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Bush at War: Inside the Bush White House
by Bob Woodward
From the author of eight New York Times bestsellers comes an authoritative account of the first 18 months of the Bush White House, and perhaps the biggest story since the end of the Vietnam War. Based on hundreds of interviews throughout the Administration, Woodward's account will provide the first in-depth, behind-the-scenes story of the new, untested President as he responds to the worst acts of terror on American soil.

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  11/29/2002

Time Out!
Asia Grace
Photo Gallery by Digerati Kevin Kelly.
"My method of shooting was simple: smile, shoot first, ask questions later. It seemed to work. I spent enormous amounts of time hanging around places waiting for something to happen. Sometimes it did, often it didn't."
To get the Printed Book for $35 click here (if you buy direct form the Asia Grace site, it cost $40)
Also check his cool tools in PDF

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DotLit This
Wired: Science + Religion
To read the articles in your Pocket Reader, click all featured articles on Science + Religion, choose Print format viewing, select all, paste into MS Word, save it to dotlit using add-on program.

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The Roof is On Fire
Burn, Baby, Burn
The real threat to the music biz isn’t P2P
“YOU LIKE THIS SONG? HANG ON, I'LL MAKE YOU A COPY.”
Look at the numbers: Industry estimates say 6 billion blank CDs will be sold worldwide this year – that’s one for every person alive today – along with 44 million drives on which to burn them. And 140 million people now own writeable drives – far more than the most optimistic membership claims made by Napster or any of its heirs. “You’ll find one on nearly every consumer PC,” says Gartner analyst Mary Craig, one of the more bearish forecasters in the business. “They’re not using them for backups.”
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"IPOD USERS CAN EASILY COMMIT GRAND THEFT AUDIO."
Steve Jobs understands the iPod’s potential for grand theft audio. The DON'T STEAL MUSIC stickers he slapped onto them prove that. His sop to the record industry was to enable iTunes to download to iPod, but not to upload. It’s a strategy only marginally more effective than the sticker. A free utility called iPod2iTunes makes cloning my friends’ iPods a plug-and-play operation.
So enabled, the iPod is a pirate suitcase nuke. And Jobs is the one who will complete the task Fanning started.

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Read Out
New Handheld Devices Spur Content Sales
Simon & Schuster, Random House, AOL Time Warner and Hyperion are among the publishers making a growing number of front- and backlist titles available as e-books in four formats: Palm, Gemstar, Adobe and Microsoft Reader (which works on the Pocket PC as well). North notes that literary fiction, romance, SF and business titles are all enjoying handheld success. "There's an interesting debate," North added, "as to whether the consumer will ultimately prefer a dedicated device, which is likely to have a larger screen, or a general-purpose device like a Palm, which you carry with you."
Whatever hardware ultimately prevails, the future of the once-declared-dead e-book seems a bit brighter. North said HC is "seeing fantastic growth," especially in e-book sales to handheld devices.

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Speak Out
Microsoft eBook Survey
Here is your opportunity to let "You-Know-Who" know how he can better meet your needs.
Thanks to Paul Hua for the info

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  11/28/2002

MJ Rose's
How to Publish and Promote Online
Should you publish an eBook? A print book? A print-on-demand book? A CD-ROM? All of the above? How do you create an eBook? How do you set up your Web site? How can you generate publicity?

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Pocket Indies
Movies for the Pocket PC
"Domain of the Infinite" is an online movie studio that creates original films exclusively for the Pocket PC. Witness the production process, read scripts, view movie artwork, and download free movies to your handheld.
Domain of the Infinite has several movies in the works every thing from sci-fi, comedy, and horror. Download the free videos and transfer it to your Pocket PC. Choose an icon in the right column to download the free content from movies now in production.
Original Link comes from PocketPCThoughts

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Great Idea
Free Currency Converter eBook
(U.S. Dollars)
From Texterity: Free Currency Converter for U.S. Dollars is designed to help you quickly translate the value of your currency into different foreign currencies. This eBook is a Microsoft Reader dictionary. You can look up a currency in two ways:
* By entering the value into the cover page Lookup bar
* From any eBook in your library, by highlighting the value and clicking 'Lookup...' (great for translating prices in travel books)
The Currency Converter is updated daily, so return to download at any time to get the latest exchange rates!
Thanks to ebookfan2002@*.com for the great information!

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  11/27/2002

The Adventures Continue
Pip and Flinx Series
Flinx and his flying pet snake Pip encounter all sorts of aliens and adventure in this series, and along the way Flinx learns the secrets of his past and its implications for his future…if he can stay alive long enough. The Tar-aiym Krang, published in 1972, was Foster's first novel.

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Pocket Writer
Using Toshiba e310 Pocket PC from a Writer's Point of View
When I could no longer put off buying either a laptop or some type of handheld device on which to read ebooks, it was a hard decision, until it came to the price. I ended up purchasing a Toshiba e310 Pocket PC, and so far I haven't regretted my decision. It not only performs the functions I require, it actually aids my writing...
In Pocket Word you can edit directly - just make sure you save the file to the same folder. This was the only stumble I had with it because I created duplicate files and then didn't know which one I'd altered.

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Welcome to the USA
Sklyarov allowed into US
The US State Department has finally agreed to let Russian software developers into the country for the trial of Elcomsoft, the company alleged to have broken a new digital copyright law.
The department had put the brakes on the trial by refusing visas to Alex Katalov, the chief executive of the Moscow-based software company, and Dmitry Sklyarov, one of its programmers.
But according to the San Jose Mercury News, a pretrial hearing was told that the Immigration and Naturalisation Service had approved special visas for Katalov and Sklyarov.

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  11/26/2002

Major eBook Release
Nanovelociraptors
Go into a big chain bookstore Monday and you'll hardly be able to find the aisles, hidden by stacks and stacks of copies of Prey (HarperCollins, $26.95), Michael Crichton's first book in three years. Flick on the TV and you'll see him pitching the thriller on "The Today Show," "The View," "The Early Show" and "The Charlie Rose Show." The current Entertainment Weekly contains an exclusive interview with Crichton and today's Parade magazine features his byline over an article on the subject of his novel.
Prey is available in every conceivable medium--printed book, abridged and unabridged audiocassettes and CDs, large print and e-book--and the film rights have been sold to 20th Century-Fox. Needless to say, Crichton is also mounting a seven-city book tour.
Get Prey eBook for less than $10

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Go the Distance
Anti-Piracy Group Orders Net Downloaders to Pay Up
a unique crackdown on illegal file-sharing, a Danish anti-piracy group mailed invoices to alleged pirates demanding compensation for downloading copyrighted materials off the Internet, an attorney for the group said on Tuesday.
The Danish Anti Piracy Group (APG) identified 150 alleged pirates asking them to pay a combined $133,600, said Morten Lindegaard, an attorney for the group. The biggest offenders face a bill of $13,360.
"We are demanding full payment for the use of these copyrighted materials," Lindegaard said. The APG has worked with the Danish branch of music trade body International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, to crack down on online piracy. The decision to seek compensation for downloads opens up a controversial new front in copyright holders' ongoing campaign to curb consumer piracy on the Internet, a phenomenon blamed for a decline in CD sales and upswing in the free trade of video games, computer software and video games.
In each case, the Danish users were accused of downloading copyrighted materials from file-sharing networks Kazaa and eDonkey, two popular so-called peer-to-peer (P2P) networks in Denmark, Lindegaard said.
Lindegaard, 29, and his helpers -- four Danish university students -- developed a software program that monitored Danish file swappers on the two P2P networks, honing down to the users' Internet Protocol, or IP, address to confirm they were logged on from Denmark.
The program also traced the files shared and the time at which they were downloaded. After reviewing the evidence, a judge ordered the users' Internet service providers to pass on the violators' billing addresses.

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Time is running out
Prey by Michael Crichton
Fictionwise's Special Offer 50% Off -
eBook extras: Exclusive Crichton interview. Also: "As Explained by M.C.": Highlights from Michael Crichton's 30-plus years of making complex concepts understandable and entertaining. Plus: "The Crichton Canon," an introduction to his 12 prior novels and 4 works of nonfiction. In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles--micro-robots--has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour. Every attempt to destroy it has failed. And we are the prey. As fresh as today's headlines, Michael Crichton's most compelling novel yet tells the story of a mechanical plague and the desperate efforts of a handful of scientists to stop it. Drawing on up-to-the-minute scientific fact, Prey takes us into the emerging realms of nanotechnology and artificial distributed intelligence--in a story of breathtaking suspense. Prey is a novel you can't put down. Because time is running out.

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Guilty by Suspicion
Digital copyright trial set to begin next week in San Jose
A federal judge has ruled that the trial of a Russian software company will proceed as scheduled next week, if the defendant and the government's key witness are allowed to enter the country in time.
Sklyarov, who developed the algorithm upon which the Elcomsoft program is based, originally was charged along with his employer, but federal prosecutors agreed to drop charges against him once the case is completed.
Sklyarov, who was arrested after speaking to a hackers convention in Las Vegas in July 2001, is expected to be one of the government's key witnesses.
The trial was postponed last month after Whyte was informed that the State Department had refused to issue visas to Katalov and Sklyarov.

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  11/25/2002

Pocket Aloha
iTravelbooks: Hawaii
itravelbooks gathers all the critical knowledge you need and puts it in an inexpensive format you can take anywhere. Hawaii covers every popular island and lists the hotels, resorts, activities and sight-seeing for every price range. To make your travel planning a breeze, this book also contains a password that lets you download a free version of the book to use on any computer, with live links to every website and the ability to printout only the pages you want.

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Brasilia
eBookBrasil.com
A eBooksBrasil, ePublisher House, está aqui para prestar serviços aos leitores, escritores, editores e livrarias. Porque..

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Italiano
Mondadori.Com
Per leggere i nostri eBook installa il software gratuito Microsoft Reader che puoi trovare in questa pagina.
Consultando l'E-catalogo puoi scorrere rapidamente l'elenco completo di tutti i nostri titoli. Se invece hai perduto la tua ricevuta o vuoi scaricare nuovamente gli eBook acquistati entra nella nuova area clienti per recuperare l'ordine.

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  11/24/2002

5 Minutes vs. 600 Minutes: you make the call
The Cycle of Leadership
This week execuBooks.com features The Cycle of Leadership in which Noel Tichy and Nancy Cardwell discuss GE and its former CEO, Jack Welch, as the epitome of a teaching organization.
Tichy warns, if your organization doesn't develop a "virtuous teaching cycle," it is in danger of falling into a vicious downward spiral of failure.
for the complete 600 minutes ebook click here

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Featured Author
Robert Silverberg Buy 1/Get 1 Free!
Robert Silverberg is a living legend in the world of literary science fiction. He made his first professional fiction sale at the age of 19 in 1954, and published his first novel the following year. He has won 5 Nebula awards and 4 Hugo awards, with dozens of nominations. A prolific writer, he has published over 400 short stories. He has remained one of the top figures in the genre throughout the 80's and 90's.
Buy The Longest Way Home, and get Sorcerers of Majipoor for Free.

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  11/23/2002

DRM5 won the battle but loosing the war
Efforts to stop music (Digital) piracy 'pointless'
The paper was prepared for a workshop on Digital Rights Management, (DRM), at the US Association for Computing Machinery's annual conference on Computer and Communications Security.
Digital Rights Management describes attempts to stop people copying music from CDs and sharing the tracks via peer-to-peer networks such as Kazaa and Madster.
The researchers point out that the growth of consumer broadband and cheap data storage will mean the numbers of people willing to swap is growing and will soon outstrip attempts to shut them down.
The growth of instant messaging systems will also contribute to this gradual loss of control.
The rising numbers of recordable CD and DVD drives are also making it much easier for consumers to create their own music compilations and share them with friends which could also stymie anti-piracy work.
The paper also pointed out the technical flaws in DRM systems and said that, so far, all of them have been defeated.
In one case the CD protection system designed to stop people playing the disks on a computer was foiled by using a marker pen to cover the outer ring of a disk.
The authors reserve strongest criticism for watermarking systems which put invisible markers in music that stops tracks being passed around and shared.
But the "severe" commercial and social problems inherent in such schemes plus their technical shortcomings mean that they are "doomed to failure", warn the authors.
The paper's researchers emphasise that it represents their opinions rather than those of Microsoft, but their conclusions are likely to make uncomfortable reading for music industry executives.
In essence, say the researchers, file-swapping systems have already won. The only way for music companies to compete is on the same terms by making music easy to get hold of and cheap to buy.
Evidence gathered by critics of the music industry has shown that CD prices have steadily risen over the past few years and may have contributed to the slump in sales as much as the rise of file-swapping systems.
In "ebook" piracy case, people still can easily download pirated ebooks based on the scanned version of the printed book.

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Free Advice to Microsoft
Top Ten How MS Reader can improve:
1. Easy Bookmark (like Pam Reader's action button)
2. Owner control "Furthest Read" mark.
3. No more "Text to Speech Functionality" warning when opening DRM5 eBooks.
4. Sharing DRM5 ebook between users in One Desktop (so my Kids do not have to log on as me to read the premium children ebook).
5. Multiple users' annotation for one ebook in one desktop.
6. No more "memory bugs" in Pocket Reader version.
7. Hiding ebook or sub folder in Library menu.
8. Multi platforms (where's the Mac and Palm readers)
9. Support eLibrary functionality (time limit ebook, returned marking).
10. Support DRM4 format.

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Media Down Under
Rupert Murdoch: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Media Wizard
A senior writer with the Australian Financial Review offers the inside, thoroughly unauthorized story of Rupert Murdoch's quest to become the most powerful media figure on the planet.

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How to Title your eBook
Which of these ebook titles tempts you the most?
So, you log on the Internet in search of information on how to promote your group. Along the way you find two ebooks for sale that are exactly what you're looking for.
The first one is called "Promoting a rock group on the Internet".
The second one is called "How to make your rock group famous using the Internet".
Now, ask yourself, which of these titles would tempt you the most.
I don't know about you, but to my mind the second title is far more appealing...

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Great Offer
Baen CD ROM Library
You are about to start playing with a CD-ROM that has fairly extraordinary content. As of this writing it includes twenty-two UNENCRYPTED novels in several formats, the ten Honor Harrington Novels, 3 Honor Harrington Anthologies and 9 novels by friends of Honor, and by the time of distribution it may well contain more. (More than twenty novels for free—and with no stupid codes to work around. Think of that.) The reason for the plethora of formats is to try to please the people who want to read the novels on their Palm Pilots or other text-specialized palm-sized devices.
Discuss this at Slashdot

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  11/22/2002

Time Out!
Spielberg Taking 'Tintin' to Big Screen
Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles!
Tintin, the intrepid young reporter who inevitably finds himself at the center of global adventures, is leaping from the comic book to the big screen.
Steven Spielberg (news) and frequent producing partner Kathleen Kennedy will produce a Tintin live-action feature for Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures.
The "Tintin" comic strip was first published in 1929 in Belgian newspaper Le Petit Vingtieme and was eventually translated into more than 50 languages. "Tintin" has already been the subject of several animated adaptations for motion pictures and television.

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  11/21/2002

Why not try on me :-)
Fictionwise Gift Certificates
Send someone a Fictionwise Gift Certificate.
After it is purchased, the person you bought the Gift Certificate for is sent an email and told how to redeem it. Essentially, they register at Fictionwise, then apply the Gift Certificate code, and the gift is put into their account.
If your really enjoy this blog and thinking about giving me ebook as a token of appreciation, my email is jsjxyz@msn.com :-)

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Mobicomics
CartooneBooks from Mobipocket
Nice selections of Cartoon eBooks, worth to take a look.

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Under Rated Star
Mobipocket for eLibrary
Scott Pendergrast from Libwise/Fictionwise: MS Reader and Palm Reader can't support the Library model because they don't support the time out feature. Only Adobe (PCs only) and Mobipocket can at this time. Adobe has an advantage because of huge name recognition, but Mobipocket is far stronger because it supports virtually all PDAs and PCs (and soon Macs). Mobipocket has even put in a beaming feature for us, so now a library with our product can lend ebooks both on the web as well as in the physical library via beaming (it would be too hard to have a dozen different cradles setup in a library -- so beaming is the solution).
Libwise -- the Fictionwise product -- just launched in October and the reaction has been very favorable. We'll soon launch the 2.0 version of the product then we start marketing heavier at the big library meeting (ALA) in January.
You might want to take a look at the KnowBetter.com library, which is powered by Libwise.

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eComics
Cartoons for handhelds
If you're an eBook reader or movie buff, chances are you've got at least quite a bit of content in range for your handheld. But what to do if you're a comics fan? Beamable knows.
Delivering cartoons for not only Palm OS and Pocket PC devices, but also J2ME-enabled smartphones, the company has already published a number of comics issues in different series. By challenging traditional content such as eBooks and audio/video content, the company aims to provide an alternative to more established pasttimes - and is looking to add more artists to contribute to its growing content base.

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Not that, but this
Fictionwise-Scott Pendergrast's Comments on Digital Library
Hi Jerry,
The Content Reserve library system is currently PDF only (and is only a few thousand ebooks, not 35,000, as the article incorrectly stated). The Fictionwise system uses Mobipocket, and is the only library system out there that supports PDAs. We think 75% of the people reading ebooks do so on PDAs, so that's important. Also, we don't consider Content Reserve a rival as the article mentioned. We work with them closely on many things, and receive our MS Reader and Palm Reader ebooks through their system.

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  11/20/2002

Let's Read about...
Penthouse Uncensored III
What do Americans love almost as much as sex? Talking about it. And in their letters to Penthouse magazine, they reveal everything that goes on behind closed bedroom doors--as well as in the back and front seats of cars, locked corporate offices, airplane rest rooms, and other erogenous ports of call. Here, as told in their own uninhibited words and previously published as Letters to Penthouse VI and VII, is the state of the union between men and women today, in all its inventive, eccentric, and energetic variety. The sex is unbelievable. And every word is true.

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Boost or Busted
Another Boost for E-Books
Armed with new technology, a leading distributor of electronic books unveiled a service Tuesday allowing libraries to offer more than 35,000 titles that can be borrowed through the Internet and read on portable devices.
The announcement by OverDrive Inc. of Cleveland offers a much-needed boost to the nascent electronic-book industry, which has been slow to make inroads with publishers and readers.
Combined with a similar move last month by rival Fictionwise Inc. of Chatham, N.J., the offering helps solve one of the main hurdles for libraries that want to lend so-called e-books: They can't do so without specialized technology and permission from publishers.
The new services should help make strides in both of those areas, executives of the two companies said, while also whetting the public's appetite for e-books.
I am not sure these protected library ebooks (pdf?) can be read on Pocket PC yet, correct me if I am wrong.

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I See
ICDL
The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) is a 5-year research project to develop innovative software and a collection of books that specifically address the needs of children as readers. Interdisciplinary researchers from computer science, library studies, education, art, and psychology are working together with children to design this new library. With participants from around the world, the ICDL is building an international collection that reflects both the diversity and quality of children's literature. Currently, the collection includes materials donated from 27 cultures in 15 languages.
Original link comes from Trias Adijaya's Blog

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  11/19/2002

War Talks
The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq
In The Threatening Storm, Kenneth M. Pollack, one of the world?s leading experts on Iraq, provides a masterly insider?s perspective on the crucial issues facing the United States as it moves toward a new confrontation with Saddam Hussein. For the past fifteen years, as an analyst on Iraq for the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Coun-cil, Kenneth Pollack has studied Saddam as closely as anyone else in the United States.

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Law Talks
Copy Control Complaint Desk Opens
Frustrated with technological access controls on digital media? Disdainful of the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act? The feds are inviting you to vent.
The Copyright Office is now accepting comments on the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which made it illegal to copy digital entertainment and imposed a number of other restrictions that have drawn users' ire. The comment period ends December 18. A comment form is available online.
The DMCA was heralded by advocates as protecting the rights of artists, writers, and even programmers, to prevent their digital work from being illegally copied and distributed without their permission. The act says, "No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title."
But many in the tech industry have grown increasingly wary of its provisions.
The provision was invoked to great attention in the tech community when the U.S. government charged Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov with violating the DMCA when he demonstrated and marketed a program that would thwart copy-protection on Adobe's eBook file format. Charges against Sklyarov were dropped, but a case is still pending against his company, ElcomSoft, even though its product is legal in its home country.
The law also drew attention when a professor charged that it stifled academic research. A digital watermark firm had challenged all comers to crack its technology, then threatened Professor Edward Felten and his team with prosecution under DMCA if they published their findings.
The DMCA also allows exemptions to the anti-circumvention rule, intended to protect fair-use rights of consumers. The Copyright Office determines which types of works fall under this exemption.

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Money Talks
How Does The Mobile Devices Division in Microsoft Stack Up?
About once a quarter, I'll post the financial results of one of the Pocket PCs competitors, usually Palm. It is easy to do because Palm is a stand alone company. Microsoft, on the other hand, is more of a big conglomerate of technology items. Picking the Pocket PC performance out of that can be like trying to highlight just the letter "i" with your stylus.
The Mobile Devices division of Microsoft is generating more quarterly revenue than PalmSource, even more so when you consider PalmSource has non-OS revenue from ebook sales, though I don't know what that number is. Now, according to a CNET article the Mobile Device division lost $33M on that $17M in sales. Contrast that to the $6M PalmSource lost on $15M in sales. Again, it isn't totally apples to apples here for several reasons.

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Drive to Success
Boss Talk: Top CEO's Share the Ideas That Drive the World's Most Sucessful Companies
Here’s what some bosses are talking about:
“You have to get rewarded in the soul and in the wallet. The money isn’t enough, but a plaque isn’t enough either.”
—Jack Welch, General Electric Co.
“Lead by example. If you do that as CEO, your style will filter down through your team.”
—John Chambers, Cisco Systems
“We do a lot of quantitative stuff. But coupled with that is having an employee staff and culture that is inherently interested in what we do.”
—Tom Freston, MTV Networks
“Surround yourself with people you trust. You can’t run a business over a certain size and sign off on everything.”
—Emily Woods, J.Crew

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Driven to Tears
Dot Com Contenders: B&N, Amazon, Buy, and Half are Holiday Hopefuls
As the holiday season approaches, dot com retailers are again readying themselves for sales and doing their best to be competitive with "real world" booksellers.
So far B&N.com, aside from taking out a couple of two-page ads in several national papers this week, has discounted 3,000 book, music, and DVD titles 40% for the season. In addition, the company is extending a further 5% discount to its Reader's Advantage customers, bringing their discount to 10%, for a total of 50% off the sale items.

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Drive Over
Digital Library Reserve Enables Circulating eBook and Digital Magazine Collections
OverDrive announced today Digital Library Reserve, an application service for libraries to develop and manage a circulating collection of eBooks, eMagazines, eNewspapers, journals, audio books and other downloadable media for lending to patrons. Libraries using Digital Library Reserve services will be able to integrate digital media into their existing collection from a variety of sources as well as license titles from OverDrive’s Content Reserve. Content Reserve is the largest collection of premium digital books and periodicals from leading publishers including over 35,000 eBook products from 400 publishers.
“We have been working with libraries to develop expandable digital repositories as an extension of their catalog with integrated collection management tools for controlled lending of titles to patrons who visit their website,” stated Ray Leach, OverDrive Senior Vice President.
Digital Library Reserve (DLR) consists of a series of web services for the library to establish and manage its digital media collection. OverDrive has been working closely with Adobe Systems to take advantage of the library support and lending models available for eBooks and electronic magazines formatted in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) and secured using Adobe Content Server. Digital Library Reserve will also take advantage of the Digital Rights Management (DRM) services available to other media formats to enable libraries to expand their digital media collections to include audio books, PDA titles.

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  11/18/2002

Married with eBooks
I Like Being Married: Treasured Traditions, Rituals, and Stories
The ultimate celebration of the ties that keep loving couples together in good times and bad. With a guest list that includes Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Nancy and Ronald Reagan, Queen Victoria, George Burns, and Secretary of State Colin Powell (to name just a few); poetic tributes from Homer, Shakespeare, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning; and wedding readings from the Bible and other religious traditions, it captures the magic and deep-seated sense of commitment at the heart of married life. I Like Being Married shows that the institution of marriage is integral to our common humanity.

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Mission eBook
21 Hubbard Fiction Titles Set For Release Simultaneously In Five E-Book Formats
Making what he called a "major commitment to the still-burgeoning e-book marketplace," Galaxy Press president and publisher John Goodwin announced that they are "releasing the 430,000 word Battlefield Earth and the 1.2 million-word Mission Earth-respectively, the biggest single science fiction novel and multi-novel series in electronic publishing-in Microsoft Reader, Rocket eBook, Adobe, MobiPocket and Palm Digital formats."
Celebrating its 20th anniversary with the release of a new hardcover special edition and as one of the bestselling science fiction novels in history—with nearly 7 million copies of the epic future-Earth adventure already sold in 26 languages—Hubbard's Battlefield Earth also has set a top-10 pace on a number of major e-book bestseller lists.

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Fortunate eBook
From eBook to Big Screen: A Little Lower than the Angels
Ivan Black and I founded Dead End Street® in 1997 to propone the practicality of the ebook - while remaining focused on our larger goal of diversifying into an integrated publishing and motion picture production company. As many of you know, we were fortunate enough to license the rights to a phenomenal book - A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS - as we were getting the company off the ground.
Within a few months of its ebook publication, more than thirty motion picture production companies had requested a complimentary copy. Of course none of the companies were willing to review the story in ebook format. So, at thirty-five dollars per copy, we had the ebook printed, bound and sent to the respective companies.

