Comments on: TeleRead sold to North American Publishing Company—but you’ll still see familiar bylines except for mine

By: Ed Howdershelt

Ed Howdershelt — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:01:23 +0000

Thanks for Teleread, David.
It was a good idea at a good time and I hope it grows from here.

Also many thanks for the pleasant surprise of ‘Feed Ed’s Cats’ and other mentions.
Hope you’re doing well,
Ed

By: Michael Pastore

Michael Pastore — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:37:25 +0000

David, thanks for all you’ve done; congratulations on the sale; and best wishes in your new endeavors.

I’m sure that you are very pleased to be able to pass the torch to the excellent hands of Paul and Chris.

Michael Pastore
50 Benefits of Ebooks

By: Spider Mattheson

Spider Mattheson — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:04:48 +0000

Wow. This news actually makes me a little sad. Philosophically and politically we agreed on almost nothing but I’ll be damned if you didn’t put together great e-book news site. Congratulations and good luck. I know Paul will do a great job carrying this site into the future.

By: Brad Enslen

Brad Enslen — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:12:03 +0000

Farewell David, congratulations on the sale but rest assured you will be missed. However, I am glad that Teleread will continue on and in good hands.

Thanks for all that years when Teleread was one of the very few reliable sources for ebook news.

By: Garson O'Toole

Garson O'Toole — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:01:38 +0000

David, for many years your vision of a comprehensive library of ebooks accessible to all was the magnificent dream espoused by TeleRead. As a commenter and occasional article writer on TeleRead I was attracted by that realizable dream. Congratulations on creating TeleRead and building it into one of the most important resources on the net for news and commentary about ebooks.

Thanks for your herculean efforts to make the world of ebooks better for all. Good luck with all your future endeavors.

By: Mark Coker

Mark Coker — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:52:37 +0000

Congratulations, David! This is wonderful news. Thank you for your great contribution to the past, present and future of ebooks. Back when I was creating my business plan 2005-2007, Teleread was my primary starting point for industry research and inspiration. It remains today one of my favorite sources for industry news and trends, and it’s so great to hear that both Paul and Chris will continue on. You were also among the first three people I invited to set eyes on a pre-launch early alpha of Smashwords in January 2008 (Joe Wikert and Eoin Purcell were the other two). I recall your advice was, “You have too many bugs to launch in two weeks – do a private beta testing period first.” I’m glad I listened. Wishing you the very best of health and happiness as you pursue your next adventures.

By: Rita Toews

Rita Toews — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:28:36 +0000

David, you’ve earned the luxury of more reading and more writing – enjoy it to the max. You’ve left Teleread in capable hands with Paul and Chris and a host of other excellent contributors. But please, don’t be a stranger to posting your views.

All the best in the future!

Rita

By: pond

pond — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:40:24 +0000

Thanks David for creating this site, which I consider still as *the* ebook forum since the yahoo ebooks group withered on the vine. Enjoy your workouts, your reading, and your writing.

If there’s one thing I’d like to see from you in future, it’s something with more of a focus on your original dream: ebooks for students, the universal library for schools and academics, the basis of study and culture going forward, in the cloud and on all our devices portable and not. In covering the exciting developments in the ebook device world ever since eink hit the big time with the Kindle, the notion of the universal free library for students has gone into the background, only appearing in very-occasional posts.

It would be nice if you could set up some site dedicated to this one idea again, and build it up with some occasional posts.

Best of luck to you. I’ll miss you too.

pond

By: eReaderPlanet

eReaderPlanet — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:35:30 +0000

Congrats on the sale of TeleRead and best of luck in with your future endeavors!

By: Mike Cook

Mike Cook — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:39:58 +0000

It’s always a bit scary when these buyouts happen (remember WOWIO?) but hopefully the new bosses will, as Andrea says, allow TeleRead to “maintain its refreshing independence.”

Paul, Chris and the other contributors are producing some fantastic articles so I think we’ll be in safe hands

You’ll be dearly missed David, that is for certain!

Mike

By: Michael Cairns

Michael Cairns — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:46:40 +0000

David,
It was my pleasure to help you out and I am so happy this has turned out so well. Best wishes to you and as others have said I hope we hear from you occasionally.

Michael

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:13:27 +0000

David, you will be missed. Do come back occasionally and contribute, as you indicated you might do. Keep up the cardio exercise and and read LOTS of books. I’m glad you will have more time to do both of those. Le chaim!

As to Paul and Chris, I always look forward to what you have to say. Recently I was so impressed with Chris’s post, The Amazon/Macmillan blow-up: An e-book lover’s appeal for understanding. It brought forth the best dialog I have seen thus far on the topic.

By: Richard Herley

Richard Herley — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:37:29 +0000

Congratulations and may TeleRead go from strength to strength! Some serious resources now are just what the doctor ordered: the e-publishing community owes a debt of gratitude to the whole team, but especially of course to David, for their energy and dedication. I’m especially grateful to David and Paul for their kindness and support.

And David — good luck with the new book!

By: Eoin Purcell

Eoin Purcell — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:40:09 +0000

Congrats folks,
Dedicated and passion for a topic, plus good content pays off!
All the best,
Eoin

By: Fernando Neubaum

Fernando Neubaum — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:07:04 +0000

I think it was 2005 when I started searching for information about e-books, and my main concern was that it seemed that everybody was aiming for closed e-readers with closed e-books inside them. Then I found TeleRead with their support for open standards and non DRM’d e-books; and I felt at home.

Nowadays everybody is talking about ebooks and related stuff because it’s fashionable, but not so long ago it wasn’t easy to find information about these subjects on the Internet. As far as I know, David was one of the first not limiting himself to the novelty of reading off a screen; he thought about the possibilities and how these e-books should reach people.
You and the Teleread contributors have provided this publisher with lots of information and food for the thought from like-minded people, and for that I thank you deeply and wish you all the very best in this new phase.