For the most part, today's electronic publishers are "on" on-line services.
As of 2009, it drew from 35 print and electronic publishers in 28 countries.
With a staff of 15 employees who started last fall, the new electronic publisher will also offer condensed versions of print books.
He's an electronic publisher who sells for hundreds of dollars per copy a product that costs very little to produce.
The issues of "freedom of the press" for electronic publishers remained in legal limbo.
Even electronic publishers can be sniffy about novels on disc.
Prodigy officials said yesterday that they felt that the service was not a public forum, but rather an electronic publisher.
This made the files more difficult to pirate, addressing a key concern of early electronic publishers.
Even electronic publishers say the devices available for downloading e-books are at an early stage.
An unknown number of other writers have published their books through electronic publishers.