New Trend Alert! The Digital Boxed Set

We Were Ahead of Our Time Dept: Steve Jobs just announced the digital boxed set (see story below) and may have accidentally stumbled onto something new and even better for musicians with huge song catalogues - the one-time mega download of an artist’s entire album lineup.

But guess what? We did the same thing over ten years ago. To celebrate our column’s anniversary we jokingly created the “Alice and Bill Digital Box Set” and put it in a zip file on CompuServe. Users could download the whole year’s worth of our column and every year after that we simply pasted in another 12 issues.

Wish we had those files…Anyone out there have a copy?

But keep this in mind: Jobs (and us — Bill) has created a whole new way to package music, and eventually electronic books, back issue of magazines, and I’m sure movies, games, and on and on. This is only the beginning.