Guest Column: E-books: Reading Like It’s 1999
A decade later ... and relatively little has changed.
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Jeff Gomez
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Back in the late ’90s, when the dot-coms and the technology sector were flush from the continual inflating of the Internet bubble, there was a veritable e-book gold rush. The marketplace was flooded with formats, devices and business models, and grand predictions were made about e-books and electronic reading. Publishers worked diligently to convert their frontlists and backlists, and some started electronic imprints and Web sites through which they sold their digital products. The sound of cash registers could be heard in the distance; print was soon to be an endangered species.
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