NetLibrary


netLibrary, who recently filed for an IPO, provide users with access to the largest range of ebooks (28,000+) through their website, their netLibrary eBook Reader and their Peanut Reader for handheld devices (Peanutpress.com is a division of netLibrary). According to netLibrary they have the largest ebook collection - 28,000.

netLibrary eBook Reader

Before the release of the netLibrary eBook Reader and Peanut Reader, users had to be online and logged into the netLibrary website. Many users (Windows-based) are now able to gain access through their proprietary browser. Using their own system has meant they're able to protect their content to varying degress, depending on each work's copyright. Some of the kind of DRM controls such as copy, timed and print rights can be set for users viewing ebooks with the netLibrary eBook Reader -- the kind of flexible security that other ebook players like Adobe and Microsoft are working on bringing to their ebook viewers.

The netLibrary eBook Reader supports the features that are becoming fairly common in ebook viewer software - the ability to annotate, bookmark and highlight. Additional features include allowing the user to search all books in one's library, and extracting citations and bibliographic information.

Peanut Reader

The latest version Peanut Readers are as follows:

As well as the ebook viewing software, Peanutpress.com also distribute a free program Peanut MakeBook for creating books based on their own subset of HTML called Peanut Markup Language. These books can then be read on Palm OS's.