| 51 | 51 | Sophie's either sixteen years in the making or about four depending on whether you go back to the beginning or not. The beginning was at The Voyager Company, an early electronic publisher (The Criterion Collection, Robert Winter's [http://blip.tv/file/462073/ CD-Companion Series], [http://blip.tv/file/462077/ Who Built America], Pedro Meyer's [http://blip.tv/file/462119/ I Photograph to Remember] and Laurie Anderson's [http://blip.tv/file/462115/ Puppet Motel] etc.). Back in 1992 Voyager released the Expanded Books Toolkit ([http://www.futureofthebook.org/motion/D_ADAMS.mov explained by Douglas Adams]) which enabled people to make simple e-books without any programming. The first three titles were Martin Gardner's [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393048470?ie=UTF8&tag=httpimparde-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393048470 Annotated Alice], Douglas Adams' trilogy [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345391802?ie=UTF8&tag=httpimparde-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0345391802 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] and [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345370775?ie=UTF8&tag=httpimparde-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0345370775 Jurassic Park] (before it came out in paperback). The second three were Marge Piercy's [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0449215571?ie=UTF8&tag=httpimparde-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0449215571 Gone to Soldiers], Susan Faludi's [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307345424?ie=UTF8&tag=httpimparde-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307345424 Backlash] and perhaps the first text-based "double-feature" which paired Neil Postman's [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/014303653X?ie=UTF8&tag=httpimparde-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=014303653X Amusing Ourselves] to Death with Aldous Huxley's [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060850523?ie=UTF8&tag=httpimparde-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060850523 Brave New World]. |