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Burned
Rights Management Under Fire
A conversation with Adobe's James Alexander
NA: Is the lack of widespread acceptance of DRM architecture an impediment to more rapid expansion of the market for e-books?
JA: Who said the e-book market isn't expanding rapidly? The market for rights-managed content is tripling, even quadrupling every year. The best DRM in the world has little to do with technology. The best DRM has three components: widely available content that is reasonably priced and is easy to use. If there isn't anything good to read, well, guess what? No one is going to buy. Making that content easy to use is where Adobe and the Network Publishing vision come in. With every release of our DRM products, it gets easier and easier to use rights-managed content.
But the problems with Adobe eBooks are: it is the easiest to break, not compatible with Pocket PC, I can't back up the ebooks and probably loss them when I change the computer...(which I did)

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  11/17/2002

Retro Reading
Holocaust
Gerald Green's novel Holocaust, which is based on his teleplay for the 1978 NBC miniseries, seeks to put faces on the tragedy by telling the story of the experience of two German families whose lives intersect at certain points. The Dorfs are "good" Germans, loyal to the new Nazi regime, and their son Erik, a promising lawyer, finds his ambitions realized in the SS at the side of the ruthless Reynard Heydrich. The Weiss family is Jewish, also seemingly "good" Germans, but doomed under the new regime and its determination to exterminate the Jewish population.

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  11/16/2002

Pardon my France eBooks
Numilog.com
Choisissez votre ebook parmi des milliers de livres numériques
Great selections in both France and English, worth to visit!

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RIP
In Memory of Charles Sheffield
Charles Sheffield, 67, physicist and multi-award winning science fiction author, died November 2.
The UK- born Sheffield was a physicist known for his writing in science fiction and science. A former President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writes of America and the American Astronautical Society, he won the Nebula and Hugo awards for his novelette "Georgia on My Mind."
His fiction writing didn’t begin until he was nearly 40, and his intention was to sell three stories, just to prove that he could, and then stop forever. He published 27 novels and 6 short story collections. news.
We will all miss him dearly.

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Blue's Clueless
Clueless publishers go for specialized formats
"If you want to read about a dumb idea resulting from lack of coordination by sectors of the publishing industry, then this is your lucky day. Here goes: Imagine if you had to use the AOL browser to visit any newspaper's websites, but had to use Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 to visit any magazine's sites, but had to use Opera 6 to visit any broadcaster's sites, but had to use Netscape 6 to visit any e-commerce site. OK, that's far fetched, but something similar is really happening in regard to the new Tablet PCs: Zinio and the magazine industry are unveiling proprietary software designed for reading magazines on Tablet PCs. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times, Adobe Inc., and Kent State University's Institute for Cyberinformation are unveiling software for reading newspapers on Tablet PCs. McGraw-Hill, the AOL Time Warner Book Group, and other academic publishers are formulating other software designed for reading textbooks on Tablet PCs. And I wouldn't be surprised if the catalog industry is working on its own proprietary software for Tablet PCs." - Vin Crosbie, E-Media Tidbits, Nov. 11.

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Guy in His Basement:
dmoynihan's tips on scanning w/o scanner
Hey, our friends Charles, Charles, and Juliet are having a bit of a time keeping up with all the scanning. Luckily, we can help!
If you have:
1, A broadband connection--cable modem, DSL, fiber at your college, etc.
2, A reasonably fast PC (or a lot of patience!)
3, A lot of hard drive space
4, An OCR program like Abbyy Fine Reader,
You too can scan a book without a scanner. Here's some instructions

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Recommended Weekend Reading
Accidental Playboy: Caught in the Ultimate Male Fantasy
by Leif Ueland
Leif, the anti-Hefner, the only son in a family of feminists, who finds himself at the center of a vortex of erotica, sexual harassment, plastic surgery, stripping, and, always, beautiful women. As the cross-country journey progresses and the overwhelming sense of vertigo increases, Leif struggles to figure out what it is to be a heterosexual single guy. Is it being sensitive to women's needs, like his mother and women friends taught him? Is it being a "man's man," full of machismo and meaningless sex? Or can he find some kind of utopian meeting place, preserving a liberal, enlightened sensibility while at the same time giving his libido a "ticket to ride"?
Accidental Playboy is a smart, funny and surprisingly affecting book on the state of relations between the sexes. Leif Ueland's erotic road trip turns into a genuine journey of self discovery."--Harry Stein, Wall Street Journal

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  11/15/2002

The Sum of All Info
Copernic Summarizer
This easy-to-use summarizing software dramatically increases your productivity and efficiency by creating concise summaries of any document or Web page so you spend considerably less time reading without missing any important information.
Using sophisticated statistical and linguistic algorithms, it pinpoints the key concepts and extracts the most relevant sentences, resulting in a summary that is a shorter, condensed version of the original text.
This is how I used the software:
1. Creates summaries of any text or document (including PDFs): Copernic Summarizer can analyze a text of any length, on any subject, in any one of four languages, and create a summary as short or as long as you want it to be. It can summarize Word documents, Web pages, PDF files, e-mail messages and even text from the Clipboard.
2. Integrates into the most popular applications: You can obtain summaries quickly by clicking the Summarize button or by choosing the appropriate menu item integrated into applications such as Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Adobe Acrobat, Acrobat Reader, Outlook Express, Eudora, Microsoft Word, and Outlook.
3. Modify the summary using WebEssence, a proprietary content filtering technology: which automatically removes from Web pages irrelevant text and content (such as ads and navigation items), Copernic Summarizer focuses on the essential text elements, which results in even more relevant summaries.
4. Export and share results using a variety of file formats: Once summaries have been generated, they can be printed, saved in Microsoft Word or e-mailed, simplifying not only the way you store information but also how you share it with your friends and colleagues. From MS Word I convert them to MS Reader format using the MS Reader Add-in program.
5. Read the summarizer in my Pocket PC, faster and more convinience.
I know it would be better if there is a Summarizer for Pocket PC, let's wait...

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110,000
English-English Dictionary
English-English Dictionary for Windows CE P/PC & H/PC contains over 110,000 entries. You will need 13MB of storage space to store the dictionary data.
Thanks to Daddio for the info.

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Burn Baby Burn
Roxio snapping up Napster
Roxio, which makes CD-burning software, is acquiring virtually all the assets of Napster, the former file-swapping company, for about $5 million in cash and stock.
Roxio said it will receive all of Napster's intellectual property, including its technology patent portfolio, but will not assume any of Napster's liabilities, including pending litigation.

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The Future is Dark
The Future of Book History Research
The greatest difficulty for book historical research is inadequate sources. Publisher archives disappear through the years. Private collectors, libraries, and archives are now on the lookout for all kinds of collections in order to help preserve author's papers and publisher's archives. Librarian Ed Vermue's article includes some history related to NuvoMedia.
"Junk? The great modern enemy of future book historical research may very well be the devastating combination of publisher apathy and the incredible ease of hitting the "Delete" key. In this age of mass publishing, I fear that the survival of publishing records are ironically in their period of greatest peril. We should be very concerned about the survival of non-paper based materials such as magnetic tape, film, optical discs, etc., with which we are awash in this brave new digital age. In particular I am concerned about magnetically encoded e-mail, HTML files, and eBook content that can quickly become unreadable, altered, or lost altogether. The pace of change is stunning. The first eBook readers were introduced only about 4 years ago, yet they are several generations obsolete already.
Electronic records will survive only if those in the present era commit to either transferring their records to paper, or employ a workable, automated scheme to store them securely in electronic form. This latter option is no easy route since it entails a labour intensive commitment to either maintain the current software and hardware technology needed to access electronic records, or the refreshing and/or migrating of data with as little formatting constraint as possible, to whatever new storage technology that comes along. Who's going to care enough to do that? It's not enough for scholars, archivists and librarians to appreciate this, people in the publishing industry must appreciate it as well."
PPC eBooks Watch: think about if the future of all ebooks are using DRM5, non copyable, non searchable, research will be a nightmare!

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I'll be home for Christmas
David Baldacci's Christmas Train
Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, was banned from flying in the U.S. when an overly probing search wand caused him to blow his top at LaGuardia Airport. Now, the train is his only option to get to Los Angeles for Christmas to be with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he pitches a story about a train ride taken during Christmas season to his ex-flame editor, Eleanor. Thereupon begins one of the most hilarious-and heartwarming-train rides ever.

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  11/14/2002

Holly Moses
Moses: The Epic Story of His Rebellion in the Court of Egypt
by Howard Fast
In Moses, Howard Fast uses his widely acclaimed storytelling skills to paint a portrait of the most fascinating figure of the Bible. Renouncing his royal trappings, Moses casts his lot with his own enslaved people, the Jews, and becomes, for all time, an inspiration to the world.

