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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