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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 08:24:58 -0400
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From: Robert Hettinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DCSB: Gerald Gold; Internet Content -- Stories from the Front
Cc: Gerald Gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warren Agin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Rodney Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Muni Savyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Elias Israel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Suzan Dionne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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The Digital Commerce Society of Boston
Presents
Gerald Gold
Vice President,
eCommerce Application Development
Peanut Press
Internet Content: Stories from the Front
Tuesday, October 5th, 1999
12 - 2 PM
The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston
One Federal Street, Boston, MA
Are people willing to spend money to download an electronic file that
contains the text of a novel? Are book publishers willing to risk piracy
by offering their products in electronic format for sale via the web?
What does geography have to do with selling ebooks online?
Practical answers to these questions (and many others) had to be found
in order to build peanutpress.com: the world's premier provider of
ebooks from publishers' front lists, designed to be read on PDAs (such
as Palm connected organizers).
The discussion will focus on real world issues that surround the
interesting complexities of building an online store that creates,
sells, and delivers electronic books.
Gerald Gold has been working with text since he was a toddler. From
about the age of two, the alphabet held a particular fascination.
Numbers weren't far behind; arithmetic and then logic soon occupied a
significant part of his daily thinking. Since 1994 Gerald has been
developing web sites.
What better venue is there than programming for the World Wide Web in
which to share a passion for managing, manipulating, and
processing text and numbers?
This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held
on Tuesday, October 5, 1999, from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of
the Harvard Club of Boston, on One Federal Street. The price for
lunch is $35.00. This price includes lunch, room rental, various A/V
hardware, and the speakers' lunch. The Harvard Club *does* have
dress code: jackets and ties for men (and no sneakers or jeans), and
"appropriate business attire" (whatever that means), for women. Fair
warning: since we purchase these luncheons in advance, we will be
unable to refund the price of your lunch if the Club finds you in
violation of the dress code.
We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we
*really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of
Boston", by Saturday, September 2nd, or you won't be on the list for
lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston
will have to be sent back.
Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston,
Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The
Harvard Club of Boston", in the amount of $35.00. Please include your
e-mail address so that we can send you a confirmation
If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements
(We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for
instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can
work something out.
Upcoming speakers for DCSB are:
November Warren Agin Secured Internet Lending
December Rodney Thayer Cryptographic Transnationality
January Elias Israel The Libertarians and Digital Commerce
February Suzan Dionne The Law of Digital Cash
We are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston
on the first Tuesday of the month, and you are a principal in digital
commerce, and would like to make a presentation to the Society,
please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Committee, care of Robert
Hettinga, <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston,
send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to <mailto:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . If you want to subscribe to the DCSB e-mail
list, send "subscribe dcsb" in the body of a message to <mailto:
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We look forward to seeing you there!
Cheers,
Robert Hettinga
Moderator,
The Digital Commerce Society of Boston
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"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
