Overdrive Announces ReaderWorks Publisher Sale

Overdrive, the developers of the popular ReaderWorks group of software tools, has announced that ReaderWorks will be on sale until the end of 2000. Usually priced up to $149, the ReaderWorks Publisher software for creating ebooks for Microsoft Reader is reduced to $69. According to OverDrive the sale is because it is "celebrating reaching 100,000 users of its ReaderWorks products for converting manuscripts, articles, textbooks and novels into eBook format for Microsoft(R) Reader with ClearType(TM)."

As earlier reported at Planet eBook, Overdrive announced its plan to distribute for free over 10,000 units of ReaderWorks Publisher software and 500 units of the ReaderWorks Software Developers Kit (SDK) to educational institutions. Based on the street-price of Overdrive's software, the program amounts to a donation of over $2.5 million.

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