Chapter 6
In true love you want your partner to be happy.
In false love you want your partner.
—Paulo Coelho
MoxWorld Auditorium
San Francisco, California
10:10 a.m. GMT-8, January 4, 2023
"The e-book is dead. And today, I have killed it."
Towering over the audience like the monstrous monarch he is, the giant man pauses to let the statement sink in. Billions remotely view the MoxMedia News coverage of this soon-to-be-historic launch, with thousands live in the auditorium and another several thousand present by hologram. MoxWorld emitters surround the auditorium, as do MoxSecurity nodules.
"Utter m*********r do I, Alexander Murometz, commit. Not only are e-books massacred today, but the print book joins them. Because everything you love about print books will now be in your tactile
