Why Is This Hill So Steep? by Steve Jordan is now available in multiple e-book formats, and (sing it with me!)
No DRM.
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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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If you know of anyone in the print or publishing industry, who could use some insight as to the issues facing e-books... or someone outside of the industry, who's just curious about e-books' history... this is the book to recommend to them. Written from the perspective of a man whose career made him part of the industry, even before it
was an industry!