On 11/03/14 05:56 PM, Rob Myers wrote: > On 11/03/14 09:54 AM, dave miller wrote: >> http://www.thebookseller.com/news/science-museum-display-james-novel.html >> >> "An electronic version of Peter James’ 1993 novel /Host/, which was >> published on two floppy discs, is to go on display in London’s Science >> Museum as the world’s first electronic novel. > > Almost certainly not: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Malloy > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afternoon,_a_story > > First electronic novel by a dead tree publisher? No: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanded_Books
There's also the first "Library Of The Future" disk for the Data Discman from 1991: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Discman I burnt a disk for the Discman the other year with some Cory Doctorow novels on. It's a shame there are no Russian sites with William Gibson novels texts, otherwise I'd have used those as well. > First *original* electronic novel by a dead tree publisher? - Rob. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
