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"Grey"
(From the book "1st Tales from
Shattered Earth")By : Deborah Susan Jones : Editor & Contributing writer"Grey"
was one of the original icon-sized oil and acrylic
paintings created for the experimental e-commerce
project of the early 1990s with Barclays bank called
"Barclaycoin", an early attempt to create a reliable
system for online purchases. The concept, in order to test run it,
was the creation of an online magazine called "Tales
from Shattered Earth", a series of illustrated short
stories written and illustrated by the artist.The experimental division of Barclays
Bank created a downloadable "wallet" which could have
money transferred into it from either a debit card or a
credit card, typically for small price purchases of
fifty pence and the concept was principally focussed on
small ticket sales, thus it was that you could purchase
the right to read one of the stories or a collection.The system worked fine, but
Barclays eventually abandoned the project in the face of
further developments in the e-commerce area which
eventually evolved into the on-line shopping carts that we
are all familiar with today.The
stories eventually were repackaged as a collector's
printed luxury book available from our bookstore here.Deborah Susan Jones
