The Once and Future E-Book: On Reading in the Digital Age

I was pitched head first into the world of e-books in 2002 when I took a job with Palm Digital Media. The company, originally called Peanut Press, was founded in 1998 with a simple plan: Publish books in electronic form. As it turns out, that simple plan leads directly into a technological, economic and political hornet’s nest. But thanks to some good initial decisions (more on those later), little Peanut Press did pretty well for itself in those first few years, eventually having a legitimate claim to its self-declared title of “the world’s largest e-book store.”

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