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Model Writes Memoir at Apple Store

by Alon Avdi on January 3, 2008 at 05:39 PM

Is it us, or has Apple truly cultivated a cozy, nice-guy image in the consumer's world of technology? That funny commercial with the uptight PC nerd versus the laid-back Apple innovator type aside, it seems as if Apple's trying to live up to the image. Get this: A model actually wrote her memoir in New York's SoHo Apple Store over a period of three months.

Isobella Jade, a diminutive catwalker, wrote Almost 5'4" in late-2005, early-2006 using the Apple Store's computers, saving the new material she wrote each day by e-mailing herself. The book details her adventures as a vertically-challenged model trying to break into the business in the big city. Upon completion, Jade presented a reading of her memoirs at the same Apple Store. The rights to the work have been sold to the U.K.'s The Friday Project, which plans a commercial release in 2009.

Although we can just look at this story as one of those kooky, warm fuzzies delivered to you by Apple, we think Jade's actions may signal something far more significant. This episode might be a harbinger of a trend to come: an e-publishing phenomenon in which people use public computers in the public sphere to produce something accessible to the general public, from the novel they've always wanted to write to their gentle treatise on the Nice Guy.

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