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Eastgate Systems is a publisher and software company headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, which publishes hypertext.[1]

Eastgate is a pioneer in hypertext publishing and electronic literature[2][3][4][5] and one of the best known publishers of hypertext fiction.[6] It publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry hypertexts by established authors with careers in print, as well as new authors. Its software tools include Storyspace, a hypertext system created by Jay David Bolter, Michael Joyce, and John B. Smith[7] in which much early hypertext fiction was written,[8] and Tinderbox,[9] a tool for managing notes and information. Storyspace was used in a project in Michigan to put judicial "bench books" into electronic form.[10] Eastgate's chief scientist, Mark Bernstein, is a well-known figure in hypertext research,[11] and has improved and extended Storyspace as well as developing new hypertext software.

History

Eastgate Systems was founded by Mark Bernstein in 1982 and developed hypertext tools.[12] Joyce and Bolter launched Storyspace in 1987, at the first annual Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) conference on Hypertext.[13] Joyce presented afternoon, a story as a case-study for the tool; the work is widely considered the first work of hypertext fiction[14] and was published by Eastgate in 1990.[15] In 1995, Eastgate published Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl.[16]

Robert Coover highlighted Eastgate as "the primary source for serious hypertext" in The New York Times Book Review in 1993,[17] a quote which still features prominently in Eastgate's tagline.[18] Between 1993-6, Eastgate published eight issues of The Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext.[19]

Product list

  • Tinderbox, a content assistant for managing, analyzing and mapping notes in a hypertextual environment.
  • Storyspace, a hypertext writing environment. Storyspace writing environment consists of boxes (nodes) and arrows (named links) that show connections between nodes.

Fiction works published by Eastgate

Non-fiction works published by Eastgate

  • Roderick Coover:Cultures in Webs
  • David Kolb: Socrates in the Labyrinth
  • Diane Greco: Cyborg, engineering the body electric
  • Eric Steinhart: Fragments of the Dionysian Body
  • George Landow: Writing at the Edge; The Dickens Web;
  • George Landow and Jon Lanestedt:The In Memoriam Web
  • Guiliano Franco: Quam Artem Exerceas

See also

Notes

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References

External links

  1. FAQ. Eastgate.com. Retrieved on 2013-07-28.
  2. Hypertext connects disparate data: extract a world of data, layer by layer by Henry Fersko-Weiss, March 1st, 1989, Lotus Publishing Corp. Quotes Mark Bernstein: "In the next five to ten years," says Eastgate Systems' Bernstein, "hypertext will determine the way programs interact with people."
  3. Gutermann, Jimmy, 'Hypertext Before the Web,' Chicago Tribune, April 8, 1999 ("Thanks to some successful early attempts at hypertext fiction that Eastgate published (most notably by Michael Joyce and Stuart Moulthrop) and a front-page Robert Coover essay in the "New York Times Book Review," Eastgate and Storyspace were closely associated with the emerging field of literary hypertext.")
  4. Coover, Robert, 'And Hypertext Is Only the Beginning. Watch Out!' New York Times Book Review, August 29, 1993 ("...the primary source for serious hypertext fictions today is Eastgate Systems, the New Directions of electronic publishing and the supplier of the popular Storyspace software in which most of the hypertext authors I know about have written.")
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  6. Murphy, Kim, 'Electronic Literature: Thinking Outside the Box,' Los Angeles Times, July 24, 2000; Zack, Ian, 'A Novel Approach to Literature,' The Roanoke Times, July 16, 1999.
  7. Landow, George P. (1992). Hypertext: the convergence of contemporary critical theory and technology. The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 40
  8. Strange fiction by Jimmy Guterman, 05.23.97, Forbes.
  9. Tinderbox 1.2: multipurpose app sparks, stores, and shares ideas., MacWorld, September 1, 2003.
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