Update: Since posting this Monday afternoon, Amazon has sold out of its copies of this book but some used copies are still available. The book appears to be available from other online booksellers, however, and if anyone is interested in a signed copy, please contact me and I’ll get one to you.
Twenty-five years ago next week, my first book, E-vangelism: Sharing the Gospel in Cyberspace, rolled off the presses of a Christian publishing house in Lafayette, Louisiana, and was shipped to Christian bookstores and, on April 1 of that year, an online bookseller known as Amazon.com.
It was 1999, the year synonymous with a 1982 hit record by Prince. That spring also saw the release of The Matrix in movie houses, the expansion of NATO in Eastern Europe, and the debut of SpongebobSquarepants on Nickelodeon. It was the spring of the Columbine massacre. It was the year Amazon broke the $1 billion mark in revenues for the first time and expanded their product line by introducing an ebook reader called the Kindle and a smart speaker called the Echo, which was used with the company’s Alexa personal assistant system.
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