2000
MightyWords
Joins Forces with William Morrow & Co. To publish Ebook By Dying
Author
In response to a recent fatal diagnosis of an author, MightyWords.com has
joined forces with William Morrow & Co. to publish an abridged
electronic edition of her book that will not be available as a printed
book until this October.
About.com July 25, 2000
Amazon.com
Chosen by Stephen King to Facilitate Payment for Exclusive Serialized
Online Novel, The Plant
In an ambitious publishing experiment, monthly installments of The Plant
will be available for download only on www.stephenking.com, with King
asking his readers to pay $1 for each installment on the honor system. The
first installment of The Plant was made available today, and the second
installment will be posted on King's site on August 21.
About.com, July 24, 2000
Fiona
Avery's `Crusade' Scripts Debut on Bookface.com
Renowned Science Fiction and Fantasy Author Provides Previously Unreleased
Scripts for Fans to Explore Online for Free at Bookface.com
About.com, July 24, 2000
E-Book
Publishing: Much Ado About Nothing Much?
Stephen King's latest tale is another sign of the growing enthusiasm for
the medium. But, for all the hype, almost no one is making money.
LA Times.com, July 24, 2000
Say
I Can Offers First Free Online Computer Book (July 20, 2000)
Say I Can, a Berkeley-based publisher, announced that their popular
computer book The Dragon NaturallySpeaking Guide is available free on the
Web. This is the first time a major printed computer book has been offered
online at no charge.
About.com, July 20, 2000
Books
by the Chapter or Verse Arrive on the Internet This Fall
IDG Books and iUniverse team up to sell books by the chapter.
"Readers will be invited to create customized books by picking pieces
of content à la carte from an array of already-published guides at, say,
$5 a chapter instead of $20 a book."
New York Times, July 18, 2000
Giving
It All Away
Bestselling author Seth Godin is offering his latest work as a free
e-book, circumventing the traditional publishing process, and banking on
future rewards.
About.com, July 15, 2000
Curling Up With an E-book
A vice-president at McGraw Hill writes: "Like the personal computer
before it, the e-book opens a world of possibilities. It is not
necessarily better than printed books, nor need it supplant them. But its
time is here."
New York Times, July 7, 2000
Simon
& Schuster to go digital
Simon & Schuster, the US book publisher, is teaming up with Lightning
Source, a provider of print-on-demand services, to convert its backlist of
12,000 book titles to digital form.
Financial Times, July 6, 2000
June 2000
The
Future of Ebooks: Texts of Tomorrow?
The age of the eBook is here. With easily readable, high-resolution
screens, sound and video, and a considerable selection of book titles from
which to choose, the newest e-books offer everything you could want from a
reading machine. But there is still some doubt about whether the majority
of book lovers will take to digitized reading. Will ebooks, and the
ebusinesses that produce and support them, survive?
Internet.com, June 16, 2000
King's
Fans Want New Ebook
'In the last four days, more than 7,000 King fans voted on the author's
website after King asked his readers whether they'd be willing to pay $1
per installment to download the remainder of The Plant, an epistolary
novel he begain in the 1980s. "The results were overwhelmingly
positive," King's assistant, Marsha DeFilippo, said. "There were
only 400 negative votes.'
Wired, June 15, 2000
E-books
novel, but where are the novels?
A recent spate of hot e-sellers are spurring publishers to rush more books
online, but technical obstacles have thrown a few wrenches into the works.
ZDNet, June 14, 2000
Barnesandnoble.com
Invests $30 Million In MightyWords
Barnesandnoble.com announces that it has invested approximately $20
million into digital content provider, MightyWords, a former subsidiary of
Fatbrain.com.
BizReport, June 7, 2000
Writer fights pirates in legal shootouts
Harlan Ellison, author of 74 books, hundreds of short stories (including
the classic I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream) and Star Trek episodes,
filed suit against both individuals and companies -- including America
Online -- he alleges either illegally distributed or provided the medium
to distribute his work.
USA Today, June 7, 2000
Still
Hard to Digest, but Digital Books May Have a Future
Gary Chapman believes that the quality of literature today is better than
ever, but the best writers "are essentially invisible in cyberspace,
except on the Web sites where customers can purchase their books. For now,
good literature and the Internet appear light-years apart. "
LA Times, June 5, 2000
What
Jeff Said
Notes on Jeff Bezos' keynote address at BookExpo America, including
comments on ecommerce and ebook publishing. Don't count ebooks out, Jeff
said, but don't expect anything major within the next two or three years
either.
About.com, June 4, 2000
Read A
Book, And Ad, On Bookface.com
AdWeek reports on BookFace.com, a San Francisco-based site offering books
and excerpts (some from major publishers) free with an ad-supported model.
