By the time you get this book, my publisher and I will have established a website on which there will be supplementary and complementary files with links to each section of the printed book. (In this way, we can constantly update the site and keep in touch with you.) At that site, I will also include a file/link to this Introduction but as recomposed in a hypertext format and in part a multimedia format, so that you might see the difference between the print version here and a multimedia version of the 'same' Introduction on the Web, and perhaps might even see it as being more palatable. (I will limit what I do in terms of markup language [HTML] to the codes and techniques given in the book.) It may very well be, however, that if you are the kind of person who prefers words in print alone and in a regular font size with black ink on white paper, it will not matter at all what I--or anyone else--will or could have done to this Introduction in the electronic medium that we are about to study. I have many friends who are consistent in preferring a story told in print rather than presented in film, and who have never enjoyed a novel that has been made into a film. (As if the two genres are even comparable!)