Comments on: What Books Were We Reading in 1995?

By: Kevin A. Lewis

Kevin A. Lewis — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:41:02 +0000

Sorry to intrude about another blogger, but what’s up with the sudden disappearance of Rose Fox? She posted this slightly odd piece about tension in the pub industry and then… blank space the next day. PW’s blogspace is sparse enough without losing another, and she was one of the better ones; should we send out a search party?

By: Kate Heyhoe

Kate Heyhoe — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 03:53:10 +0000

In 1994, my husband and I cofounded the first food/cooking website, which is now GlobalGourmet.com. I sold the first food web ad to a Madison Ave agency, who bought a Kikkoman banner ad (most agencies had never heard of the WWW); it made headlines in AdAge. In 1995, Steve Case was in charge of AOL; we became part of AOL’s prestigious Greenhouse Program of “infopreneurs” and that led to book deals. Compuserve was a big player (RIP), and 1995 was a cultural tipping point: DVD’s arrived, Nokia intro’d a hybrid PDA-smartphone device; just 5 years earlier the human genome project began, and in 1997, Red Bull entered the US market. @KateHeyhoe

By: Kevin A. Lewis

Kevin A. Lewis — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:08:20 +0000

Wow, back when MTV actually played music, America still had talent and an economy?! When Borders was too big to fail and I was a deckhand on the forward bow? Excuse me, I’ve gotta go lie down now…………..