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unusual facts about eBook



Aluratek

Founded in 2006, Aluratek manufactures an assortment of electronic products, namely: eBook readers, digital video camcorders, multimedia players, internet radios, digital photo frames, 3G routers, docking enclosures, USB 3.0, high resolution adapters, USB and multimedia accessories, splitters and switches.

Andrea Cagan

Tamar Geller, The Loved Dog (2007) Simon & Schuster, Print Pages: 256 Print ISBN 1-4169-3814-1, eBook ISBN 1-4165-6297-4

Ben Kinney

Kinney co-authored Soci@l, an ebook published by Rellek Publishing Partners, with Jay Papasan.

Bien Logic

After a well-received presentation to Simon & Schuster CEO Dick Snyder who was an early believer in handheld electronic books, CCC's CEO Ron Fortune gave a substantial contract to Bien Logic in 1993 to develop the first educational digital book on the eBook/BOOKMAN platform of Franklin.

Biff Mitchell

In 2005, Mitchell served as International Spokesperson for Read an eBook Week, during which time, he worked with Michael S. Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, on a "Brief History of Project Gutenberg".

CVS Lookbook

It relies on Kobo's ebook service to access the electronic texts, and it has a color screen.

David Klinghoffer

In May 2010, the Discovery Institute released a free 105 page eBook titled Signature of Controversy: Responses to Critics of Signature in the Cell edited by Klinghoffer with chapters by Discovery Institute fellows David Berlinski, Casey Luskin, Stephen C. Meyer, Paul Nelson, Jay Richards and Richard Sternberg.

Gilead

It is also used in the titles and as the name of the main character of two Warhammer Fantasy novels by Dan Abnett and Nik Vincent: Gilead's Blood (published 2000) and the on-going serialized Black Library eBook sequel, Gilead's Curse (Hammer and Bolter, Issues 13-18+, published 2012).

Gregory Ulmer

Published by the Alt-X Press, which was founded by Ulmer's former student turned internationally acclaimed artist and writer Mark Amerika, the ebook is said to have finally fulfilled the long-promised potential of online publishing to use stimulating visual arrangement, media hybridization, and typographical ingenuity to blur the distinction between publication, exhibition, and design performance, which further brings to mind Ulmer's own self-consciously titled book "Internet Invention."

GVU

In the spring of 2009 this led to another spectacular lawsuit: After raids in Lüneburg, Wolfenbüttel and Braunschweig three men were arrested, who ran a tracker with 24.500 copied movies, TV shows, games, audiobooks, eBooks, music and software.

MyBible

MyBible (formerly known as Scripture) is a Bible study eBook application for Palm OS.

Parragon

On 16 June 2011, Publisher's Weekly reported that Parragon had renewed an existing license with Discovery Kids, including titles in the eBook format, as well as a new series of activity and novelty books around Squinkie brand toys.

Plucker

FBReader - a free software FictionBook ebook reader which can also view Plucker and HTML files.

Samsung P2

The P2 comes in four colors (black, blue, white & red) and comes in 2, 4, 8, and 16 GB variants; it has a touchscreen, Bluetooth 2.0 as well as DNSe 2.0, an FM radio, an eBook reader, a Datacasts feature, and a photo and video viewer.

Smashwords

Authors upload their manuscripts as Microsoft Word files to the Smashwords service, which converts the files into multiple ebook formats for reading on various ebook reading devices.

Vicki Lansky

Today most of her books are published by Book Peddlers and are distributed by Publishers Group West (PGW) to book outlets and in eBook format, and by mail or online through Practical Parenting.

Wakhan

However, the factual accuracy of this account is strongly disputed in Jon Krakauer's ebook Three Cups of Deceit.


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