Random House alum to write for TeleBlog
Roger Sperberg, an author and e-book pioneer who has worked for Random House, Conde Nast Publications and the Electronic Directions consulting firm, is the newest contributor to the TeleRead blog.
He is an important and much-cherished addition. TeleRead has always advocated a smooth transition from paper to electronic books, and that means the participation of people with traditional publishing industry experience–not just them but also them. Beyond that, he brings a wealth of technical knowledge about e-book standards. And best of all, rather than fixating on the past, he is looking ahead–as shown by his just-posted article on the Plucker display capabilities of the Nokia 770.
Roger has written about publishing and computers since 1980, for such magazines as GQ, PC, PC Week, PC World and Datapro Reports. His book Web Publishing with QuarkImmedia (co-authored with photographer Martha Leinroth) was an editor’s choice at Amazon in both desktop publishing and multimedia; his children’s book, Real Soon, Raccoon! (What to say after ‘See you, later, alligator’ and ‘After while, crocodile’)reached the number-two best-selling e-book at Barnes & Noble online.
He has presented papers on Topic Maps and RDF at the Extreme Markup, Open Publish and XML conferences and currently works as a consultant in semantic technologies for an international publisher. He was an early proponent of e-books, writing the now-defunct for.eWords column for eBookWeb, PocketNow and FictionForest. He contributes both to Teleread and to Electric Forest, a blog about books, digital libraries and technologies related to expressing and keeping track of our thoughts.
He advocates major changes in the copyright system and is an optimist regarding e-books, and a lover of books and type in general (he is the designer of various fonts, including CircleA, a monowidth font for dropcaps). He lives with his wife, the painter Jill Kimball, and two children outside New York City.
Welcome, Roger!
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