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"Perfect Book" POD Machine Developed

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Leo Dwyer of RosettaBooks.com announced that the company has entered into an agreement with DataPlay for production and sale of e-books, audiobooks and a hybrid of both, on the DataPlay minidisc. The minidisk is a one and a quarter inch disc that has the capacity to hold up to 30 hours of spoken word audio content. The DataPlay will be launched in the fall of 2001. Dwyer is looking for other partners in the audio book/e-book industry. The system, according to Dwyer, could be used to teach languages besides entertainment.

eBookWeb launched this week. It is a non-profit organization sponsored by the ePublishing industry. More than 33 industry professionals will contribute columns to eBookWeb every month. ePublishers, authors and eBook companies donate time, services, content and money to support eBookWeb.

Franklin Electronic Publishers, makers of the eBookMan, announced five major deals with publishers and software makers on June 26, all of them aimed at increasing the supply of reading material for the eBookMan. Franklin CEO Barry Lipsky said at the PC Expo trade show in New York that US digital rights management provider Reciprocal will integrate Franklin's eBook security technologies into its Reciprocal(TM) Digital learing Service, enabling eBookMan users to download electronic eBooks and other reading material through Reciprocal's content network.

Franklin announced that it is working directly with print and electronic publishers to convert more content into the Franklin eBookMan format. St. Martin's Press has agreed to work with Franklin to make new and backlist titles --including an upcoming novel by the late Robert Ludlum -- available to eBookMan owners. Alexandria Digital Literature, the prominent Seattle ePublisher, is converting its full library of over 700 eBooks into Franklin's format for reading on the eBookMan.

Barnes & Noble.com, the No. 1 U.S. online book store, halted the sale of electronic books after Russian company Elcomsoft began selling a program to illegally copy text. Under pressure from Adobe Systems, which created the protective software for the e-books, Elcomsoft was compelled to discontinue the sales of its "hacker" program. It is now distributing that program for free. Barnes & Noble.com's electronic book department was closed from June 26 to 27 until Adobe provided new protection for e-books. Amazon.com, frightened by the actions of the Russian company, revamped all Adobe protective software a day later.

Xlibris Corporation, a publishing services provider that produces print-on-demand books for self-published authors, announced that Learning to Fall by Philip E. Simmons, will be published by the Bantam Dell Publishing Group in January 2002. Peter Pauper Press will be releasing a guided journal thereafter, based upon excerpts from Simmons' book.

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