D.C. Denison

D.C. Denison is a journalist and ebook experimentalist. I'm the former technology editor at The Boston Globe and the author of "As Seen on TV" (Fireside/Simon & Schuster), the latter of which is responsible for pushing me into ebooks.

Because the traditional book process was so... bad. Unsatisfying.

Not the writing part (and the modest advance from the publisher). Both of those: good.

But the deadening year-long lag before the book hit bookstore shelves, and the shotgun-style marketing that Simon & Schuster provided -- those were annoying, and ultimately self-defeating.

After the book made its predictable trip to the remainder bin, I was left thinking, "That was it?"

So... could ebooks offer a better way forward? That's what launched my experiments: creating ebooks, exploring what's possible when you leave print behind.

Since then my publishing company, ReadMat Publishing, has expanded into a global enterprise (well, my web designer lives in Ecuador, and the XML software I use is created and maintained in Romania).

My latest ebook, Your First Ebook, describes one chapter of my ebook journey in more detail, with many more detours. ReadMat's annual ebook, Ebook Publishers to Watch, was updated for 2013 in late November, 2012.

More info available at http://readmat.com.