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the new firmware (available sometime today, July 24th) will include support for both epub and Adobe’s Digital Editions. It will also include support for PDF reflow, which is something we’ve long been looking for. As an extra added bonus, the new firmware will support DE’s DRM system for both epub and PDF. However you may feel about DRM, this support for it, along with PDF reflow, means that all those PDF e-books available from many public libraries are now in play on the Reader for the first time, so dust off those library cards, folks!

threepress is a project to enable new revenue streams for print publishers using free and open tools for the web.

The frustration has come with access to content.

Flip it open, though, and a screen tucked within the housing opens to a 5-inch diagonal display.

The iLiad Book Edition

ePub represents the textual content of the publication using standard, ordinary XHTML 1.1.

you can develop for the iLiad by downloading the Crosscompiler Toolchain.

aFce à la mutation de l'univers des médias, opérateurs de téléphonie et éditeurs réfléchissent au lancement de journaux électroniques (e-paper). Orange teste depuis le 20 avril un kiosque à journaux mobile, appelé "Read & Go". Il permet d'accéder à plusieurs médias : Le Monde, Le Parisien, Les Echos, L'Equipe et Télérama. Le contenu devrait être rafraîchi toutes les heures grâce au réseau mobile (3G) ou au réseau sans fil (WiFi). Ce livre électronique (e-book), d'une capacité de stockage de 1 Go, soit 200 journaux, permet aussi de lire une trentaine de livres sur écran.

Back in 1998, on this page, I predicted that this little machine would become “the most revolutionary concept in publishing since the invention of the mass-market paperback in 1936”. The e-book, I prophesied, would change the way we read for ever. Having written those words, I put my e-book away, and never turned it on again. The death of the traditional book has been predicted, wrongly, from the very start of the digital revolution. This