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Faces of Death
The Many Faces of DRM
Digital Rights Management (DRM) has been something of an enigma for the computer industry since it burst onto the scene in the late 1990s. Digital Rights Management (DRM) has been something of an enigma for the computer industry since it burst onto the scene in the late 1990s.
Originally conceived as a way to lock and protect electronic content, such as music and ebooks, this vision never really materialized. A few years ago, Forrester Research published a report called Content Out of Control, in which they asked content owners what they thought the most important thing a DRM partner could provide. Fifty-eight percent chose "Rock Solid Security" as the most important feature. Yet Napster proved just how allusive this goal really was.
Forced to regroup, many DRM companies took a new tack. Rather than approaching DRM by trying to lock the content away and prevent users from getting at it, they decided instead to focus on making it easier to access material within a rights management framework that allows the customer to define, at increasingly granular levels, who can access the material and what they can do with it. Instead of targeting traditional media producers as they had done the first time around, they pursued the enterprise customer managing vast amounts of online data. The primary target industries included large publishers, science, and finance.
It's clear that each DRM solution provider--along with their clients--have come up with a distinctly different methodology for helping control access to online information via the enterprise, with the given solution tailored for the industry and market being served:
* DigitalOwl places a piece of software on the end-user's desktop that monitors and records what he does with the document even when not connected to the network.
* Copyright Clearance Center allows customers to purchase reprint rights at the point of sale on the Web site based on rules the customer defines.
* eMeta allows the customer to finely control the way information is presented to the end-user, then define different levels of access before they make content available on the Web site.
* ContentGuard has developed a digital rights language, which they license to the customer, who then develop their own customized digital rights front end using open standards.

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Toilet Education
Making E-Books Safe for the Toilet
Microsoft and its allies are no doubt thinking long-term -- during a recession there's little market for a $2,000 computer that gives readers an opportunity to spend money for onscreen versions of magazines they're already reading for free online. The hope here -- as it was for earlier failed generations of e-book readers (does anyone even remember the Rocket eBook?) -- seems to be that people will gradually get used to reading in a new way, at least in niche areas like technology, and will eventually be willing to pay for the privilege, once the underlying systems improve and go down in price.
Even if the software gets better and the hardware becomes less expensive, there are three crucial issues Microsoft and the publishers must address before tablet PCs can be attractive to paying subscribers.

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Palm Education
Palm Digital Media Announces Education Purchase Program
"We are seeing a growing interest in eBooks from schools that see the practical advantages of eBook technology in a mobile society, and understand the contribution this technology makes to reading, creative writing and communicating between students, teachers, administrators and parents," said Mike Segroves, director of Business Development for Palm Digital Media. "The education purchase program is Palm Digital Media's first step in making this technology more affordable to schools."
The program is designed to assist schools in deploying eBook technology in classrooms, in larger school projects and in campus-wide initiatives. It is open to all K-12 schools, colleges and universities in the U.S.
Purchasing options for Palm Reader Pro are:
Individual Level: 1 to 9 copies for $9.95 each
Class Level: 10 to 24 copies for $8.95 each
School Level: 25 to 249 copies for $7.95 each
More than 250 copies are $5.95 each
Licensing options for Palm eBook Studio are:
1 copy $29.95
3 copies $28.95/ea.
5 copies $26.95/ea.
10 copies $22.95/ea.
25 copies $19.95/ea.

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Reality Check
Working the web: ebooks
The paperless office may not have materialised, but the paperless book - or ebook - is now here, and with high-profile publishers now offering a serious range of ebooks, the traditional printed book has a serious challenge to its dominance.
Books have been placed on removable media such as floppy disk and distributed to readers for some years. The oldest producer of ebooks is Project Gutenberg, which began in 1971 by distributing books that were out of copyright on floppy disk.
Ebooks can be bought from online bookshops such as Amazon and WH Smith, both offering a large cross-section of subjects in the leading ebook formats. Prices are comparable to their paper equivalents. You buy your ebook by downloading not only the book itself, but also a key and licence to unlock the ebook so you can read it. Publishers can set the rights they offer on their ebooks, including whether you can make copies of the ebook and how much can be printed out.
You can also create your own ebooks; all the leading formats have software that allows you to do this. One of the most advanced and easiest to use is ReaderWorks. It's free for non-commercial use. Why not create your own personal travel guide from the paper books you have - or group all your favourite recipes together as one ebook you can easily access?
The ebook market is still very new and the fact that book buyers have three competing formats from which to choose doesn't help the market achieve a critical mass. That said, the ebook is here to stay and will find its own niche.

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ca
Only when I Sleep: My Family's Journey through Cancer
In December of 1995, at the age of twenty-four, Lisa Shaw-Brawley was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease, a form of lymphoma. Shaw-Brawley and her husband were visiting her family in California during the Christmas holidays when swollen glands sent her to see her lifelong family doctor. Only When I Sleep: My Family's Journey Through Cancer is her inspiring, first-hand account of what she learned that day and the battle she fought against cancer, based on the journal she kept from the moment she was diagnosed.

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Upgrade Watch
µBook 0.5c
Version 0.5c of uBook is now available for Windows and Pocket PCs. It has all the advances of uBook 0.5b plus:
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- UTF-8 non-unicode and MS-DOS accented characters support
- Some more Options
- And tons of tweaking / bug fixes.
It is an unlimited, no-nags, uncrippled, shareware
Discussion on µBook at Brighthand
Thanks to Andy Miller for the info

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  11/13/2002

Invisible eBook
MS Reader Missing eBook Download Bug
Problem: "I could not download an new purchased ebook from my bookself. It seems the computer download the file to temporary folder but MS REader run only go to its library page. When I search the .lit from my computer I can't find any new ebook."
Answer from FictionWise:
This is a bug that sometimes just starts to happen with MS Reader. I first found it when it happened to me and my LIT files would no longer show up in my PC version of MS Reader. Microsoft then told us how to have the SAVE DIALOG appear when downloading -- this let's me save it to the Library folder. Here are the instructions (which are on our MS Reader help page):
Saving Microsoft Reader Files on your PC:
When downloading a Microsoft Reader eBook (.LIT), the default setup automatically launches the PC version of Microsoft Reader once the download completes. Some members prefer to have more control on where there Microsoft Reader eBooks are saved. To do this, you have to modify the file type association. Here's how:
For Windows 2000 and Windows XP:
Open My Computer.
Click the Tools menu and choose Folder Options.
On the Files Type tab, choose Lit (extension) Microsoft Reader
(File Types).
Click Advanced, and then check the box before "Confirm open
after download".
For Windows 98:
Open My Computer
Under the "View" menu select Folder Options
Click on File Types tab, choose Lit (extension) Microsoft Reader
(File Types)
Click on the Edit button
Check the box before "Confirm open after download"

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Your Future Presentation
Coming to Your PC -- Net Movies
The anticipated online movies-on-demand venture formed by five major Hollywood studios was launched Monday, marking the first time a large supply of recent, popular films are available legally on the Internet.
The effort, called Movielink, allows people to download films over a high-speed Internet connection. It is the industry's alternative to the distribution of pirated films over peer-to-peer computer networks services such as Napster that threatened the music industry.

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HK
An American Redneck in Hong Kong
Can a "serious" author venture into humor without destroying his good name? I suppose we'll find out. An American Redneck in Hong Kong is a collection of true dog stories, cat stories, horse stories, hog stories, redneck stories, and Hong Kong stories.

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  11/12/2002

Noble Roads
Silk Road treasures united on the web
A treasure trove of more than 50,000 manuscripts, paintings and artefacts from ancient caves and temples along the Silk Road are going on show on the web.
In real life, the collection is spread out all over the world, but researchers will now be able to find it all in digital form on a website developed jointly by the British Library and the National Library of China.
"The idea is that scholars will always get as close as they possibly can on their computer screens to the objects," explained Dr Susan Whitfield, Director of the British Library's International Dunhuang Project.

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Passion
Passion for Islam:
Shaping the Modern Middle East: The Egyptian Experience
by Caryle Murphy
The search by Egypt's Muslims for a modern understanding of the Straight Way is the essence of today's passion for Islam."--from Chapter 1, "First Verses." Written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, this authoritative and enthralling primer on the modern face of Islam provides one of the most comprehensive accountings for the roots of religious terrorism and Middle Eastern strife.
Passion for Islam also looks at how the tortured Israeli-Palestinian conflict has contributed to the region's religious ferment and political tumult.

