WA's early online entrepreneurs have proved resilient with the $30 million sale this year of part of Perth-based eBooks Corporation showing isolation is no barrier to online success.
STEPHEN Cole still remembers the moment he decided his future lay in electronic books – it was January 1 1997, and Mr Cole thought he would become a billionaire in six months.
Claremont-based online book company Ebooks Corporation has won two major supply contracts with companies in the publishing and book retailing industries.
WHILE the big players such as US book giant Barnes and Noble have left the digital literature market, Perth's eBooks is expanding its business into new areas.
