Here is Jeddin, holding a digital copy of the flawed early ELM prototype of the Book. As soon as I get enough time and energy, I’ll have a new edition of the stories in the Book up for sale as an ordinary e-book. Next up will be some new ways of packaging both e-book and the book’s virtual world together as one Book for readers. Then, finally, this adventure will begin to approach the milestone I envisioned over ten years ago. The adventure has taken on such a life of its own that I’ve come away with much more than I’d ever hoped for. Who knows what tomorrow will unfold, from and for any of us?
Epilogue Since the submission of this paper to the Virtual Education Journal in April 2013, the growth and maturation of new virtual worlds has thrown open several avenues of development for the work described above, and this evolution compels me to report new advances now unfolding in the field. Some of these have already taken me in new and exciting directions. In the previous section I referred to “some new ways of packaging both e-book and the book’s virtual world together as one Book for readers”. One of the first of these, freely available, emerges from use of a piece of software called Sim on a Stick, which lets a virtual-world builder construct, store, build, and access an entire set of regions all packaged on an ordinary flash drive. 40