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Handy Book For Sony Ericsson
Downloads It uses the most popular "Palm DOC" format of electronic books. This format allows reading e-books in compressed form to save memory space on your phone. Handy Book is an electronic book reader for Sony Ericsson P800/P900/P910.
[January 24, 2006, 19:31]
E-Books: Getting There, Slowly
News Recent announcements regarding electronic books have breathed fresh life into a seemingly moribund market. We don't see a lot of resistance to electronic books per se," says Gregory Newby, director of Project Gutenberg, the first electronic library...
[April 7, 2006, 12:50]
Exclusive: Pocket PC Glitch Means Few Readable E-books
News On Tuesday, Microsoft and a group of publishing heavyweights are set to announce a small step for technology -- the creation of a new online electronic bookstore -- that they hope will be a giant leap forward in the advancement of electronic books.
[August 8, 2000, 8:59]
Microsoft, Donnelley Sign E-books Deal
News Microsoft and Donnelley were both backers of the Open eBook standard, which would allow electronic books to be read by multiple readers. Donnelley that could expand the list of e-books into the tens of thousands.
[November 5, 1999, 10:26]
Can Amazon's Kindle Become A Bestseller?
News Why, then, do Amazon.com and Sony think they need to replace traditional books with electronic readers? That means owners can buy and download books to their Kindle wherever they can connect to the web.
[November 21, 2007, 14:50]
Book Publisher Adopts Open-source Idea
News The material of the books may be copied and updated under the strictures of the Open Publication License, and Prentice Hall will release electronic versions on the Web. We think giving access to electronic books will potentially spur sales of...
[January 17, 2003, 8:57]
E Text Reader IGT
Downloads E Text Reader will read (using digital voices) the electronic version of books (e-books or e-text) to you. Thousands of literature titles are now available in electronic format. It does more than read it can translate too.
[March 22, 2006, 19:01]
Consumers May Find E-books A Tough Read
News Not so for the brave new world of e-books, where publishers place complex electronic padlocks on their wares through so-called digital rights management (DRM) technology. The publishers are the ones who have made that a prerequisite to their...
[November 30, 2000, 11:51]
BN.com To Print-on-demand
News After a book has been scanned and stored in an electronic format, IBM's print-on-demand technology publishes the books one at a time, taking about five minutes per copy to print pages, a cover, and bind the book.
[December 13, 1999, 13:52]
Stephen King Rewrites E-book Biz
News It's made people who may not have otherwise experimented with electronic books take a look. I don't think they're ever going to get rid of the paper book, but I think e-books will become a big part of the publishing world.
[March 17, 2000, 10:11]
Adobe Heralds Surprise E-book Revival
News The Adobe Digital Media Store offers books from major publishers such as HarperCollins Publishers, Simon & Schuster and Random House, plus links to electronic versions of publications such as Popular Science and The New York Times.
[December 18, 2003, 11:25]
Sony E-book To Use Electronic Ink
News E-books were once touted as the future of publishing because, in digitised form, books were easy to distribute and store. But consumer reaction toward the hardware was lukewarm because of high prices and book retailers, such as Barnes & Noble...
[March 25, 2004, 9:15]
Programmer Hacks Microsoft E-book Code
News Penguin, which recently formed an electronic publishing arm that will use a mixture of Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Reader software to distribute its e-books, said the revelation would not affect its plans to launch its first e-books next month.
[August 31, 2001, 17:06]
Pensioners Without Cash After System Failure
News Known as the universal banking system, the £1bn project provides users with a swipe card and PIN number replacing paper benefits books. The books are to be phased out fully by March 2005. Liberal Democrat work and pensions spokesperson Steve Webb...
[August 25, 2004, 16:45]
E-voting Harbours 'major Security Problems'
News We had a computer scientist talk about why there is a good reason to have three sets of books in a voting machine," she said. But an accountant would know that there is only one reason for a double or triple set of books, and that is fraud.
[July 30, 2004, 13:55]
University To Challenge Copyright Laws
News Eight movie studios have successfully wielded the DMCA to force 2600 magazine to delete a copy of a DVD-decoding utility from its Web site, and the US government last year arrested a Russian programmer on charges of allegedly creating and selling...
[September 5, 2002, 10:31]
ReadMark Premier
Downloads Whether it is blogs, online news, documents, or electronic books, ReadMark can be used as a guide to reading text on a computer. Identify where you left off in a paragraph. Try to distinguish a line of text from other lines.
[November 30, 2005, 23:31]
AportisDoc Reader
Downloads Thousands of electronic books and other documents are available in DOC format. AportisDoc Reader is an electronic text viewer that displays text documents of any size. This freeware version is limited to browsing documents only.
[September 15, 2000, 6:19]
AportisDoc Reader
Downloads Thousands of electronic books and other documents are available in DOC format. AportisDoc Reader is an electronic text viewer that displays text documents of any size. This freeware version is limited to browsing documents only.
[September 15, 2000, 6:18]
Adobe Takes Another Look At E-books
News Adobe thinks it's time to revisit electronic books. Electronic books were touted in the late 1990s as a replacement for paper books, but they have never become widely used. The software can read PDF pages as well as XHTML-formatted content, which...
[October 24, 2006, 11:15]
