Okay, here are more details (and actually, I'm still doing revising edits, so I suppose it's not completely finished, but close):
The target audience would be anyone in or outside of the e-book field who is interested in knowing more about its development (or, in this case, lack thereof) over the years, from the student, to the enthusiast, to the professional. It is written in a non-technical style, easily understood by the lay-person, and interesting enough to hold the attention of the techie.
The hook is the almost unbelievable number of isolated developments that served to hold back such a straightforward idea as e-books. As the original blurb goes:
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E-books. Electronic. Books.
Sounds like a simple concept, doesn’t it? So why has this simple concept taken so long to develop, when other forms of digital commerce and media have become modern sensations? Because of a series of events and forces acting against it that would seem too improbable to believe in a dime novel.
(Or maybe an e-book.)
If you want to know where e-books are going, it will help to know where e-books have been, and why they still seem to track mud on the floors wherever they go. This book sheds light on a perfect storm of publishers, corporations, professionals, amateurs, dogmas, movements and beliefs, all of which worked either unintentionally or deliberately to forestall the coming of the e-book for over two decades. And it details which of these elements is still going strong and continuing to hold back e-books. At last, you’ll learn how badly e-books have had the cards stacked against them, and why.
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Does that help?
Oh... might as well show you the current cover art: