First E-Book
April 03, 2003
In the boredom that occupied most of my last two days, I was browsing through pages and stumbled onto Nation States, a clever little web-based game where you create a country and run its government in the political style of your liking. I was reading through the whole page and it so happens that this game is a marketing ploy for a new book called Jennifer Government. I went over to the book’s page and read about it and plunged into the excerpt and was quite impressed. So impressed in fact, that I just bought the book, the e-book. This would make it the first e-book I have ever purchased, first book in Japan, and first online book purchase ever for me.
I was quite happy until the damn book crashed my palm two times. After a couple of resets (and one data restore), I think the book works. Turns out my old version of winzip was corrupting the file somehow (don’t ask me). I will be busy on the subway reading this book! Anyway, I haven’t gotten far but basically corporations run this world and everyone changes their family name to their corporation’s name. It takes awhile to clear out if they’re talking about THE company or if it’s just some guy who works there. Interesting idea – a review will come when I’m farther into it.
I had something else written yesterday but I fucking accidentally closed the browser because I had too many windows open and was ALT-F4′ing without due care. Rats.
