Where to Find Literature on Disk
by Robert Kendall
copyright (c) 1995 by Poets & Writers, Inc.
Some electronic books are slowly making their way into bookstores, and software stores
often stock the wares of the larger publishers. You can order electronic books or
magazines from all of the publishers listed below.
Bureau of Electronic Publishing offers multimedia CD-ROMs
that include an inexpensive collection of the Classics and the complete works of Twain,
Dickens, and Shakespeare. [141 New Road, Parsippany, NJ 07054. (201) 808-2700.]
Chadwyck-Healey
publishes a pricey CD-ROM collection of the complete works of 1,350 British poets.
[1101 King Street, #380, Alexandria, VA 22314. (800) 752-0515; (703) 683-4890.]
ClariNet Communications puts out the Hugo and
Nebula Anthology 1993, a huge collection of science fiction on CD-ROM. [4880 Stevens
Creek Boulevard, #206, San Jose, CA 95129. (800) 673-3726; (408) 296-0366.]
Chatfield
Software publishes electronic multimedia poetry by Hale Chatfield, as well as
software for teaching poetry. [PO Box 115, Hiram, Ohio 44234. (216) 632-5447.]
Columbia
University Press publishes The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry, a CD-ROM
containing 10,000 poems. [136 S. Broadway, Irvington, NY 10533. (800) 944-8648; (914)
591-9111.]
Diskotech Software publishes
"computer video novels" on CD-ROM. [7930 State Line, #210, Prairie Village, KS
66208. (913) 432-8606.] e-mail
Eastgate Systems is
the leading publisher of interactive literature, offering hypertext novels, short fiction,
and poetry, as well as an electronic magazine, Eastgate Quarterly ($49.95 for four
issues). For writers interested in creating hypertext, Eastgate offers the popular
software program Storyspace. The company also sponsors symposia on hypertext several times
a year in different cities. [134 Main Street, Watertown, MA 02172. (800) 562-1638; (617)
924-9044.]
Floppyback Publishing
International offers novels, poetry collections, and a literary magazine on disk.
[346 Concord Avenue., Cambridge, MA 02138. (617) 492-3824.]
GRIST On-Line
publishes an electronic literary magazine, a kinetic visual poem by John Fowler, and books
of poetry on disk, including David Ignatow's Gleanings. It also operates a Bulletin
Board System (BBS) for poets. [Columbus Circle Sta., PO Box 20805, New York, NY 10023.
Phone: (212) 787-2861; BBS: (212) 787-6562.]
Hiram Poetry Review offers a disk of multimedia poetry once a year as a
supplement to the printed magazine. [PO Box 162, Hiram, OH 44234. (216) 569-5330.]
Hyperion SoftWord publishes Rod Willmot's hypertext poem Everglade,
as well as software for creating hypertext books. [535 Irene-Couture, Sherbrooke, PQ,
Canada J1L 1Y8. (819) 566-6296.] e-mail
The Little Magazine is put
out its 1995 issue on CD-ROM and its 1996 issue on the Web. Both issues include
interactive and multimedia work by a variety of poets and fiction writers. [Dept. of
English, University at Albany, Albany, NY 12222. (518) 442-4398.]
Necro Enema Amalgamated publishes the annual arts/literary
multimedia magazine BLAM! on CD-ROM. [c/o Distributed Art Publishers, 636 Broadway,
12th Floor, New York, NY 10012. (800) 338- 2665; (212) 473-5119.]
Postmodern
Culture is an electronic journal that often contains literature and criticism.
[Journals Department, Oxford University Press, 2001 Evans Road, Cary, NC 27513. (800)
852-7323; (919) 677-0977.]
Subscribing; obtaining back issues.
Red Deer College Press publishes bp nichol's First Screening, a
collection of kinetic visual poems. [56 Ave. and 32nd Street, Box 5005, Red Deer, Alberta,
Canada T4N 5H5]
Spectrum Press offers
nearly 300 books on disk, including fiction, poetry, drama, and criticism. The titles
include both reprints and original publications. [3023 N. Clark Street, #109, Chicago, IL
60657. (800) 606-1419; (312) 281-1419.]
Sunburst Communications will soon release In My Own
Voice, the first in a series of poetry CD-ROMs that include audio recordings of poets
reading their work. [101 Castleton Street, Pleasantville, NY 10570. (800) 321-7511; (914)
747-3310.]
Voyager Company
is one of the most active electronic publishers, offering among other things many novels
on disk and the multimedia CD-ROMs Poetry in Motion, American Poetry: The
Nineteenth Century, and MacBeth. [578 Broadway, #406, New York, NY 10012. (800)
446-2001; (212) 431-5199.]
Wellsweep
Press publishes John Cayley's interactive poetry and electronic versions of
translations from the Chinese. [1 Grove End House, 150 Highgate Road, London NW5 1PD,
United Kingdom. (0171) 267-3525.]
World Library offers inexpensive collections of the
classics on CD-ROM. [2809 Main Street, Irvine, CA 92714. (800) 443-0238; (714) 756-9500.]
Listings partially updated 10/3/96.
