Zelco has sold 30 million of the lights since then; they now come in almost a dozen versions, including a small one for children, a compact edition for travel, and one that talks (with a 10-second recording).
Tomorrow, the Wall Street Journal raises the stakes again, with the multi-million-dollar launch of a compact edition and further investment in its online content.
Under Thomson, The Times issued a compact edition and intensified its focus on business, sports, politics, and international affairs.
More TV Done Right -- The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus Collector's Edition ($159.95; A&E) is no more than the lads deserve, a new slightly more compact edition of their groundbreaking, wall-breaking and indeed ceiling-breaking TV series, along with loads and loads of extras.
The compact edition of Darcey Bussell: A Life in Pictures (Hardie Grant, £16.99) is published next month.
That Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, Complete Text Reproduced Micrographically, I realize now, represented real magnanimity on the part of Oxford University Press.
On 4 July Guardian Weekly is launched to provide a compact weekly edition of the newspaper, aimed at an international audience.
The two volumes comprising the Ancient Records of Assyria, presented for the first time in a single compact edition the entire body of the Assyrian historical records in a Western language, may form not only a monument to the careful scholarship of Professor Luckenbill, but also a valuable contribution to historical knowledge.
The first chapter of the compact edition is typical of the Orion approach.