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  11/11/2002

PhD
SparkNotes
What do you get when a group of Harvard Students creates study guides for the 21st century? Better grades. Not long ago our writers were acing their classes. Now they're loading SparkNotes with concise critical analysis that won't yellow with age. With SparkNotes you'll have an easier time understanding and enjoying great works of literature. SparkNotes -- the smarter, better, faster way to an "A."

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DP
Distributed Proofing site goes through the roof
By David Moynihan
A WEBSERVER ENDURES Slashdotting and the publishing industry trembles. Two years after launching his Distributed Proofreaders site, Charles Franks, a programmer from Las Vegas, hit the traffic jackpot, shattering records for pages done, increasing his sites' users five-fold, and editing nearly 100 books, all in a wild weekend.
So what is DP? It's a website whose sole purpose is to generate cleanly edited public domain ASCII texts for Project Gutenberg. Franks and a few other experienced volunteers scan in the books via a $3,500 sheet-fed gadget, enter raw OCR'd text into a database along with images of each page. Visitors to Charles' site then edit the text to correspond exactly with the page image, saving the corrections before moving on to additional files. In a second round of proofing, the original edits are double-checked by another person for misses.
At DP, you don't commit to proofing an entire book, just editing one page at a time, though there's a ranking system for who's done the most. When all pages are complete, the experienced volunteer combines them into one large file, sending the completed work to Gutenberg's main internet server; shortly thereafter, the book files are replicated to literally hundreds of mirror sites across the globe.

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PD
The net crusader: John Perry Barlow
However, another worry is what will be lost in the meantime. "If we stick to this model for a period of time a lot of the work that we have done during the last 150 years is going to be lost if the content companies don't permit it being digitised," he says, pointing out that far from letting go of rights, media companies are using digital media to reclaim them. "If you download an ebook of Alice in Wonderland, which is in the public domain, it actually says in the small print that you can't read it out aloud."
"We saw a lot of this happening during the heyday of Napster. People were taking LPs and ripping the vinyl on to their PCs and a lot of those records I really want to see make the cut. The companies that produce those LPs hadn't sold any of them for years and had no intention of selling them but were stopping them doing it," he says.
Believing that the internet community has a three-year window to take the good fight to the content owners, Barlow doesn't intend to quit now. "What I do about it is go around and try and tell as many people as possible that something serious is taking place and they should be aware. Eventually, the truth will out. That's all I know to do," he says.

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New Site
RanaMedia eBooks Publisher
Lots of free ebooks from Indonesia... Worth to visit
International ebooks and some Indonesian ebooks like title on President Soekarno's.

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uNiquEBook
Lessons in Life I Learned from My Baseball Cards
Selecting some prize items from his collection, Caraher has reflected on their larger resonance and produced this little gem of a book, the sports equivalent of Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. With deft cameos of stars whose admirable lives and careers characterized such virtues as fortitude, humility, determination, honesty, and decency, Caraher has breathed life into the statistics behind baseball's role models and produced a collection of miniature portraits that illuminates the national pastime as few other books have.

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  11/09/2002

From Brazil with Love
Paulo Coelho's Free Download
Coelho's eBooks in Rtf format, you might need to convert them to MS Reader for reading in your Pocket PC Reader.
Download the great Maktub, a collection of 110 short stories (published in several Brazilian newspapers) translated by Alan R. Clarke.
There are two versions for The Alchemist - in Russian: The first version is in Cyrillic, and the second one is in Ocidental alphabet.

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Beware
The (Non) Pocket PC Press eBook
I still can't believe it, a publisher whose name Pocket PC Press released an (or more) ebook(s) in a format that can't be read on Pocket PC.
An Example is:
Digital Dating
The Byte-Sized Guide to Finding Love Online
Pub.:PocketPC Press
File Size: 562KB
Format: Adobe Reader with DRM Rights:
Copying not allowed
Print 1 pages every unlimited days
Lending not allowed
Reading aloud allowed (Not Funny)
Never expires
FYI. Adobe Reader eBook that use high level of DRM Can't be read on your Pocket PC
And most ebooks published by Pocket PC Press can be read in Pocket PC :-)

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eMag
Magazines to publish on tablet PC
Six major magazine publishers, including Forbes and the New Yorker, plan to don a new image for tablet PCs, creating digital facsimiles of their periodicals and pushing the fold on Web advertising.
As Microsoft heralded its vision for pen-based computing this week, it also said it signed deals with these top publishers to help transform the tablet PC into something people will pick up, take with them and read.
To do this, Microsoft is working with Forbes, the Financial Times, the New Yorker, Slate and two foreign economic magazines, France's Les Echoes and Germany's Wirtschafts Woche, to build tools for publishing a trial set of electronic magazines that will available for download sometime in 2003.
I hope the format will work with Pocket PC.

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Bestseller Watch
Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography
by Bruce Chilton
Drawing on recent archaeological findings and new translations and interpretations of ancient texts, Chilton discusses in enlightening detail the philosophical and psychological foundations of Jesus’ ideas and beliefs. His in-depth investigation also provides evidence that contradicts long-held beliefs about Jesus and the movement he led. Chilton shows, for example, that the High Priest Caiaphas, as well as Pontius Pilate, played a central role in Jesus’ execution. It is, however, Chilton’s description of Jesus’ role as a rabbi, or "master," of Jewish oral traditions, as a teacher of the Cabala, and as a practitioner of a Galilean form of Judaism that emphasized direct communication with God that casts an entirely new light on the origins of Christianity.
Seamlessly merging history and biography, this penetrating, highly readable book uncovers truths lost to the passage of time and reveals a new Jesus for the new millennium.
"Bruce Chilton, an Anglican priest and religion professor, has written a readable and compelling profile of Jesus and the culture and times in which he lived. Rabbi Jesus is a scholarly pursuit that . . . reads more like a novel. The biography flows with the fluidity of an adventure tale, rich in characters, texture, and detail." - Herald-Sun (Durham, N.C.)

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  11/08/2002

Kiddo
eBooks (an eBook actually) by Pocket PC Kids
The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
A touching, dramatic story. Robert, Peter, and Phyllis live with their loving, attentive parents in a large house, with servants who wait on them.

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New Pro Reader
Mobipocket Reader Pro 4.5
Enjoy Interactive Content : transform your Reader into a set of FREE calculators or have fun with the FREE Quizzes.
Highlight, Modify or Annotate sections, add bookmarks, free drawings, custom links and more...
Autoscroll and rotate screen orientation.
Built-in removable Card Manager
And Read to Ojster.com's review of Mobipocket Pro Reader: "...faster than the Palm Reader PRO verson since it beats the competition in every operation. It really is fast!"
Pocket PC eBooks Watch: The one that I hate about Mobipocket Reader is the "enews" which keeps popping everytime I attach my Pocket PC to my Notebook. And since the enews channels are very limited, I really don't need this feature at all (there are better products for enews like Avantgo and Mazingo).
They should create Mobipocket Reader "light" which just for reading ebook, smaller size, and does not mess with the ActiveSync.

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Starship Enterprise
Star Trek Series
The timeless Star Trek series by various authors. Whether you're a purist fan of the original series or enjoy the newer themes, you'll find something here to indulge your Federation fantasies.

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Sounds like Cognac
CogniQ™
Unbound Medicine, Inc. today announced the release of the Pocket PC version of CogniQ™, the leading platform for personal knowledge management on mobile electronic devices.
"The release of our advanced Pocket PC version is a major milestone," said William Detmer, president and CEO of Unbound Medicine. "Our Pocket PC application is not a typical static content reader, but instead a highly optimized knowledge management and communication application. With it users will be able to manage their personal knowledge across time, settings, and technologies as they have with CogniQ for Palm OS devices."
Link from Medical Pocket PC

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Future Watch
MS Reader for Tablet PC
When Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates takes the stage in New York on Thursday morning to officially launch the Tablet PC, he will announce the availability of Microsoft Reader for Tablet PC.
This is a special version of Microsoft's existing electronic reading application designed for the Tablet. Gates will use his launch address to show a demo using Zinio, which offers digital versions of a range of magazines, and the Microsoft Reader 2.5.
While some Tablet manufacturers are offering buyers a selection of eBooks for free download that are targeted at business professionals, some 50 business and leadership titles will also be available for purchase Thursday at Barnes & Noble.com.
Gates will also use his address to demonstrate a multi-monitor device as well as Far Eastern character sets, in particular the Japanese character set. In addition, he will address how important the Japanese market is for the Tablet PC, sources familiar with the presentation told eWEEK.

