Old Planet eBook
The announcements, news items, articles, tools and interviews below originally appeared on Planet eBook between 2000-2002, during which the site covered some eBook industry news.
Articles
- Printed books have a few years yet
- Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader version 2.1 released
- Where are we headed with eBooks?
- A rather comical look at the MS Reader and eBooks in general
- Franklin eBookMan Review
- SecuraBook eBook Server released
- 'E' is for 'Enhancement' in new Frankfurt eBook Award submission criteria
- Mobipocket Launches New Offer
- Bookface Closes
- Barnes & Noble Digital created, competing with ePublishers
- XML, PDF, Meet Mr. Barnes and Mr. Noble
- goReader announces agreement with Addison Wesley
- Microsoft Reader Integration Takes More eBooks to Visually Impaired
- netLibrary Cancels IPO Plans
- Overdrive Announces ReaderWorks Publisher Sale
- Microsoft Wins Award for eBook Innovation
- AAP Releases Recommendations for Ebook Standards
- Stephen King Kills The Plant
- Gemstar v Microsoft Reader v Stephen King for New eBook Award
- PDF and eBooks: Linking Form and Content
- Oprah likes her Rocket eBook and it will help Gemstar and RCA
- Amazon Now Do Books and eBooks
- Why the eBookman Release Was Delayed
- Gates Demonstrates Tablet PC
- Random House releases 100+ classics
- Blair Witch Coming to a Palm Near You
- WAP-based eBook Site Launched
- Gemstar Announce Release and Availability
- ebrary Announces Investment From Three Big Publishers
- At The Heart of eBooks
- Finalists Announced for Frankfurt eBook Awards
- A New Look for eBooks
- The eBook Wars
- eBook Industry To Lose $1.5 Billion By 2005
- Forsyth to publish 'Quintet' exclusively on the internet
- Problems with the future of The Plant?
- Overdrive Announces Free eBook Authoring Software Program
- Barnes & Noble.com to Acquire Fatbrain.com
- BinaryThing.com Announces Strategic Alliance With eBooks.com
- Bryce Courtenay follows in Stephen King's footsteps
- eBooks.com Launched
- iPublish.com unveils its second monthly list of ebook releases
- Franklin becomes 'master reseller' of OverDrive's ebook authoring software for Microsoft Reader
- Freedom-Or Copyright?
- Adobe Systems Preview Acrobat Reader for Handhelds and Reflowing PDFs at SeyboldSF 2000
- Using Adobe's PDF Merchant for secure ebook distribution
- Electronic is not necessarily the end, when consumers speak
- Seybold Seminars Keynote: Microsoft announces an alliance with Amazon.com to build an eBookstore
- Adobe Systems Acquires Glassbook Inc.
- The Responsible Digital Citizen
- eBooks are Here to Stay
- Everybook to Unveil Personal PDF Document Management Software Next Week
- The Ultimate eBook Device
- Microsoft Reader's Bigger Picture?
- Next Generation Rocket eBook and SoftBook devices announced: REB1100 and REB1200
- netLibrary files for IPO
- BCL announce release of SimplEBook: conversion tool for ebook device users
- The future of ebook monitors?
- NetLibrary
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