Why Is This Hill so Steep? by Steve Jordan

Steven Lyle Jordan · 12-03-2009, 10:27 PM

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.

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!

Katti's Cat · 12-03-2009, 10:57 PM

Nice work - and so fast.

Got the book on my Sony now - it just made it before I leave . It can either entertain me on the long 24 hours flight or put me to sleep (which I hope it won't).

But I will definately tell you which one of those two it was.

pholy · 12-03-2009, 11:49 PM

Oh boy! I was afraid you were taking it on vacation with you. I will start on it tomorrow for sure - since it's 23:48 right now...

dreams · 12-04-2009, 12:28 AM

That was fast, thank you, Steve. Downloaded and in my winter break TBR folder.

Stormchild · 12-04-2009, 05:07 AM

Nice one Steve. Thanks.

mazzeltjes · 12-04-2009, 06:15 AM

Looks interesting, can't wait to get home.

xianfox · 12-04-2009, 07:02 AM

I've been looking forward to this book. I've got a book to finish for a church committee I'm on, then a short book for a discussion club, but this one is on my list immediately after that.

I can't wait to read about your experience in the industry.

Steven Lyle Jordan · 12-04-2009, 07:04 AM

Dayam!

Not about the replies... I plugged the wrong cover size into the ePub version. I'll get that fixed today!

Correction: It's fixed now.

Beau · 12-04-2009, 12:58 PM

Someone send one to Steven Colbert...

Beau

Steven Lyle Jordan · 12-04-2009, 01:20 PM

Hey! Let him buy his own!

cbell · 12-04-2009, 04:40 PM

Steve Jordan, you are the man who knows ebooks!

Purchased and now it's No. 1 on my HPTBR list. (High priority to be read).

Actually, I can't wait and I've opened it on my monitor *shudder* and I've started reading it now... K, bye - must stop reading and transfer to eye-saving ebook reader.

Ea · 12-05-2009, 05:17 AM

Got it! Looking forward to reading it

xianfox · 01-19-2010, 11:17 PM

Just finished the book moments ago. Great insight into the publishing industry. For a little while I was almost feeling depressed at the state of eBooks, but Steve ends the book well providing a great deal of hope and anticipation for the future. I recommend this for anyone even remotely interested in eBooks; pro or con.

Katti's Cat · 01-20-2010, 02:46 AM

I thought I was going nuts - I KNEW I had downloaded the book before I left on holidays - but it's gooooone. Don't ask me where it went, it simply isn't on my reader. Darn, damit. No worries, will get it again and start reading asap (after I finished the Girl with the Dragon Tatoo).

12-04-2009, 07:04 AM	#8
Steven Lyle Jordan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,478 Karma: 5171130 Join Date: Jan 2006 Device: none	*Dayam!* Not about the replies... I plugged the wrong cover size into the ePub version. I'll get that fixed today! Correction: It's fixed now. Last edited by Steven Lyle Jordan; 12-04-2009 at 08:50 AM.

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12-03-2009, 10:57 PM	#2
Katti's Cat Wizard Posts: 2,259 Karma: 175640 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Brisbane Australia Device: Sony PRS-600	Nice work - and so fast. Got the book on my Sony now - it just made it before I leave . It can either entertain me on the long 24 hours flight or put me to sleep (which I hope it won't). But I will definately tell you which one of those two it was.

12-03-2009, 11:49 PM	#3
pholy Booklegger Posts: 1,801 Karma: 7999816 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Device: BeBook(1 & 2010), PEZ, PRS-505, Kobo BT, PRS-T1, Playbook, Kobo Touch	Oh boy! I was afraid you were taking it on vacation with you. I will start on it tomorrow for sure - since it's 23:48 right now...

12-04-2009, 12:28 AM	#4
dreams It's about the umbrella Posts: 25,112 Karma: 56250158 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Sony 505\| K Fire \| KK 3G+Wi-Fi \| iPhone 3Gs \|Vista 32-bit Hm Prem w/FF	That was fast, thank you, Steve. Downloaded and in my winter break TBR folder.

12-04-2009, 05:07 AM	#5
Stormchild Evangelist Posts: 466 Karma: 878943 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Cornwall UK Device: BeBook 1. BeBook Mini. BeBook Neo and Club. BeBook Live. BeeBook Pure.	Nice one Steve. Thanks.

12-04-2009, 06:15 AM	#6
mazzeltjes Addict Posts: 242 Karma: 177 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Amsterdam Device: sony 505	Looks interesting, can't wait to get home.

12-04-2009, 07:02 AM	#7
xianfox Ebook Addict Posts: 225 Karma: 2136 Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Appleton, Wisconsin, USA Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition	I've been looking forward to this book. I've got a book to finish for a church committee I'm on, then a short book for a discussion club, but this one is on my list immediately after that. I can't wait to read about your experience in the industry.

12-04-2009, 12:58 PM	#9
Beau Connoisseur Posts: 77 Karma: 132 Join Date: Jul 2007 Device: Sony 700, ipod Touch, iphone, Galaxy Tab	Someone send one to Steven Colbert... Beau

12-04-2009, 01:20 PM	#10
Steven Lyle Jordan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,478 Karma: 5171130 Join Date: Jan 2006 Device: none	Hey! Let him buy his own!

12-04-2009, 04:40 PM	#11
cbell Frenetic Posts: 590 Karma: 8181 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Australia Device: iLiad V2	Steve Jordan, you are the man who knows ebooks! Purchased and now it's No. 1 on my HPTBR list. (High priority to be read). Actually, I can't wait and I've opened it on my monitor shudder and I've started reading it now... K, bye - must stop reading and transfer to eye-saving ebook reader.

12-05-2009, 05:17 AM	#12
Ea Wizard Posts: 3,490 Karma: 5239563 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Denmark Device: Kindle 3\|iPad air\|iPhone 4S	Got it! Looking forward to reading it

01-19-2010, 11:17 PM	#13
xianfox Ebook Addict Posts: 225 Karma: 2136 Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Appleton, Wisconsin, USA Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition	Just finished the book moments ago. Great insight into the publishing industry. For a little while I was almost feeling depressed at the state of eBooks, but Steve ends the book well providing a great deal of hope and anticipation for the future. I recommend this for anyone even remotely interested in eBooks; pro or con.

01-20-2010, 02:46 AM	#14
Katti's Cat Wizard Posts: 2,259 Karma: 175640 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Brisbane Australia Device: Sony PRS-600	I thought I was going nuts - I KNEW I had downloaded the book before I left on holidays - but it's gooooone. Don't ask me where it went, it simply isn't on my reader. Darn, damit. No worries, will get it again and start reading asap (after I finished the Girl with the Dragon Tatoo).