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Friday, 30th October 2009

E-readers: To Bo Open or Not to Be Open -- That is the Question

From an Article by Matt Hamblen:

LibreDigital Inc. is previewing its AllAccess content delivery platform to allow publishers, authors and book resellers to offer book readers the option of downloading and reading e-books they purchase on virtually any device, such as a desktop computer, Apple iPhone, Amazon Kindle or Sony Reader.

AllAccess will be available sometime in the first half of 2010, a spokesman for LibreDigital told Computerworld today.

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Customers will pay for the books, textbooks and periodicals that they receive via AllAccess at prices set by publishers and resellers. LibreDigital will take a percentage of that cost, an amount still not determined, the spokesman said.

AllAccess is also supporting a wide variety of open e-book publishing standards, including ePub. In addition, LibreDigital is offering the ability to enhance and optimize book art and text for all the devices it will run upon, the LibreDigital spokesman said.

Anyone with Web access can get a preview of an actual book with the AllAccess tool through the Texas Book Festival Web site.

Source: Computerworld

See Also: Learn More about Libre Digital via Their Web Site

See Also: Keep Current With LibreDigital via their Twitter and/or RSS Feeds

See Also: Teleread, the expert site in eBooks, has more in this post.
Make sure to note the demo link.


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