NEW YORKER sells 81 yr Achive on 80GB Drives

Search Engine WEB writes “In one of the first digital publishing initiatives of its kind, we are proud to announce the release of The New Yorker’s entire archive, February, 1925 — April, 2006, on a palm-sized portable hard drive. Over 4,000 issues on an 3″ x 5″ 80G drive.”

September 5, 2006 by Blake Uncategorized 8

opaqueentity says:

September 5, 2006 at 5:27 pm

Sounds like a nice idea
But I wonder what the rights issues would be like. In that are you allowed to back it all up onto DVD in case the drive fails? That sort of thing.

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GregS* says:

September 5, 2006 at 6:06 pm

checkoutable?
I wonder if anyone would try and circulate this?

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Chuck says:

September 5, 2006 at 6:09 pm

great
81 years worth of cartoons you have to pretend you get … RIGHT AT YOUR FINGERTIPS!

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Walt says:

September 5, 2006 at 11:19 pm

What’s really new here?
For $63, you can buy the same thing on DVD (admittedly, lacking March 2005 through April 2006). Is switching DVDs really so inconvenient as to justify an extra $236, or does the hard drive offer other features?

I’d be surprised if some libraries aren’t already circulating the book+DVD set (according to worldcat.org, one of Palo Alto City Library’s two copies is checked out, but it’s not clear whether that’s the book *and* DVD set or just the book–assuming they’re separable).

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GregS* says:

September 6, 2006 at 12:44 am

Re:What’s really new here?
Didn’t know about the DVDs (there is a supplemental DVD also for $20).

As far as libraries go, the drive is more expensive but I would hope less likely to be damaged.

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Anonymous Patron says:

September 6, 2006 at 2:13 am

Re:great
The only thing I can say about the New Yorker cartoons is that’s where the Addams Family got their start. And damned if I’m not a huge fan of the show. The cartoons were quite good, but the show was much better.

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Daniel says:

September 6, 2006 at 3:50 am

Re:What’s really new here?
Don’t the hard drives sport a much faster access speed than optical media? Or is that not as true these days.

Of course, if I already had the DVDs, I wouldn’t think the faster loading times (if any) would justify buying the set again.

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jonsmith says:

September 6, 2006 at 5:08 am

Re:Sounds like a nice idea
This would be much more useful to a library as an internal HD rather than external USB. Serve the entire archive up over a network so that multiple users can access it.

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