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Palm buy peanutpress, 2001 Eppie Awards

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This week 's big news is the sale of peanutpress to Palm Pilot. The new company name will be Palm Digital Media. Peanutpress's reading platform will be renamed Palm Reader and it will come preloaded on the new Palm m500 and m505 PDA's. They will also come with two e-books, "Tarzan of the Apes," by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and "12 Valuable Ways to Use Your Palm," from Velocity Business Publishing. Not much of an incentive but it will give purchasers something to play around with.

The m500 should be available this Spring for around $399 US. The m500 has a monochrome screen while the Palm m505 has a colour screen and will be available a little later and will sell for about $449 US. Both devices can hold up to 8 Megs of data and will include expansion slots for storage. They will also offer Internet connectivity software and will have the option for an add-on MP3 player. Palm PDA's use Palm OS 4.0 operating systems and also come with software to allow customers to connect to the Internet with a mobile phone to send and receive messages and manage e-mail.

Palm is also entering into an agreement with Franklin Electronic Publishers to license reference content for e-books on expansion media cards for the new Palm m500 PDA's. The Franklin titles will be promoted under the PalmPak name.

Two of Franklin's eBooks initially will be incorporated into MultiMediaCard memory cards for the m500 series. The PalmPak Dictionary/Thesaurus Card will combine Merriam-Webster's Tenth Collegiate(R) Dictionary with Franklin's popular American English Thesaurus. The PalmPak Translator Card will include Franklin's English-French, English-Italian, English-German, and English-Spanish bi-directional translators.

The second annual Eppie Awards Banquet and Award Presentation held March 17, 2001 at the Embassy Hotel in Las Vegas.

The winners of the Eppie Awards follow:

Best Anthology --- Loren W. Cooper for Lives Of Ghosts (Abbey the Troll Publications)

Best Children's Book --- Nancy Coffelt for Fred Stays With Me (See Spot Books)

Best Historical Novel --- E.L. Noel for The Threshing Floor (Crossroads Publishing)

Best Science Fiction Novel --- Dr. Bob Rich for Sleeper, Awake (Clocktower Books)

Best Romantic Suspense Novel --- Kate Douglas for Honeysuckle Rose (Hard Shell Word Factory)

Best Action/Adventure Novel --- Nick Mandilas for The Post Office (Jacobyte Books)

Best Contemporary Romance Novel --- Kate Douglas for On Wings Of Love (Hard Shell Word Factory)

Best Inspirational Novel --- Deborah Milton for Joy To The World (Page Free Publishing)

Best Historical Romance Novel --- Denise Agnew for Love From The Ashes (Starlight Writers Publications)

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