Free E-book Reader
Free Sophie E-book Reader Updated
Latest Release Comes With 10 Free E-Books
Portland, Oregon, 30th March 2005
Rivertext.com is pleased to announce the release of the latest version
of the Sophie e-book reader. This new version makes Sophie fully
compatible with Mac OS X as well as Windows XP and it now comes with 10
free e-books. The latest e-book is the basis for the Steven Spielberg
and Tom Cruise science fiction blockbuster film that will be in
theaters this summer. Macintosh and Windows versions can be downloaded
now from http://www.fourthworld.com/products/sophie/download.html
The introduction to the latest Sophie e-book, H.G. Wells' "The War of
the Worlds," will provide its readers with a very interesting
perspective on Steven Spielberg's adaptation of this classic. Although
H.G. Wells' masterpiece was written more than one hundred years ago to
condemn (among other things) British imperialism, it is surprisingly
relevant to this new century in which America's leaders believe that
they reign supreme. All the Sophie e-books come with provocative
introductions.
Two of the e-books, "JFK Witness" and Thoreau's "Walden," also come
with their own guided tours. The "Walden" tour is perfect for anyone
who wants to take a quick stroll around Walden Pond, or who happens to
have a paper on "Walden" due the next morning. The tours were created
with the Sophie notebook tool. This tool allows users to create and
share with others their own indexed and commented "readings" of
important texts. "JFK Witness" offers a guided tour to unedited
testimony from all the key Warren Commission witnesses to the
assassination of President Kennedy, plus over 100 photographs of
exhibits presented in those hearings. Sophie's search feature is
especially useful to readers of "JFK Witness." It lists the chapter and
the phrase in which a search string occurs.
The rest of the e-books included in the download are: Joseph Conrad's
"The Heart of Darkness," two books by G.K. Chesterton "The Man who was
Thursday," and "The Innocence of Father Brown," Thomas a Kempis'
"Imitatio Christi," "Pencil and Poison - Selected Prose of Oscar
Wilde," Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," and Robert Louis
Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde."
Sophie was developed by Rivertext.com and Fourth World Media
Corporation Inc. for the legendary multimedia CD-ROM "If Monks Had
Macs." This CD-ROM with its games, intellectual tools and richly
illustrated multimedia is available directly from Rivertext.com.
Version 1.02 of Sophie is fully compatible with Macintosh OS 9, or OS X
and it runs on Windows 95 and later. Sophie was built with Revolution
from Runtime Revolution - http://www.runrev.com/
To download Sophie:
http://www.fourthworld.com/products/sophie/download.html
For more information about "If Monks had Macs":
http://rivertext.com/monks.html
About Rivertext Software
Rivertext was founded by Brian Thomas and is based in Portland, Oregon.
Since 1986 Rivertext been mixing art & ideas and is the publisher
of the highly praised "If Monks had Macs." For more information on
Rivertext, please visit the company on the web at http://www.rivertext.com/.
Inquiries regarding Sophie can be made by contacting sophie@rivertext.com