Alice LaPlante is an award-winning writer who has been writing about technology, and the business of technology, for more than 20 years. The former news editor of InfoWorld, and a contributing editor to ComputerWorld, InformationWeek, and other national publications, Alice was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and taught writing at Stanford for more than two decades. She is the author of six books, including Playing for Profit: How Digital Entertainment Is Making Big Business Out of Child's Play.