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February 10, 2010 | 5:25 pm
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By Paul Biba
Well, that’s quite a bit of news posted below. David has been an icon in the ebook industry and will be a pretty tough act for me to follow. Now on to a few matters you may be concerned about.
When discussing the ownership transfer, and my position position as Editor, with NAPCO over the past few weeks, one thing became abundantly clear. NAPCO values the way TeleRead has been written and its journalistic integrity and has no intention of changing this. If I thought they would then it wouldn’t be me writing this. I expect the future TeleRead to be just as outspoken and controversial as it has been in the past and all shades of opinion are not only welcome, but solicited. The more the merrier!
TeleRead has been, essentially, a non-profit enterprise and has been financed mainly out of David’s and my own pockets. I mention this because this has severely limited what we could do with the site. No in-person coverage of CES, for example. Even covering Digital Book World meant that I had to pay for my own hotel accommodations. Now, as part of a commercial enterprise, TeleRead has the possibility to grow in new directions. We will have access to a real IT department, for example, and so may be able to initiate some changes and expansions that David and I have talked about, but could never afford to implement.
As to the future, things will look the same here for some time, but changes will come as we all settle in. If you have any suggestions for the future let me know, either by sending me an email or posting here. I’ll also be happy to answer any questions in the comments section below.
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Wishing you the best, Paul. And yes—people should know of the many financial sacrifices you made for TeleRead. I’m immensely grateful for that as well as your rescue of the blog when I was out with my heart attack. Furthermore, you can Chris have been the ones supplying most of the posts for the past year. OK, carry on the good work!
Cheers,
David
Congratulations to David on a job well done, to Paul on a job well earned, and to NAPCO on a great acquisition!
A quick look at NAPCO’s web site suggests a heavily print-oriented organization. I’m curious as to their thinking for the future of their products and company focus, what they expect to gain from ownership of TeleRead, and the future of TeleRead as a device- and product-agnostic supporter of digital material.
Congratulations to all. Paul, I’m glad to know that we can continue to count on you and the other TeleRead bloggers for the tech coverage we need. Hope to see you again at next year’s Digital Book World.