macintosh software industry windows software industry electronic publishing founded december 1982 headquarters watertown massachusetts products mac os mac os x and windows software website www.eastgate.com 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 and one of the best known publishers of hypertext fiction . 5 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 6 in which much early hypertext fiction was written 7 and tinderbox 8 a tool for managing notes and information . storyspace was used in a project in michigan to put judicial bench books into electronic form . 9 eastgate s chief scientist mark bernstein is a well known figure in hypertext research 10 and has improved and extended storyspace as well as developing new hypertext software . contents 1 product list 2 works published by eastgate 3 notes 4 see also 5 references 6 external links product list edit tinderbox a content assistant for managing analyzing and mapping notes in a hypertextual environment . storyspace a hypertext writing environment . works published by eastgate edit michael joyce afternoon a story 1987 1990 sarah smith the king of space 1991 stuart moulthrop victory garden 1992 kathryn cramer in small & large pieces 1994 shelley jackson patchwork girl 1995 richard holeton figurski at findhorn on acid 2001 notes edit faq . eastgate.com . retrieved on 2013 07 28 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . landow george p. 1992 . hypertext the convergence of contemporary critical theory and technology . the johns hopkins university press . p. 40 strange fiction by jimmy guterman 05.23.97 forbes . tinderbox 1.2 multipurpose app sparks stores and shares ideas . macworld september 1 2003 . pamela samuelson spring 1992 . some new kinds of authorship made possible by computers and some intellectual property questions they raise . university of pittsburgh law review . 53 685 . note 45 . interestingly storyspace is now being used as a hypertext system for a project in the state of michigan to put judicial bench books into electronic form . denison d.c. december 9 2001 . onsite column . boston globe . but how far can you push hypertext that s the question that inspires eastgate s chief scientist mark bernstein ... . during most of the 80s and 90s bernstein devoted his energies to pushing the boundaries of hypertext fiction . see also edit electronic literature references edit miller laura march 15 1998 . bookend ; www.claptrap.com . the new york times . retrieved on august 13 2007 . guernsey lisa april 15 1999 . new york times new kind of convergence writers and programmers . the new york times . retrieved on august 13 2007 . external links edit eastgate systems inc. official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title eastgate systems & oldid 708490810 categories mac software companiessoftware companies based in massachusettselectronic literaturepublishing companies of the united statescd rom publishing companiesinteractive narrativepublishing companies established in 1982companies based in massachusettswatertown massachusetts1982 establishments in massachusetts navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages italiano edit links this page was last modified on 5 march 2016 at 22 20 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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