Bookface plans to generate revenue from advertisers and then pay authors
and publishers for each page read.
AdWeek, June 2, 2000
May 2000
Giving
Them Their Just Awards
"For instance, will two trends currently shaping the
industry--consolidation in the publishing business and advancements in
e-book technology and popularity--push a greater concentration of literary
talent into Internet publishing? And, if and when that happens, will some
of the established literary awards find themselves judging Web-based works
alongside their more familiar hard-copy cousins? "
Book, May 2000
Can
Book Publishing Retain Its Most Precious Asset?
"The Internet changes the entire dynamics of publishing. When Stephen
King's words can be packaged into a PDF file and downloaded by anyone with
a computer in a few minutes, one must begin to question what his
publisher, Simon & Schuster, is doing to earn its share of the income
pie."
ClickZ, May 16, 2000
Lightning
Print Inc. Changes Name, Adds eBook Services
Reflecting its new direction, the company formerly known as Lightning
Print Inc., a subsidiary of Ingram Industries Inc., unveiled a new name,
Lightning Source, launched a new website, and announced the opening of
expanded headquarters facilities in Tennessee. Lightning Source also
announced a new suite of digital services designed to help publishers and
booksellers deliver eBooks and other digital content.
The Write News, May 10, 2000
April 2000
The
Library of Congress Will Not Digitize Books
The Library of Congress announces a new Web site, digitizing special
formats such as maps and sound recordings. The Librarian of Congress,
James Billington, criticized the Internet and electronic book hardware and
said the Library would not be digitizing books. The Librarian stated his
belief that the traditional book will not be replaced, and stressed the
dangers of electronic delivery, "You don't want to be one of those
mindless futurists," said Billington, "who sit in front of a
lonely screen."
Tech Law Journal, April 15, 2000
The Wired Word
Electronic publishing is a mixed blessing, writes Jonathan Yardley. Many
things will be published that have not been before, but publishing on the
Internet will bypass the editorial process. And while the egalitarianism
is appealing, it "rests on an untenable assumption: not merely that
all of us are created equal, but that all of us are equally meritorious
and interesting."
The Washington Post, April 10, 2000
Read
All About It
Electronic publishing is making some inroads, but "text on paper is
not giving up too much ground to its more sophisticated successor; a habit
4,500 years old is hard to break."
Irish Times, April 10, 2000
Closing
a Chapter of Tradition
Fred Moody paints a gloomy picture for the big New York publishing houses,
blaming their future demise on the decline in quality and services they
have offered in the past 20 years. He writes: "By the time paperless
publishing becomes economically viable, writers and readers will have cut
publishers out of the equation."
ABC News.com, April 5, 2000
AAP
Names Task Force To Create E-book Standards
Anderson Consulting recommends that the AAP facilitate the creation of an
"open standards solution" for ebook drm, numbering systems and
metadata structures, warning that if publishers fail to take the lead,
e-book market development "will be slower, more chaotic and less
profitable."
Publishers Weekly, April 3, 2000
DigitalOwl.com Secures e-Publishing Agreement with Authority Press
Authority Press has agreed to provide published content to DigitalOwl.com
for digital conversion. The documents can then be purchased and downloaded
from Authority Press using KineticEdge software products.
Business Wire, April 3, 2000
The
Coming Ecology of Ebook Publishing
'Until we have a system where "publishing" is distinct from
"distribution" and from "retailing", and
"publishing" means being an intermediary between authors and a
complex, multi-point distribution system, we won't have a market that is
ready for prime time. ' Tim O'Reilly's comments about FatBrain.com's
publishing/distributing/retailing model.
Tim O'Reilly's Weblog, April 2, 2000
March 2000
E-book
publishers writing new chapters
A look at the progress being made by electronic books, and some minor
projections about the future. Interesting tidbit: According to internal
projections by Harper Collins, they expect ebooks to account for $2
Billion in annual sales by 2005.
Chicago Tribune, March 31, 2000
The
Future of the Book
Salon.com examines the ways the digital revolution is changing what and
how we read in this four part series.
Salon.com, March 28, 2000
Amazon.com
and Adobe to Broaden Availability of eBooks
'On the heels of Stephen King's wildly successful eBook, "Riding the
Bullet," Adobe Systems Monday announced that it is working with
Amazon.com and Simon & Schuster to extend the availability of Mr.
