Phoenix-Library Takes Over from Rocket-Library, Expands to Other Formats

July 20, 2001

Phoenix-Library - www.phoenix-library.org - has become the new home of former Rocket-Library.com contributors, volunteers and community members. (Rocket-Library.com was shut down suddenly by its owner Gemstar several months back.)

Visit Phoenix-Library

Expanding from Rocket-Library.com's RB format focus, the online library offers Adobe Acrobat Reader, MS Reader, MobiPocket, ReB 1100, Franklin's eBookman, and Rocket eBook eBooks, as well as eBooks in several languages.

Speaking to one the site's "Founding Birds," Philippe Rigaux told Planet eBook that "the Phoenix-Library is a conservatory of more than 3000 titles at its opening and this will grow with the help of its users."

The site is a truly global release with the site's "Founding Birds" including people from across the globe: Germain Garand (Belgium - now in Lisbon), Philippe Rigaux (Paris), Jean-Marc Lacombe (Canada), Teotonio Simões (Brazil) and all participants of the Phoenix-Library.org newsgroups.

The "Founding Birds" of Phoenix-Library include Germain Garand (Belgium - now in Lisbon), Philippe Rigaux (Paris), Jean-Marc Lacombe (Canada), Teotonio Simões (Brazil) and all participants of the Phoenix-Library.org newsgroups.

Features

Here's a quick summary of the features:

  • eBooks in the following format (with more to come)s: .LIT, .PDF, .PRC and .RB
  • Site Languages already available: English, French and Portuguese.
  • Read online or download
  • Free access to a lot of content, as well as inexpensive membership packages for complete access.