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Also available in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Indonesian, Dutch, and Farsi. Coming soon in Greek.

+ May 2009: The fourth edition of How To Read a Film is now available. Here is the publicity site.

+ February 2008: Version 1.1 of the DVD-ROM is now shipping. Changes were made to allow the disc to work more effectively with recent versions of QuikcTime and Adobe Reader. There are no changes to the content.

+ February 2006: Readfilm Installer Update and Adobe Reader Update. Make sure to read these notes if you encounter difficulties using the disc in Mac OSX.

+ James Monaco was interviewed in PDFZone's "Champions of PDF" series. Part two.

+ Acrobat Master Class, the book from Peachpit Press, features How To Read a Film: Multimedia Edition: "We have seen the future of interactive multimedia," writes pdf guru Pattie Belle Hastings. Click here to view the four-page spread.

+ What does Planet PDF think about How To Read a Film: Multimedia Edition? Here's their comment (in pdf, of course).

+ We've found our first major error. The Aspect Ratio checker was printing with the wrong ratios! Click here for the correct Aspect Ratio Checker.

+ Click here for information about ordering exam copies of the book or disc.

+ Read what the critics are saying about How To Read a Film: The Multimedia Edition !

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