E-Book Self-Publishing and the Los Gatos Library: A Case Study

I first met Mark Coker of Smashwords in about 2010 just before the iPad came out and a little before Amazon started offering the Kindle format for libraries. One of our library pages, the people who shelve the books, said to me: “Hey, Henry, you’re into e-books. Do you know there is a major e-book p...

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1. Verfasser:	Henry Bankhead
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Anthropology Applied anthropology Arts Behavioral sciences Business Collaboration Collection development Collection management Communications Communications media Cultural anthropology Cultural institutions Digital media Digital publications Economic disciplines Economics Employment Human behavior Industrial sectors Industry Information professionals Information science Knowledge industries Labor economics Librarians Libraries Library collections Library management Library operations Library science Literature Occupations Publishing industry Self publishing Social behavior Social interaction Social sciences
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Zusammenfassung:	I first met Mark Coker of Smashwords in about 2010 just before the iPad came out and a little before Amazon started offering the Kindle format for libraries. One of our library pages, the people who shelve the books, said to me: “Hey, Henry, you’re into e-books. Do you know there is a major e-book publisher here in Los Gatos?” In response to my look of blank incomprehension, he told me about Smashwords. I then contacted Mark Coker who readily agreed to come to the library and do a presentation on e-books. Mark grew up in Los Gatos and had