King's novella to Macintosh users. '
BizReport, March 27, 2000
EBooks - and
the Word was good
"Sometimes, all that it takes to bring something onto the mainstream
is to give it celebrity endorsement. Think of Victor Kiam and razors, or
Paul Hogan and Foster's beer. Now it looks like the same kind of publicity
may be what launches eBooks onto the market. "
IT Director, March 27, 2000
Stephen
King's Week of Terror
"If books aren't abandoning their analog containers for digital ones,
they're about the only mainstream media product that is not. "
New York Times, March 25, 2000
Short
Take: Digital Publishing Hits the Big Time
This article by Tom Watson claims that the demand for Stephen King's first
e-book proved the model of digital delivery.
Silicon Alley News, March 16, 2000
E-Publishing:
Tomorrow's Publishers Today
"A perusal of the Web finds a gaggle of sites that publish original
e-books. More like old-media small presses than anything else on the Web,
these companies pay little to no advances and high royalties and, in many
cases, display an impressive editorial rigor."
Publishers Weekly, March 6, 2000
A Novel Device, Electronic Books Are Still Far From an Easy Read
"E-books are reminiscent of the early personal computers from the
1970s. You can tell their time will come, but it's not here yet.
LA Times, March 2, 2000
XML With
Style
A rather technical article about XML for Electronic Book Publishing and
the Open Ebook Specification.
XML.com, March 2, 2000
Weblife:
Electronic Books
Another opinion piece arguing that electronic books won't replace paper in
the near future, or maybe ever.
The Guardian, March 2, 2000
Barnesandnoble.com
and Microsoft to Create eBook Superstore
Barnesandnoble.com, Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have announced that they will
create a barnesandnoble.com eBook Superstore using Microsoft Reader
software.
Information Today, March 1, 2000
February 2000
Serial
E-Authors Make a Killing
Publishers find that doling out bits of books online can hook readers and
entice them to pay. By M.J. Rose.
Wired, February 29, 2000
Palm
Reading
Though e-book sales have been sluggish, Microsoft says in 10 years they'll
challenge the paper kind.
Salon.com, February 24, 2000
Borders.com
Writes Ebook Prologue
Borders now offers direct links to Peanut Press, which offers titles that
can be read on a Palm Pilot; ION Systems, which provides technology to
read books on personal computers; and SoftBook Press, which offers a
dedicated hand-held device for electronic reading.
Gomez.com, February 23, 2000
eBooks:
The Next Chapter
Author Carol Givner is as surprised as anyone that traditional booksellers
want copies of her latest e-book. The CDs are showing up on bookshelves
all over.
Wired, February 9, 2000
Digital
Publishing: From Arthur C. Clarke to Psoriasis Tales
A look at digital publishing and why some big name authors are giving it a
try. Primarily looks at Fatbrain.com's Ematter.
New York Times, February 7, 2000
The
Future of Publishing
This article by M.J. Rose shows us just how far ebooks and epublishing
have come in the past year.
Spark Online, February 2000
January 2000
Gemstar's
Maneuver Into E-Books Hard to Read
Maker of TV-related products buys into unproven market with eye on success
through licensing.
LA Times, January 24, 2000
Anyone Can Be An Author on the Internet
A poorly written piece trying to encompass the entire field of electronic
publishing in 500 words.
Montreal Gazetter, January 22, 2000
The Pocket Bookshelf (link expired)
The Rocket eBook is a step forward for ebooks, but it's still far from
what it needs to be if electronic books are to catch on in a big way.
Boston Globe, January 20, 2000
The Future of Print
A discussion of the threat that the Internet poses to the printed word.
FT.com, January 19, 2000
Gemstar
Enters Electronic-Book Business Through Acquisition of NuvoMedia Inc. and
SoftBook Press Inc.
Gemstar International Group Ltd. enters the ebook business through the
acquisition of the two leading eBook companies, NuvoMedia Inc. and
SoftBook Press Inc.
BusinessWire, January 18, 2000
Open Electronic
Book Forum Formed To Develop Standards For eBooks
A new forum is formed to help encourage adoption of the OEB standard and
the growth of the electronic book industry.
OpenEbook.org, January 13, 2000
Microsoft,
Audible Sign Pact
Microsoft will integrate Audible technology into its Microsoft Reader
software making Audible's audio books and information content available to
Microsoft Reader users.
FoxNews.com, January 7, 2000
Microsoft
Misses the Boat with Ebooks
Would Microsoft be better off investing in downloadable audiobooks rather
than in electronic books?
E-commerce Times, January 7, 2000
Book
Editor Sees Ups, Downs in E-Book Prospects
There has been a great deal of hoopla over electronic books and digitized
content in the last year or so but the practicalities of e-books haven't
yet measured up.
