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HINESVILLE, Ga., Oct. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Say Dozeman, author of the political adventure fiction e-novel The White House Games, has partnered with Libboo.com, a digital platform for publishing and selling e-books, to introduce readers to a new way of finding books that they will love. Libboo.com included Dozeman's novel in the company's first book collection released in their September 24 pilot program. The idea behind the Libboo platform is making "buzzers" (influencers who...
PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Boston Library Consortium (BLC) has partnered with ebrary, a ProQuest business, and YBP Library Services (YBP), the academic division of Baker & Taylor, to make it easier and more affordable for its member libraries to acquire authoritative e-books from publishers including Princeton University Press, Wiley, and Brill. Participating BLC member libraries are now offering seamless access to titles eligible for Consortium-wide...
With over 300+ million active Android devices, more people than ever are turning to their smartphones and tablets for reading, whether for pleasure or for getting information. Now writers can reach this growing audience by turning their e-books, manuals, brochures and more into apps using Andromo's new PDF activity. Winnipeg, MB (PRWEB) September 30, 2012 Now anyone with an ebook, training guide, or informational PDF document can turn it into a professional Android app using Andromo....
A simple yet powerful utility to help Mac users create EPUB files from other popular document formats. (PRWEB) September 27, 2012 Enolsoft Co., Ltd., a professional multimedia software developer, today is pleased to announce the release of EPUB Creator for Mac to help Mac users create EPUB files from other popular document formats like PDF, RTF, HTML, CHM, Text, Word, PowerPoint, JPG, PNG, TIFF etc. With this Mac EPUB Creator, users are able to convert both encrypted and unencrypted PDF...
Enid Burns for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Barnes & Noble is releasing two new Nook tablets which will keep the bookseller's tablets in play for the holiday season. Nook HD and Nook HD+ are 7-inch and 9-inch tablets, respectively, with high resolution displays that gear the slates for video and entertainment. Both Android tablets will be available in the U.S. and U.K., and are slated for a fall release, which is likely late October. Barnes & Noble began taking...
SEATTLE, Sept. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- With the start of the academic year, The Cheap Textbook has launched a new textbook price comparison website aimed at making the task of shopping for the best prices much easier. This free service searches all the leading online vendors for the best prices of new, used, rental and e-books. Students can do their comparison shopping without visiting each vendor individually. The savings over bookstore costs are significant. The site incorporates...
NEW YORK, Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A promising model for the purchase, distribution and use of e-books and digital course materials on college campuses took an important step forward today, as McGraw-Hill Education, Internet2 and Courseload announced that they have partnered with EDUCAUSE to expand an e-book pilot program to more than 25 institutions, including major research universities and community colleges, for the fall 2012 semester. The pilots enable participating...
PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- To help K-12 libraries acquire e-books more strategically, ebrary®, a ProQuest business, has added hundreds of relevant e-books across acquisition models, which provide libraries with the best value when combined. Diversifying acquisition models is a key component of ebrary's three-step approach: Transition, Diversify, and Streamline(TM). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120620/DE27948LOGO-b ) ebrary's renamed the Schools...
PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ebrary®, a ProQuest business, today announced that Elsevier Science & Technology Books is adding over 1,000 titles to Academic Complete(TM), the industry's first and most scholarly subscription database of more than 78,000 e-books with unlimited, multi-user access. This marks the first time that these Elsevier titles, covering subjects such as mechanical engineering, chemical and process engineering, and civil...
PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- To enable public libraries to affordably and strategically meet the nonfiction e-book needs of patrons, ebrary®, a ProQuest business, has added over 9,000 new titles from publishers including Bentham Science and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt across acquisition models. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120620/DE27948LOGO-b ) More than 1,100 of the new titles are in subjects including health & fitness, photography and...
