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Bookport is a WWW site offering page-by-page access to books (plus online ordering of bound books). There are no downloading delays, little disk space is needed, and the temptation of unauthorized redistribution is minimized. Page numbering matches that of bound copies, for unambiguous citations. . [Daniel Miles Kehoe , epub, 3/1/95. Dana B. Mackonis, freelance.]

UMichigan Press has started a WWW archive for the J. of Electronic Publishing, . It includes Philip Greenspun's essay on limitations of HTML and William Strong's essay on copyright, , complemented by the journal's own copyright notice. [Dean Blobaum , net-hap, 1/5/95.]

1995 may see a shakeout of multimedia CD ROM producers. Over 2,000 titles are competing, with 20% selling fewer than 11 copies in 12/94 and 5% selling only one copy (at Educorp?). [WSJ, 3/1/95, A1. EDUPAGE.]