NACS, January 3, 2000
The reading edge: The electronic revolution is changing the way we
buy, store and consume books (link expired)
This article by editor Jane Henderson discusses some of the pitfalls of
electronic publishing, and its potential impact on the traditional
publishing industry.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 2, 2000
It's Time to Turn the Last Page
A look at how the shift to electronic books will change the way we think
about reading.
Newsweek, January 1, 2000
December 1999
Publishing
Industry Embracing Cyber-Frontier as 2000 Approaches
How the Internet is changing the way book publishing works. CNN.com,
December 30, 1999
Trying
to E-Right a Wrong
M.J. Rose looks at E-Rights.com, a new site from agent, and now
e-publisher, Richard Curtis. E-Rights.com will revive out of print titles,
and E-Reads.com will supply them to consumers.
Wired, December 27, 1999
E-Books
Turn over a New Leaf
A look at the e-book industry and the new Open E-Book Standard.
Wired, December 27, 1999
Publishers
are Racing to Convert Books to Bytes
'Traditional publishers are cautiously preparing for an uncharted future,
digitizing thousands of old backlist titles in preparation for an e-new
world where books can live forever because they will never go out of
print. '
New York Times, December 9, 1999
An
Unbound Bestseller
Sales of The Best Laid Plans by Leta Nolan Childers topped 6,000 copies,
an e-book record. It's an auspicious occasion for the 150-plus
e-publishers who collectively offer more than 3,000 titles, but who have
struggled for recognition from traditional publishing houses.
Wired, December 8, 1999
Electronic books an unfinished chapter (link expired)
Demand for digital is rising, but don't close the cover on paper editions
just yet
SiliconValley.com, December 8, 1999
Publishing
the Final Chapter... as an eBook
A brand new chapter of a book on Microsoft's predatory business practices
is published as eMatter at Fatbrain.com. More about this and eMatter's
vision and goals.
About.com, December 2, 1999
November 1999
-- Dick Brass, VP Technology, Microsoft Corp, November, 1999
Real
World Reviews for Ebooks
Foreword Magazine announces it will be the first traditional media outlet
to regularly print e-book reviews - at least 5 per issue starting January
1, 2000.
Wired News, November 29, 1999
Galleys,
'Publishers Weekly' Reviewers Go Digital
Publishers Weekly made a big deal out of this - they reviewed a galley in
Rocket eBook format. While this really isn't as exciting as they make it
sound, it will be nice if publishers can get away with sending an e-galley
rather than faking a print one.
Publishers Weekly, November 22, 1999
Is
This the End of the Story for Books?
"Will paper books, with their distinctive smell and touch, the
special, almost trancelike intimacy they can engender between writer and
reader, vanish forever? And if so, what will the experience of reading be
like in the 21st century?"
New York Times, November 20, 1999
Beyond
Gutenberg
An article by none other than Bill Gates explaining how and why e-books
will revolutionize the publishing industry. If Bill is for you, who can
stand against you?
Microsoft.com, November 19, 1999
Getting
a Read on Ebooks
"Electronic books have been slow to catch on among consumers, but big
Internet companies are betting that the time for e-books has come."
ABC News.com, November 9, 1999
Can
e-Publishing Upstarts Upset Traditional Powerhouses?
Web self-publishing and digital-rights management technology are poised to
push old-school publishing giants aside.
CNN.com, November 9, 1999
AlexLit.com
Buys Mind's Eye Fiction
In the first industry consolidation, Alexandria Digital Literature
(AlexLit.com) announced its purchase of competitor Mind's Eye Fiction at
the World Fantasy Convention in Providence, Rhode Island.
Xpress.com (press release), November 9, 1999
E-Publishing
Challenges the Gatekeeper Model
Comparing e-publishing with MP3 and the music industry, this article
discusses whether traditional publishers will be able to "ride the
electronic wave, rather than drown in its wake."
IDG.net, November 8, 1999
Microsoft,
R.R. Donnelley Plan eBook Titles
Microsoft and R.R. Donnelley & Sons announce a joint effort to provide
large numbers of eBook titles to users of Microsoft Reader software.
CNN.com, November 5, 1999
Scarcity of
Titles Slowing E-Book Progress?
Are there few e-book users because there are few titles available
electronically, or are there few electronic titles because the number of
e-book users is so small?
NACS, November 2, 1999
October 1999
The
Rocket: Consumer Device Or Business Tool?
This article takes a look at the technical capabilities and durability of
the Rocket eBook, and concludes it is an ideal tool for business
applications outside of harsh environments.
TechWeb, October 25, 1999
Why
is Microsoft Hawking e-Books?
E-books will never catch on, this writer says, no matter how much
Microsoft would like to see the book replaced by something it can control.
