Acknowledgements

 

This is a book that is been 20 years in the mak­ing. I put up my first web­site at the end of 1994, and I was first intro­duced to audio in a web­page in 1995 at the press con­fer­ence in San Jose that announced RealAu­dio. Dur­ing the 10 years from 1995 until 2005 I wrote 21 books about Inter­net tech­nol­o­gy of one fla­vor or anoth­er for major pub­lish­ers. In doing so, I had the sup­port of my col­leagues and fel­low mem­bers of the North Bay Mul­ti­me­dia Asso­ci­a­tion (NBMA), the lead­ing web devel­op­ment asso­ci­a­tion in the San Fran­cis­co Bay Area for all those years. With the advent of the Dot Com bust in 2001, the Bay Area lost almost a half-mil­lion jobs, and mem­bers of the NBMA dis­persed both geo­graph­i­cal­ly and in their dig­i­tal spe­cial­ties. As a result, the NBMA became defunct to the cha­grin of those of us who con­tin­ue to do web­work. But we were a tight-knit group, and 14 years lat­er we’re still hav­ing annu­al par­ties of NBMA mem­bers to cel­e­brate that unique expe­ri­ence of being in the mid­dle of the Inter­net rev­o­lu­tion togeth­er for a decade. So I salute my fel­low NBMA mem­bers from whom I’ve learned a lot. And I’m look­ing for­ward to the next party.

Today I’m a mem­ber of the Bay Area Inde­pen­dent Pub­lish­ers Asso­ci­a­tion, one of the lead­ing inde­pen­dent pub­lish­ing asso­ci­a­tions in the US. I’m very hap­py to be a mem­ber of this group from which I can learn the com­plex­i­ties of dig­i­tal pub­lish­ing and pub­lish dig­i­tal books.

Final­ly, I would like to acknowl­edge the sup­port of my fam­i­ly Lani, Brook, and Tom­my in my pub­lish­ing efforts.

Joseph T. Sinclair
Sep­tem­ber 2018