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Subject:OT: A propos of e-books From:"Kate O'Neill" <kate -at- kathleen -dot- net> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 25 Jan 2000 10:31:10 -0800
Since some of you were talking about this recently, I
thought I'd pass along this little tidbit I picked up
from an e-learning industry newsletter:
> * e-Books Merge: Gemstar International Group Ltd. announced
> January 18 that it has entered the electronic-book business
> through the acquisition of the two leading eBook companies,
> NuvoMedia Inc. of Mountain View, California, maker of the
> Rocket eBook(TM), and SoftBook Press Inc. of Menlo Park,
> California, maker of the SoftBook(R) Reader. Info at
> www.softbook.com
