"But where do friends sign? Digital yearbooks blossom;
Many high schools are making two versions: One in print
and a supplement on DVD."
By Joann Klimkiewicz
Orlando Sentinel, June 29, 2005

...As a supplement to their traditional print yearbooks, many students this spring took home slickly produced digital versions for their computers and DVD players. They include slide shows set to music, video clips of school-year highlights, and personal messages from fellow classmates.

...For many schools, the digital supplements give a home to the scores of unused images that don't make it into most yearbooks. And the supplements provide a keepsake of the most noteworthy events in the spring, when it's usually too late to squeak past the print yearbook's deadline.

...Britton says her fellow students enjoy the digital version. Her older sisters, now in college, still pop theirs into the computer when they're looking for a quick nostalgia fix or a diversion from a term paper.

...Yearbook companies say the schools opting for these newfangled yearbooks cross the socioeconomic spectrum, from urban to suburban districts. The cost is typically folded into a package, priced together with the print yearbook.

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