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• Antonia T Tiger commented on Upcoming appearance: Frankfurt Book Fair
  I see that the actual virtual book has now changed, and dropped most of the videos. Things are not over yet, but so far I haven't seen anything that couldn't be done with HTML....
• Antonia T Tiger commented on Upcoming appearance: Frankfurt Book Fair
  The final part of my effort has been submitted, a little more than 4,300 words dancing around the modern world of very personal computing, crooks in business, and what ebooks could be for. What do you do with 20 billion Euro. How can you launder it? Maybe you lose it, knowing your competitor cannot afford to lose that much money keeping a business afloat....
• Antonia T Tiger commented on Upcoming appearance: Frankfurt Book Fair
  The website is now showing a lot of essays by the various named contributors named at the start of this event. I was probably off on completely the wrong track, but I'm left with a feeling that the invitation to "Contribute to the Book" was something of a hollow sham. I can't really see what, if anything, came from any outsider. The original video-heavy form of the ebook has been replaced by something text-heavy. Most of the media components have vanished. I doubt I was the only person on the outside of the scheme to submit material, but there's a...
• Antonia T Tiger commented on Upcoming appearance: Frankfurt Book Fair
  Something has happened. The ebook has turned into a huge download. Which keeps stalling at 92% Anybody got a Kindle or ePub version, I'm not fussy, but I have already seen one grossly oversized ebook file produced by professionals this year....
• Antonia T Tiger commented on Upcoming appearance: Frankfurt Book Fair
  I finally managed to get the thing downloaded. Charlie, for an outfit trying to look Beyond the Book, they did a bit better than Bamforth & Co were doing a hundred years ago, but their video did have the advantage of sound and colour. I am not sure that I can call what they did a book, and movies are such an ancient thing anyway. I wouldn't be surprised if you got more readers through this website, because somebody tipped off The Register. And, I reckon, you're ahead of the game already. I don't think the bunch who organised this...