Back around the turn of the century Alexandria Digital Literature was one of the first serious e-book publishers, known partly for its exceptional recommendation engine -- rate stories you've already read, and Hypatia, the librarian, by comparing your ratings to the thousands of other users, would recommend stories you'd probably like. She was surprisingly successful, much more so than, say, Amazon's recommendations of the time.

Unfortunately, Alexandria's economic model was much less successful; ebooks were not yet a viable market in those pre-Kindle days, and AlexLit folded many years ago. The company was reconstituted for a time as the Seattle Book Company, but that evolved into a publishing services company that no longer has any connection with their past as an e-book publisher.

There are multiple organizations out there using the name "Alexandria Digital Library." They have no connection to the AlexLit that was.

This page still exists for two reasons:

1. I never like to eliminate any page once I've created it, and
2. I like the graphics.

But AlexLit is gone and largely forgotten.