ZDNet, October 15, 1999
Paper-Free
Future
"The future is electronic. The past is paper." This article
Microsoft's claims about the future of electronic books and, in
particular, the Microsoft Reader.
ABC News, October 14, 1999
New
Awards Aimed at Spurring the Creation of High-Quality eBooks for Readers
Everywhere
Microsoft announces its sponsorship of the Frankfurt eBook Awards - seven
awards totaling $160,000, including a $100,000 grand prize for a work
originally published in eBook form.
Microsoft.com, October 13, 1999
Ebook
Bandwagon Filling Up
Announcements by Adobe, Fatbrain and Microsoft may speed up the pace of
consumer acceptance of ebooks.
Canada Computer Paper, October 1999
September 1999
-- Dick Brass, VP Technology, Microsoft Corp, September, 1999
New
e-Book Standard Launched
The Open E-book Authoring Group announces the Open Ebook Publication
Structure version 1.0.
ZDNet, September 21, 1999
Paving
the Way for the Books of the Future
Microsoft's take on the OEB standard release.
Microsoft.com, September 21, 1999
E-books inch closer to
bookshelves
Information on the Adobe Web Buy release, and some information on consumer
preferences and ebooks.
IDG.net, September 3, 1999
Microsoft
Predicts the Death of Paper
Microsoft predicts that within 20 years publishers will no longer be
printing their books, newspapers, and magazines on dead trees.
About.com, September 2, 1999
E-Books:
Read 'em and Keep
News of Adobe's PDF Merchant technologies, and Fatbrain.com's eMatter from
the Seybold Seminars conference.
Wired News, September 1, 1999
August 1999
Cutting
Paper
Microsoft has introduced new software for easier reading on a computer.
Will it lead to a publishing revolution?
ABCNews.com, August 30, 1999
Electronic
books still an incomplete work
Mercury News' Computing Editor find that considerable technological
progress is required before ebook reader devices will be accepted as a
viable alternative to the printed page.
San Jose Mercury News, August 28, 1999
July 1999
Some
Electrifying Reading
A look at the work being done at MIT Media Lab on E-Ink, and the future of
newspapers that print themselves.
ABCNews.com, July 16, 1999
E-bookmaker
makes fed push
The Defense Department is exploring whether to use electronic books to
distribute training materials under a pilot project with digital bookmaker
SoftBook Press Inc.
Federal Computer Week, July 5, 1999
Create
Your Own Virtual Books
An article about KeeBoo, a piece of software that lets you create and
share your own virtual books.
CNN.com, July 2, 1999
June 1999
Crack
Open an E-Book
The Ebooks are coming - announcements about the upcoming release of the
Rocket eBook and Softbook, as well as comments from those who are
resisting the new technology.
ABCNews.com, June 30, 1999
Microsoft
Banks on ClearType to Spur Electronic Books
More Dick Brass quotes and information on ClearType. Notable near the
bottom of the article is an admission by Brass that Microsoft is
considering becoming an ebook distributor/ebookstore.
CNN.com, June 18, 1999
Book
Burnout
A discussion of the publishing industry's reluctance to accept
electronic-publishing. Why are Rocket eBooks from major publishers more
expensive than hardcovers? Why no mention of ebooks on websites of major
industry players? Chalk it up to fear of the unknown, and resistance to
change.
The Standard, June 11, 1999
New
Technology Prints Books While You Wait
An article about InstaBook Corp, and print on demand technology. Walk into
your bookstore, search for the book you want at the computer screen, click
to purchase, and in less than 5 minutes have a perfect bound copy in your
hands. Awesome.
Forbes.com, June 4, 1999
Palm
Reading
A nice article about peanutpress and their ebooks and ebook software
created for the Palm Pilot.
Canada Computer Paper, June 1999
May 1999
Electronic
Books for All
Glassbook will offer a standard way to download e-books from bookstores or
libraries.
PC World.com, May 7, 1999
E-books
Draw Crowds, No Converts
Folks at BookExpo America were interested in the Rocket eBook, but few
were willing to relinquish their print books in favor of the electronic
version.
Wired News, May 3, 1999
1998 News
-- Jeff Lefevere, Publisher Rep. at Macmillan Computer Publishing on the Rocket eBook, October 1998
E-Book's
Bash in the Big Apple
Article about the formal launch of the Rocket eBook. The predictions some
publishers were making at the time have already been proven false.
Interesting reading.
Wired News, October 23, 1998
RWA
Conference/eBook Fair
About.com's Romance Fiction Guide reports on the Romance Writers of
America Conference and E-book Fair.
About.com, July 27, 1998