The Digital Reader

Overdrive just posted a press release that detailed their 7 new initiatives. It’s rather long, so I’m just going to quote the critical parts. From the press release: -Content Reserve® Plus: OverDrive’s global distribution platform will integrate third party digital catalogs to add their eBooks, databases, music, video, and enhanced multimedia content to OverDrive’s network of [...]

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From the article on PaidContentUK: I wondered how long it would be before print media pointed at the BBC’s new smartphone apps plan as another example of expansion in to their commercial territory. The answer: just 24 hours… The Newspaper Publishers Association, in an emailed statement, says its members believe BBC apps “will undermine the [...]

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From the announcement: FBReader is an e-book reader. It currently works on the Sharp Zaurus, Siemens Simpad with Opensimpad ROM, Nokia Internet Tablet (Maemo platform), Archos PMA430, Motorola E680i/A780/A1200 smartphones, PepperPad 3, Asus Eee PC, IRex iLiad, UMPC, and desktop computers running Linux, Windows XP/Vista, or FreeBSD. It supports several e-book formats: epub, plucker, palmdoc, [...]

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From the press release: The Jouve Group, a European service provider specializing in digital and print content management and publishing services, announces the acquisition of TexTech International Private Limited. TexTech, based in Chennai, India, along with its US subsidiary, TexTech Inc., specializes in Publishing Services for books, and eBooks, and offers publishers local customer services [...]

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From the press release: McGraw-Hill Professional today announced that it is releasing Select: eChapters in an Instant. Select’s collection contains more than 750 chapters of essential, market-leading information pulled from a diverse book collection of authors and experts representing the best of McGraw-Hill Professional’s comprehensive library.McGraw-Hill Professional is the world’s leading publisher of finance, business [...]

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From the press release: DynamicBooks, a new subsidiary of Macmillan, unveiled today a new digital publishing platform that allows instructors to freely customize and modify some of today’s most respected textbooks. Using the DynamicBooks’ editing tools, instructors can tailor world-class content to suit their classroom needs by editing existing content or adding new text or [...]

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