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Electronic Books/Booklink
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lanestedt)
Tue Jul 21 09:24:54 1992
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 08:15:58 CDT
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu>
From: Jon Lanestedt <jonar@ulrik.uio.no>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu>
Please respond directly to the author, not PACS-L. Thanks, Dana
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Two articles discussing electronic books in general and the Voyager
Expanded Books series in particular (John Markoff: "Is The Electronic Book
Closer Than You Think?", New York Times, December 29 1991, and Elizabeth
Venant: "Book Bytes: Are You Ready to Curl Up With a Good Computer
Screen?", Los Angeles Times January 15 1992) refer to a company in Florida
called Booklink. According to the articles this company is working on a
device called Bookmark, a small computer which will provide reading
facilities for electronic books purchased from a ATM-like machine and
stored on a small plastic memory card the size of a credit card, for
insertion into the Bookmark reader. The "ATMs" will be installed in places
like bookstores, video rental and copy centers. Does somebody out there
happen to know the email or fax address to Booklink?
Jon Lanestedt
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Jon Lanestedt
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University of Oslo Tel: +47-2-855761
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