Wired

August, 1994

Read any Good Disks Lately?Instead of lugging hardcovers between Tokyo and Osaka, Japanese commuters are now reading books contained on floppy disks. NEC kicked off the trend with its Digital Book Player, a $500 device that resembles the personal digital assistants currently on sale in the States. A similar version in the works at Fujitsu will store books on credit-card-size memory cards. And while there's no word on when or if these products will arrive here, owners of Apple Newton Message Pads...