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Originally Posted by Lee Fyock
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Interesting. I looked at the website mentioned in the article, and the only info I could find about the eBook was the following section:
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(Edit: This is now inside "spoiler" tags, because after a little sleep I realized that it looked like I was advertising something... or possibly making fun of the author. I'm not. This section is quoted only to put the two sections below in context. — M.D.B.)
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... so I Googled "Tam Thompson" and "ebook," and came up with a couple of other interesting links.
This one includes the following section (I've bolded and underlined the relevant part):
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How will this unique ebook signing work?
"People will visit the library, get on the computers, and purchase 'Busy Sexy Body--How YOU can have a slim, sexy body in just 17 minutes a day, even if you think you're too busy!' and then I'll autograph a printed full-color cover and answer any questions," says Tam Thompson, B.S. and M.Ed. in Kinesiology and former owner of Thompson Fitness Training.
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this one has a follow-up reaction:
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First-time ebook author Tam Thompson wasn't expecting to be overwhelmed at Texas' first ebook signing for her new ebook, "Busy Sexy Body--How YOU can have a slim, sexy body in just 17 minutes a day, no matter how busy you are", a 64-page fitness and weight loss ebook for women who are too busy to drive to a fitness center.
But she didn't expect to have her title banned, nor the flyer she'd carefully taped to the door of her hometown library in Blanco, Texas during her library volunteer hours …yet that's what happened.
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... which is rather sad, because it's fairly clear from the image and accompanying text that her work has nothing to do with "sex" (the part that raised objections), and more to do with finding ways to exercise while maintaining a busy schedule.
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Originally Posted by Lee Fyock
This seems like one of those good ideas that people keep inventing independently.
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Multiple independent discovery is an honorable tradition. Tam Thompson doesn't quite fit in the list, if she was only autographing paper covers to
accompany an eBook (which is my understanding of the explanation she gave, above), but your experience with Tad Williams certainly seems to establish his involvement with a similar concept during the 2003 BookExpo America.
Did any other authors avail themselves of that technology, or did it evaporate? I'd never heard of it, but I am relatively new to the whole concept of eBooks.
- M.