----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Noring" <jon@noring.name>

Finally, Mark Bernstein, the founder of Eastgate, which in 1987 issued several contemporary hypertext fiction ebooks on floppy disk and CD-ROM, mentioned to me Asimov's mid-50's book "Foundation" where ebooks are implicit. Has anyone read this book and can comment on Asimov's 1950's vision for ebooks?

Thanks!

Jon Noring

Asimov mentions "film-books" in many of his works, but it is unclear if they are film strips of text running through a special reader or some kind of interactive medium or perhaps a "moving pictures" version of books. I think he leaves it deliberately vague. NOTE: I'm pulling this from memory as I don't have any of my Asimov books here at work to flip through. Josh