David Rothman

Biography

David H. Rothman is a former poverty beat reporter interested in digital and educational divide issues since the early 1990s. His TeleRead site is the oldest devoted to ebook news and views. David has appeared in Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Education Week, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Chronicle of Philanthropy, and the Washington Post. He is also author of The Silicon Jungle (Ballantine) and other books. As co-founder of the old OpenReader Consortium, he pushed for a common reflowable consumer format for ebooks—in effect helping to prod the International Digital Publishing Forum to create the ePub standard.