What is e-publishing?
Since e-books first came out, most of the hype has died down, the venture capital money has dried up, many places are out of business and the whole e-book industry has taken on the appearance of a corner 3-card-Monte game. The trade publications dont seem to be pumping out any more glowing accounts of the e-book revolution any more probably because the advertising dollars have dried up – so why bother! I visited Book Expo America in Chicago in June. During those three days I had the opportunity to talk to many of the remaining players in the e-book arena. The company that I bought the original Stephen King e-novel from was still in business but was not selling to the consumer any more. They were only marketing their product to libraries. The people from Amazon.coms advantage program, who have always been good friends of the self-publisher, told me that they were only selling technical e-books. After a little prodding as to why, I managed to get the most honest answer of the day concern
