NEW YORKER sells 81 yr Achive on 80GB Drives

Submitted by Blake on September 5, 2006 - 9:45am
Topic: 
Electronic Publications

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."

Comments

Submitted by opaqueentity on September 5, 2006 - 1:27pm.

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.

Submitted by GregS* on September 5, 2006 - 2:06pm.

I wonder if anyone would try and circulate this?

Submitted by Chuck on September 5, 2006 - 2:09pm.

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

Submitted by Walt on September 5, 2006 - 7:19pm.

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).

Submitted by GregS* on September 5, 2006 - 8:44pm.

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.

Submitted by Anonymous Patron (not verified) on September 5, 2006 - 10:13pm.

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.

Submitted by Daniel on September 5, 2006 - 11:50pm.

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.

Submitted by jonsmith on September 6, 2006 - 1:08am.

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.