Publishing on the Moon:
On this day in 1994, Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com. As an author, publisher
and disabled shopper, I thank him. I’ve been with Amazon for over 20 years now,
and they reminded me of that with a gift recently. I recall my resistance to using my credit
card online—but I believe in the beginning I could call and give my card over
the phone. Jeff Bezos had said back then,
he wanted the biggest bookstore in the world.
It reminds me of the publishing contract Don Pendleton had with the late
New York publisher,
Donald I. Fine, which included Fine’s publishing rights on the Moon. (Don and I laughed, at the time) Maybe that is what Bezos is working toward
with his space program. After all, Jeff
Bezos is a visionary, and thank goodness, he is. I never could have published 78 books, and also
foreign language books at foreign Amazons—without Jeff Bezos’ vision.
~Linda Pendleton
