On the Books in Browsers Moment

The Books in Browsers conference ran from 2010–2016; JEP published its proceedings in its heyday. In those days -- in the wake of the Kindle's launch and the new EPUB standard -- many of us were hugely enthusiastic about the open field of possibilities; Books in Browsers and JEP reflected much of that enthusiasm. The publishing world, however, unfolded in different ways that we'd imagined.