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...failed, wipe-on hair cleanser. Case couldn't hack the glacial pace at P&G. So in 1983, after an introduction from brother Dan, he jumped to a start-up called Control Video Corp., which was perfecting the "can't lose" idea of shilling TV-top boxes that would download and play video games over telephone lines. The idea bombed. But a bit of financial legerdemain turned the firm into Quantum Computer Services, which ran an online network for Commodore 64 computer users, and Case stuck around...
...build an online questionnaire; they can choose respondents from 25 demographic groups, decide on a sample size and price, and pay by credit card. InsightExpress then attracts respondents through banner ads posted on appropriate websites. Within a day or two, everyone will have replied, allowing the clients to download the data--all nicely tabulated and graphically presented...
...Shapiro decided to find her own audience. In June 1998 she set up a website to sell a download of her book for $12.95, under the pseudonym M.J. Rose. Then she began offering a printed version. Lip Service sold 1,500 copies online, and was picked up by the Doubleday Book Club and Literary Guild. It went on to sell more than 12,000 hard copies by September, and Shapiro became the poster girl for a new phenomenon--e-publishing as a cottage industry...
...Childers' submission, The Best Laid Plans, was accepted within weeks and went on sale in January 1999. She became probably the top-selling e-author in the U.S.--and possibly the world--by selling more than 6,000 copies of The Best Laid Plans at $3.50 for a download and $6.50 for a CD. Since then, she has churned out five kids' titles and nine adult books...
...them interesting. The TV Phone, which goes on sale in Korea later this year and could hit the U.S. in 2001, uses a collapsible antenna to display the soaps, soccer games and sitcoms on its tiny, 1.8-in. color screen. The MP3 Phone, due out by year-end, will download and play digital songs. It connects to a PC via serial cable to download music into its embedded memory...