“How My Battle Against Amazon’s Book Ban Exposed the Dark Side of Self-Publishing”
Shortly after 1981, my long-time best friend, fellow author, and fellow IBMer, Dennis Grimes, and I decided that we would write a book about the new IBM PC. Both Dennis and I were Senior Systems Engineers for the IBM Corporation at the time. We called the new book the Personal Computer Buyers Guide.
Ballinger Publishing flew us up to Cambridge Massachusetts where Mike Connolly, the President of the company, a division of publishing giant Harper & Row at the time, signed us for the book. Grimes and I kept at it after our first success. When Mike retired from Ballinger, he asked us if we had any other book ideas. The IBM PC was very new at the time and we came up with a very comprehensive set of PC books featuring the major PC players at the time.
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