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EPeriodicals:
Microsoft Takes Aim at PDF
Adobe's PDF document-distribution format may seem entrenched among computing consumers, but that isn't stopping Microsoft from trying to throw its weight behind a competing publishing venture.
At its Tablet PC launch here on Thursday, Microsoft provided its first public glimpse of its e-publishing technology, code-named ePeriodicals.
At a mini-trade show at the launch, Microsoft demonstrated how ePeriodicals could be used to capture, display and deliver to subscribers XML-based digital versions of magazines such as Forbes and The New Yorker. The Financial Times and Slate are also working with Microsoft on ePeriodicals, Microsoft officials said.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates mentioned ePeriodicals briefly in his Tablet keynote address. Gates described ePeriodicals as "an extension of the eBook work that Microsoft has been doing for a number of years."

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Se2ond
Selling eBooks & Subscriptions to Consumers Online: Hard Lessons from a Get-Rich-Quick Publisher
CHALLENGE: After leading a Florida-based training company from $1 million to $8 million in three years as CEO (during which time the company was in the Inc 500 two years in a row), Shawn Casey decided to go out on his own.
First he researched like crazy, trying to find out everything there was to know about online marketing.
He learned two things - the first being that making money online is a lot harder than it seems from the outside.
The second was despite the plethora of sources claiming to tell you how to do it, none at the time were both permission-based and turnkey.
So, he started his own sweeps site and after figuring out for himself what worked, wrote and self-published an ebook on the subject called 'Mining Gold on the Internet.' He didn't sell many copies because it wasn't his main focus at the time. "I promptly did not a lot with it."
But then in late 2000,...

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Se7en
The 7 Worst Things Parents Do
Psychologists John and Linda Friel have written an enormously readable and infinitely practical book that digs into some of the worst mistakes that parents can make, with suggestions on how parents can change immediately.

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  11/06/2002

The Problem with Greeds
The Problem with eMusic.Com
Big media's flirtation with the Internet may be over soon after it began. At least that's how it looks to a bunch of music enthusiasts who have been subscribing to an on-line service called EMusic (www.EMusic.com), which allows users to download songs in the compressed MP3 format for a flat monthly subscription fee (a princely $10 for most). The four-year-old service was going fine--about 65,000 users, 230,000 tracks available, revenues rising 30% in the first half of the year--until late October when several subscribers were told their accounts had been terminated, due, EMusic said, to "unusually excessive download activity."

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Bushed
More George W. Bushisms:
More of Slate's Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President
"Most of you probably didn't know that I have a new book out. Some guy put together a collection of my wit and wisdom--or, as he calls it, my accidental wit and wisdom. [Laughter] But I'm kind of proud that my words are already in book form."--President George W. Bush, discussing and reading from George W. Bushisms. By now, most of you probably do know about George W. Bushisms, the bestselling collection of misstatements made on the campaign trail by our president. Now, in More George W. Bushisms, Jacob Weisberg reveals that the malapropisms didn't stop on Inauguration Day.

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eBook Tailor
The Future of the Book
One of the first acts of the French National Assembly in 1789 was to issue this declaration: "The free communication of thought and opinion is one of the most precious rights of man; every citizen may therefore speak, write and print freely." UNESCO still defines "book" as "non-periodical printed publication of at least 49 pages excluding covers".
Yet, have the innovations of the last five years transformed the concept of "book" irreversibly?
The now defunct BookTailor used to sell its book-customization software mainly to travel agents. Subscribers assembled their own, private edition tome from a library of electronic content. The emerging idiosyncratic anthology was either printed and bound on demand or packaged as an e-book.

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Mind your language
Classicistranieri.com
Access to the complete list of free e-book available on classicistranieri.com (Classical in Original Language) is now reserved to subscribers of our newsletter.
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  11/05/2002

Yes Yes Yes!
3 Steps to Yes
Three Steps to Yes shows you how to move anyone from no to yes in just three simple steps. It enables you to get people to do what you ask them to do and believe what you want them to believe without being a bully, damaging your relationships, or compromising your principles. All the old-fashioned persuasion techniques -- authoritative power, punishment, rewards, verbal manipulation, relationship selling, negotiation -- will be a thing of the past once you make this breakthrough three-step technique a part of your life.

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Don't Say it
µBook
µBook is a simple and lean, yet powerful ebook reader for Windows and Pocket PCs that can read HTML, TXT, RTF, PDB and PRC (not secure) ebook files. It can read directly from inside ZIP or RAR files, and supports BMP, GIF and JPG images. It offers many customization options including: Portrait and Landscape display, Choice of font type, color and size, etc.... It Also has a resizable/skinnable User Interface.
Original link from MyPDACafe.com

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Who You Gonna Call? DRM5 Buster
OmniPage Pro 12 Surpasses Sales Milestones in Record Time
OmniPage Pro 12 Office is a powerful productivity application that delivers highly accurate document and PDF conversion, replacing the need to manually re-create paper and image-based documents with an automated, electronic process. The software helps businesses save time and money by instantly turning paper and PDF files - letters, contracts, spreadsheets, magazine articles, manuals and more - into editable word processing and spreadsheet documents.
With advanced features such as scan- and PDF-to-XML capabilities, as well as support for the open eBook standard and batch processing, OmniPage Pro 12 Office offers a new level of functionality and ease of use for enterprise and workgroup environments.

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Multi Platform Professional Reader
Palm Reader Pro for Desktops
$9.95
The Palm Reader family is now complete. You can now read all of your Palm Reader eBooks on your Macintosh, Windows or Tablet PC computer, with access to the same dictionaries that you use with Palm Reader Pro on your handheld. And you get some great new features as well. In addition to support for dictionaries, Palm Reader Pro for Desktops
gives you color highlighting, two page display, improved annotation editing and control over the line spacing in your eBooks.
But we think the coolest thing you'll find in this new version of Palm Reader is the ability to create and swap themes for your new desktop Reader.
Punch in this week's Promo Code CHIEF to receive a 10% discount off each book that you purchase. Offer good through November 12th on all books priced more than $3.00. Cannot be used in conjunction with other special offers.

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  11/04/2002

Ramadhan is Coming
The Qur'an:
Translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Sura 49, Verse13
O mankind! We created you form a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that you may know each other (not that you may despise each other). Verily the most honored of you in the sight of Allah is (he who is) the most righteous of you. And Allah has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things).

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And the winners are...
The Winners and Finalists of the 2002 Independent e-Book Awards
by The Digital Literature Institute
"The future of literature is now, as its most active online practitioners find themselves in the unique position of making history," said Mark Amerika, one of the distinguished Judges of the 2002 Indie Awards. Mark is also Author and Publisher of Alt-X, Fine Arts faculty member at the University of Colorado and former Creative Writing Fellow and Lecturer at Brown University. "Whether you call it hypertext, digital narrative or electronic writing, the important thing is that the Internet is helping create an environment for creative cultural production like never before."

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Publishers eGarage
eBookAd.com Unveils New Software for Publishers
The software includes modules for managing customer accounts, an eBook specific shopping cart, management of eBook catalogs, web-based uploading of content, an extremely powerful search engine, graphical sales reporting, marketing and promotion, an online bookshelf to store customer purchases, integration with eBookAd's news feed, an eBook review system, an optional hardware store and more. The server software has been designed to run on either Linux / Unix servers or Windows NT based computers.
The new services include full web and email hosting for ePublishers, credit card processing, web site design, eBook storage and marketing services. As the system is completely modular and customizable, an ePublisher can select from any or all of the services or software modules as needed. The solution can be installed to run as a stand-alone system, or it can be seamlessly integrated into an ePublisher's existing website.

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Virtual Book Burnings
‘Trusted computing’ sacrifices autonomy to security, critics say
Critics fear, however, that it will be the end user who might end up being trusted the least in the brave new world of trusted computing. Creators of trusted programs could resort to draconian tactics to ensure their policies are enforced, Anderson said.
Programs found to be illegally copied could be rendered useless remotely. Sensitive e-mail, which might be useful in investigations, could vanish. And ebooks could be subjected to virtual book burnings.

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Yup
YuBee
Your flight gets cancelled and you need to find a hotel. You need to reprint a presentation. You're in the middle of nowhere and your rental car gets a flat. YuBee finds the nearest business to meet your needs. Choose a category. Choose a business. Yubee generates a listing of the closest establishments and gives you an address, phone number, map, driving directions, and even one-tap dialing on Pocket PC Phone Edition devices. If you're looking for something specific, like bagels, or a specific bank or restaurant, use YuBee Locator to find anything, anytime, anywhere you travel.
YuBee is a location-based content directory specifically made for the mobile user. Personalize your settings by clicking "Set/Change Location". YuBee remembers where you are, and can always provide the nearest location for whatever you need. Change your location as you travel, and Yubee stays with you, always providing local listings.

