Wonderful! As a librarian, this thrills me.



Book Description
In the fall of 2007 Rolling Stone magazine, the #1 music and culture magazine in the country, will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a one of kind DVD and companion book box set - Rolling Stone, The First 40 Years. The pages of Rolling Stone are the illustrated history of rock-n-roll, pop and counter-culture. Every page of every issue is presented in this affordable complete searchable digital archive. From John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Eric Clapton to Gwen Stefani, Greenday, Inxs, The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Eminem - its all here. Every article, photo and contribution by Robert Altman, Cameron Crowe, Kurt Loder, Hunter S. Thompson, Annie Leibovitz, Lester Bangs, David LaChapelle and Anthony DeCurtis is included in its entirety.

From the Publisher
Mac and PC compatible searchable software archive. One of a kind package contains searchable digital editions of every page of every issue ever published during the magazines celebrated 40-year history, all accessible with user-friendly Mac or Window compatible software platform.

Over 1,000 issues, over 115,000 pages presented exactly as they were in the print release. Every article, interview, photo, and cover as well as every book and movie review published during first 40 years.

Box set includes a 200 page Companion Book. This star-studded behind-the-scenes book goes up close and personal, covering the highlights of Rolling Stone's celebrated history, its interaction with virtually every major musical and cultural personality, complete with a forward by the enigmatic maverick founder, Jann Wenner, who continues to edit the magazine to this day.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0979526108/?tag=imwan-20

Also make note of this softcover book being published on November 1st:

[bigred]The Rolling Stone Interviews[/bigred]
[lilred]edited by Jann S. Wenner and Joe Levy[/lilred]



Book Description
The Rolling Stone interview was the centerpiece of the most important American magazine of its generation. It wasand continues to be todaythe imprimatur of true cultural importance, the place where our heroes, idols, and stars unveil their true selves as nowhere else. Indeed, Lennon, Dylan, Clapton, Springsteen, Madonna, Bono, Eminem, Gore, Tutu, Eastwood, Scorsese, Kubrick, Brando, Nicholson, and countless others revealed the secrets behind their art and their lives in Rolling Stone's pages. And now, for the first time ever, the very best interviews from the magazine's remarkable 40-year history have been collected in a single volume. All of the biggest and most important musicians, writers, political figures, and directors are herecompletely unafraid to bare their souls and comment candidly on the issues of their day. The Rolling Stone Interviews is more than a collection; it's a marvelous cultural history.

About the Author
Jann Wenner is the founder, owner, and editor of Rolling Stone magazine. He is also the head of Wenner Media. He lives in Manhattan. Joe Levy is the Executive Editor of Rolling Stone.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0316005266/?tag=imwan-20

The second one interests me more. Reminds me of the thick 20th anniversary issue.

This I've been waiting for................looking forward to it..............M.

Yeah, right. Ten years from now they're going to update it and I'm gonna have to buy the whole thing all over again.

No thank you.

Creem, Circus, ZigZag, NME, Melody Maker, Trouser Press, Sounds, Crawdaddy, New York Rocker should all be releasing compendiums.

Or this: http://www.rocksbackpages.com

Too bad it's not Mojo.

Hi People,
Barnes&Noble.com has slashed the price of this baby radically. You can get it for $24.98. With shipping it only comes out to a little more than $28.00. What will really make your eyes pop out is that they are selling, at the same price, the Playboy Complete '50's Issues Archive as well. You'll be saving over $70.00 each on these. Which one did I put in for? Well, I dearly love music, but you must know that I would only sacrifice music to one thing. I bought the Playboy one. Well, there's Jazz articles in them too, you know! LOL! I hope this will be the case when they someday do the '60s and '70s issues.

Already Gone.
Darn.

The very first issue of Playboy has an article on the Dorsey Brothers.

(A reprint of the first issue was included in the DVD-ROM set. You can also get it directly from Playboy, price $25.00 plus shipping. Doesn't sound like such a good deal in comparison to the new lower prices for the whole package with the DVDs, but if they're no longer available you've still got this option, at least for the reprint. )

The Rolling Stone offer is back!
24.98!!!

Damn, I bought it for 62.99 from Amazon.com

Amazon now has that [lilred]1950s Playboy Digital Archive[/lilred] package on supersale for $25.09 (75% off):





What do Marilyn Monroe, Bettie Page, Jayne Mansfield and Brigitte Bardot have in common? They are the most alluring sex symbols of all time--and they all graced the pages of Playboy in the 1950s. But Playboy wasn't only about beautiful women--it featured serious literature by equally serious writers like Hemingway, Kerouac, Bradbury, and Steinbeck.

Playboy Cover to Cover--the 50s brings the magazine's entire groundbreaking first decade--every issue, every page, cover to cover--into one searchable digital archive.

This exclusive box set features the Bondi Reader, powerful MAC or PC browsing software that allows you to explore, search, save and arrange multiple reading lists. Every story, feature and interview, and of course every Playmate, can be located in seconds, and then compiled and cross-referenced however you choose. Playboy Cover to Cover--the 50s also comes with a 224–page companion coffee table book chronicling the behind-the- scenes history of Playboy and filled with never-before-published letters, photos, and contact sheets of Playboy’s amazing first decade. A collector's edition reissue of the extremely rare first issue--featuring Marilyn Monroe's breathtaking cover and pictorial--is included as a special bonus. This essential collection is a must for lifelong fans and subscribers of Playboy, nostalgia seekers, history and culture buffs, as well as all lovers of beautiful women.

• Easy to use and searchable digital archive with every issue, every page (even the ads!) of Playboy from the 1950s on 2 DVD-ROMs
• Includes the powerful Bondi Reader and search engine (Mac or PC). Find and read any award winning cover story, interview, photo or review in seconds
• The browse-by-cover feature lets you visually locate any issue by its cover--simply click the cover and the issue opens to read
• Custom reading lists let you organize the collection any way you want

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0979526116/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon's price for the Playboy set has dropped to 76% off now, reduced to $23.84.

Amazon has reduced the Playboy set further, to an even $20.00 (80% off):

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0979526116/?tag=imwan-20

While I was pleased to pick up this box on the cheap at Barnes & Noble, I hope that all of this heavy discounting isn't an indication that the set was a failure, and that this will be the only decade of Playboy compiled in this manner.

Both the Rolling Stone and Playboy digital archives have again been put on supersale by Amazon ~ not quite as good as the last sale, but still 60% off which is a lot of money saved. Follow the links earlier in the thread to take advantage of the deals.

Okay, I'm sold on both, hope I can figure out how to install that Bondi Reader & search engine, sounds very technical and I'm almost computer illiterate.

Soon as I got money I'm getting the Rolling Stone one.

I've seen the Rolling Stone set in a smaller box, not as elaborate as shown in the first post and presumably not including the book.

Here's the version you mentioned...



http://www.amazon.com/dp/0981766005/?tag=imwan-20

Wow, the more elaborate version is cheaper!