a mess, chronologically organized for your convenience
I guess it is possible that Apple could acknowledge or make a formal announcement about this, but immediate product availability in January doesn’t make sense. My guess is that, like the iPhone, it will be announced 3-6 months before it is set to hit consumers so that Apple can file the proper operating permits with the FCC.
…the physical book really has had a 500-year run. It’s probably the most successful technology ever. It’s hard to come up with things that have had a longer run. If Gutenberg were alive today, he would recognize the physical book and know how to operate it immediately. Given how much change there has been everywhere else, what’s remarkable is how stable the book has been for so long. But no technology, not even one as elegant as the book, lasts forever.
Consider this quote from a high-ranking book publisher who should know better, “We must do everything in our power to uphold the value of our content against the downward pressures exerted by the marketplace and the perception that ‘digital’ means ‘cheap.’ …”
Hello?
“In Hollywood, they’re known as the Brown Mafia, the steady stream of talented writers coming out of Brown University and making it in film and television.”
Published in December of 1991, Voyager Expanded Books’ edition of Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park was one of the first electronic books to be published. It fit on a 1.4 MB floppy disk and was designed for Apple’s new PowerBook series of notebook computers.
System Requirements (from the back cover):
“Designed especially for Macintosh PowerBooks, or any Mac with a hard drive and large display (640 x 480 or greater). System 6.0.7 and Hypercard 2.1 (or later versions) Shipped on 1.4 MB high density floppy.”
