Stable Strategies and Others

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You could ask why it took so long: Michael Hart invented the first electronic book in 1971 and, forty years later, writers and publishers all over the world are still trying to master the form.

The answer, I think, lies in the fact that books are more than just words. What books look like and feel like is vitally important, and has been so since the time of clay tablets and papyrus scrolls. The printed books that we read now have evolved over hundreds of years, achieving a Cambrian diversity of form.

Ebooks are not yet so highly evolved, which, no doubt, is why many are a bit awkward-looking. We have an idea of how books are supposed to look and function, but we haven’t yet got the technology for easily implementing that idea in electronic form.

Which brings me to why it’s taken so long to create the digital version of Stable Strategies and Others. I’ve had a plan for implementing optimal ebook design that has taken some thirty years to effect. It is admirably simple: marry a superb book designer and get him to design my books, physical and virtual. So far, it’s working. Thank you, John D. Berry!

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