MS Reader will read to you.

Simon & Schuster announced this week an agreement with Ingram's former POD division, Lightning Source for the distribution of its E-books. Lightning was created to consolidate the POD service and an electronic delivery service to provide services for electronic publishers. Lightning is able to convert book files into whatever platform the publisher requires. It will soon be digitalizing Simon and Schuster's 12,000 title backlist.

Reed Exhibition's newest trade show, ePub Expo, will be held October 31 and November 1 at the Millennium Hotel and Conference Center in New York City. The show will focus on the management, distribution and production of digital content. In addition to exhibits, ePub Expo will feature a series of seminars that will focus on various electronic publishing issues. It will also be the launch of an ePub University consisting of a series of workshops to be held in Europe and the US to train people interested in entering the field of electronic publishing. For more information go to the web site . The DAISY Consortium digital audio and text synchronization will be standard forward throughout the world. The digital audio and text synchronization will be released this Summer. The digital audio and text synchronization will be built into the Microsoft Reader in the second released version. The Microsoft Reader is a "eBook" reading system. The first version of this (which will not include the ability to synchronize text and audio) intended to be The Microsoft Reader is one of many eBook reading systems coming to market.

The DAISY Consortium is comprised of nearly 40 non-profit libraries and organisations world-wide that produce and distribute books, journals and other types of information in accessible formats. Its mission is to identify and create global standards for information technology for people with print disabilities such as blindness.

Franklin Electronic Publishers unveilded their latest eBook reader at PC Expo this week in Europe. It will be called the BookMan. It will look like a Palm device but with a larger screen with greater definition. The eBookMan will have an expansion slot, for adding memory. It will read MP3's, Audible(TM)audio-book files, eBooks and other media. There will be a customised model that will handle MS Reader files.

They are announcing a "Fall 2000" street date, at three price levels, $129, $179, and $229. For more information go to .

The International eBook Registry announced the creation of a book registry for e-books. It will be a vendor-neutral site where authors and developers of digital documents can register their works. According to the registry authors can obtain a personal electronic portfolio called an eFolio, a marketing tool to

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