Tag Archive | 1991-1995 dpublishing
Project SQUAWK
In 1993 I wrote in the online ASCII magazine Grist about this thing I called Knowledge Central. All books would be deposited in a electronic central repository and then: With a hand-held communicator connected to KC over a 14,000 baud internal radio modem anyone anywhere in the world, from the hottest desert to the deepest [...]
digital publishing 1991-1995
On June 9 1991 the little box ad shown here appeared in The New York Times Book Review. Well, the We in the ad was, in fact, Me. and so began a five year pioneering adventure in what was then called “electronic publishing.” Highlights included a catalog of about thirty electronic books in 1993 (including [...]