ort."

Murray was among the first authors to add a website to his
books - an opportunity that many would soon adopt: "If a book
can be web-extended (living partly in cyberspace), then an
author can easily update and correct it, whereas otherwise the
author would have to wait a long time for the next edition, if
indeed a next edition ever came out. (...) I do not know if I
will publish books on the web - as opposed to publishing paper
books. Probably that will happen when books become multimedia.
(I currently am helping develop multimedia learning materials,
and it is a form of teaching that I like a lot - blending text,
movies, audio, graphics, and - when possible - interactivity)."

He added in August 1999: "In addition to 'web-extending' books,
we are now web-extending our multimedia (CD-ROM) products - to
update and enrich them."

In October 2000, "our company - EDVantage Software - has become
an internet company instead of a multimedia (CD-ROM) company.
We deliver educational material online to students and
teachers."

= The internet as a novel "character"

Alain Bron lives in Paris, France. He is a consultant in
information systems and a writer. The internet is one of the
"characters" of his second novel, "Sanguine sur toile"
(Sanguine on the web), available in print from Editions du
Choucas in 1999, and in PDF format from Editions 00h00 in 2000.

Alain wrote in November 1999: "In French, 'toile' means the web
as well as the canvas of a painting, and 'sanguine' is the red
chalk of a drawing as well as one of the adjectives derived
from blood ('sang' in French). But would a love of colors
justify a murder? 'Sanguine sur toile' is the strange story of
an internet surfer caught up in an upheaval inside his own
computer, which is being remotely operated by a very mysterious
person whose only aim is revenge. I wanted to take the reader
into the worlds of painting and enterprise, which intermingle,
escaping and meeting up again in the dazzle of software. The
reader is invited to try to untangle for himself the threads
twisted by passion alone. To penetrate the mystery, he will
have to answer many questions. Even with the world at his
fingertips, isn't the internet surfer the loneliest person in
the world? In view of the competition, what is the greatest
degree of violence possible in an enterprise these days? Does
painting tend to reflect the world or does it create another
one? I also wanted to show that im