AS we approach 2014, I can't help but be amazed at how things have changed for me since I grasped my first e-book reader in my cold and sweaty hands seven years ago. (Cold, because I parted with four figures of cash that day, sweaty because I was so thrilled to finally be stepping into the new age of reading).
Back then, e-books were rare things and there were only a handful of places to buy them. Worse, there was no standard e-book format. And the idea of self-publishing a book as an e-book was the domain of tech geeks because the process was simply too complicated.