The Day Ahead: Oracle's Applications Growth Leaves Wall Street Grumpy
News Adobe recently acquired e-book company Glassbook in an effort to cash in on the electronic publishing business. On a conference call, officials said Adobe can use Glassbook's technology to offer a series of services.
[September 15, 2000, 12:03]
Stephen King To Publish E-book
News The 16,000-word ghost story, Riding the Bullet will be available for $2.50 (£1.55) on 14 March.eBook vendors include Glassbook, netLibrary, Nuvomedia's Rocket eBook, Peanutpress.com, SoftBook Press and SoftLock.com.
[March 8, 2000, 14:21]
Scary! Stephen King E-book Pirated
News Len Kawell, president of Glassbook, one of the e-book publishers distributing the story, confirmed that hackers had attacked the encryption technology used to protect the story from copyright violations.
[March 30, 2000, 9:18]
Stephen King Rewrites E-book Biz
News The e-book can be read on a PC or a special device from one of the participating vendors, which include Glassbook, netLibrary, Nuvomedia -- which makes the Rocket eBook -- Peanutpress.com, SoftBook Press and SoftLock.com.
[March 17, 2000, 10:11]
Consumers May Find E-books A Tough Read
News Other readers, such as the Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader Plus V2.0 (formerly called the Glassbook reader) do not allow you to read the same e-books from more than one computer or to copy e-book data files from one computer to another.
[November 30, 2000, 11:51]
Microsoft Betting On The Tablet PC
News One Microsoft competitor, Adobe Systems, which bought Microsoft eBook Reader competitor Glassbook this summer, is also working on its own tablet software, said Len Kawell, director of Adobe's eBook Development Group.
[November 7, 2000, 7:30]