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  11/03/2002

Right On
Gutenberg project volunteer: The ClearType Press
"End up converting a majority of the ~5000 Project Gutenberg etexts to proper ebook format for MS Reader and Pocket PCs. I am critical about Project Gutenberg at certain times throughout this article. Please dont take offense, I think PG kicks a55. If it continues as is, I will still love it; but I hope they might take what I have put together, or build their own automated tools and make it even more powerful and successful."
Link comes from PocketPCThoughts.com

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Off-Line
Sunnysoft World off-line
Sunnysoft World off-line is application which is intended for all Pocket PC users. This application enables the direct download of any Internet and Intranet pages to your mobile device including all off-site pages, pictures and files. You can select when and what data to download to your Pocket PC. The biggest application advantage over, for example, AvantGo, is the fact that it does not use any intermediate stage. It means data are transfered directly to mobile device. You do not have to register anywhere as it is common on for example AvantGo. Next great advantage is that you do not have to pay for anything. You can download any data quantity. All you have to do is to install Sunnysoft World off-line, add your favourite channels and synchronize without registering or paying to anybody.
Link comes from PocketPCThoughts.com

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eDucators
eFollett New Look
Targeting the college market? efollett.com delivers! ...recognition as the smartest place to buy textbooks online...a national retail presence reaching 4 million students annually...and access to over 300,000 faculty members.

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Free eBooks from Microsoft
MSLit's Free eBooks
Found 1408 eBooks, any question?

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Official MS Reader Portal
MSLit.Com
The www.mslit.com site provides a quick and easy way to find Microsoft Reader eBooks (also known as "lit" format eBooks). The catalog includes both free and commercial eBooks representing adult and juvenile trade books, short stories, and articles. With over 15,000 unique titles mapped directly to over 120,000 web locations, www.mslit.com is the largest catalog of Microsoft Reader eBooks available.
The site was developed by Texterity, Inc., in partnership with Microsoft Corporation and cooperating distributors, retailers, and publishers.
Thanks to ebookfan2002@... for the info.

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Pocket PC Writer
Sin and Syntax
Today’s writers need more spunk than Strunk: whether it's the Great American e-mail, Madison Avenue advertising, or Grammy Award-winning rap lyrics, memorable writing must jump off the page. Copy veteran Constance Hale is on a mission to make creative communication, both the lyrical and the unlawful, an option for everyone.
With its crisp, witty tone, Sin and Syntax covers grammar’s ground rules while revealing countless unconventional syntax secrets (such as how to use—Gasp!—interjections or when to pepper your prose with slang) that make for sinfully good writing. Discover how to:
*Distinguish between words that are “pearls” and words that are “potatoes”
* Avoid “couch potato thinking” and “commitment phobia” when choosing verbs
* Use literary devices such as onomatopoeia, alliteration, and metaphor (and understand what you're doing)
Everyone needs to know how to write stylish prose—students, professionals, and seasoned writers alike. Whether you’re writing to sell, shock, or just sing, Sin and Syntax is the guide you need to improve your command of the English language.

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One Team
Team One's Reader v3.0 (.122)
Team One's Reader v3.0 is a improvement of Team One's Reader v2.0, which has been nominated by Pocket PC Magazine as a Best Product in the "e-Book Readers" category.
Team One's Reader v3.0 can read Microsoft's Compiled HTML format(*.chm), support all features including images, hyperlinks, and index(the left part of window when you view a *.chm file on PC).
Team One's Reader v3.0 new added a "mht module", which supports *.mht file. If you use the Internet Explorer on surfing, choose save as "Single Web file(*.mht)", then copy the file to Pocket PC, use Team One's Reader v3.0 to read it.
After manually added the new "Image module", Team One's Reader v3.0 can do as other Image Explorers do, which supports familiar image formats, such as: bmp, gif, jpeg, png.... You can drag, zoom in, zoom out the images.
Of course, Team One's Reader v3.0 keeps all welcome features in Team One's Reader v2.0. The registered users of Team One's Reader v2.0 are free to upgrade.
Supported formats: MHT, CHM, PDF, ZIP, PDB, PRC, JSP, CGI, PHP, ASP, XEB, XML, SHTML, SHTM, HTML, HTM, H, CPP, C, TXT. Total 20 formats.
After added Image module, supports: GIF, BMP, JPEG, JPG, PNG, 2BP. Total 6 formats.
New Features:
Supports up to 10 external storage cards.
Supports multi-language, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai...
Supports hyperlinks and the "back" function.
Supports displaying images, auto fits Pocket PC screen, manually drag, zoom in, zoom out.
The wallpaper can be hide to enlarge the area of the bookshelf.
Optional auto open last read.
Customizable toolbar buttons, customizable auto scroll.
After manually add the Image module, can do as a Image Explorer.
New added a mht module to support "Single Web file(*.mht)".
Improved chm module.

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Amazingo
Mazingo Custom Channel
I have been using this for almost 9 months now, and it works flawlessly. It is wonderful to screen capture all the web you want (for example this Pocket PC eBooks Watch, Drudge Report, F'd Company site) in easy steps.
Custom Channels allow you to specify your own URLs as personal Mazingo channels. It's simple and powerful technology.
Because of their power, our competitor recently BANNED custom channels. However, you will always be able to get them from Mazingo.
With Mazingo Custom Channels, you can have any Web page downloaded onto your device any time you sync. It works with both the Internet at large, and with corporate intranet sites. It is also useful for loading updated documents or database files.
Custom Channels are only available with a Mazingo Premium Subscription.

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  11/02/2002

@Travel
Fodor's Travel Publications
Fodor's eBooks bring the best travel information to you in a whole new way. The coverage is selective and includes choices for all budgets---the best things to see and do, and the top places to stay and eat. The advice is priceless---from expert sources who call home. And the format is ideal for when you're on the go---easy-to-read, interactive, and available right on your laptop or PDA, making planning a snap wherever you are.

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@God
God.com
God.com is a refreshing, unflinchingly honest approach to seeking our Creator. Witty, poignant, and surprising text draws today's techno-savvy readers to God's "home page," where they can learn to more fully understand and communicate with Him. In these pages, author James Langteaux boldy tackles some of our toughest questions about maintaining a relationship with an invisible being-discussing God as Father, Lover, and Best Friend. God.com helps readers identify and break down walls of fear so they can allow God's love and purposes to change their lives in profound ways. It invites us all to face the piercing, unpadded truth of God's passion for us and respond, reminding us that our maturity is at stake.
God.net
God.net invites readers to move beyond that first step and take a "road trip with God" into belief itself. Langteaux describes a trek filled both with amazing adventure and "deserts of the real"--painful moments that propel believers to greater depths and new insights in their walk with God. Written in Langteaux's powerful, poetic style, God.net shows readers how to rely on the safety net of God's Word, depend on the network of fellow believers, become better fishers of men, and enter the "rest of the story," the peace that comes only from living beyond belief.

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  11/01/2002

RamadhanKidz
Islamic eBook for Kids
Wonders of Allah's Creation
Children!
Have you ever asked yourself questions like these: How did our earth come into existence? How did the moon and sun come into being? Where were you before you were born? How did oceans, trees, animals appear on earth? Who was the first human being? Your mom gave birth to you. Yet the first human being could not have had parents. So, how did he come into existence?" In this book you will find the true answers to these questions.
for the Islam Kids homepage click here.

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OOP
Out-of-print on demand
The question is how valuable the books would remain as physical objects. And that depends on how they're made. It seems likely that print-on-demand could lead to a twin books culture. One strand would be the cheap, throwaway book: you pick all the cheapest options, you take your book on vacation, and you toss it or give it away when you're done reading it, like I now do with magazines when I'm traveling. The other strand would be the "permanent" book that you bought to keep or as a gift. Even more than now, the selection of books a person chose to keep would indicate their serious interests to visitors scanning their bookshelves.
Now, I know what you're going to say. You're going to say: eBooks. Certainly. For studying and required reading and frequently updated 700-page manuals for repairing airplanes. But for mystery novels to take to the beach? We're still a long way off from incorporating the all-weather, all-terrain convenience and readability of paper into an electronic device.
Original link comes from eBookweb.org

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No More Back Pack
Handheld Devices: Toward a More Mobile Campus
Most of the nation’s 3,913 accredited colleges and universities haven’t launched initiatives that recommend or require students to use handheld computers. Yet hundreds are experimenting with how to enhance learning with the mobile devices—hoping to leverage the coming convergence of wireless networks, Web services, and enterprise applications. Some pilot projects, like those at Western Carolina University in North Carolina and Loyola College in Maryland, are sputtering for lack of funds, or because they aren’t central to the college’s technology strategy yet.
...College educators can expect to be challenged by the paucity of academic software applications and e-textbooks for handhelds, the lack of professional development training on integrating handheld computers and wireless access into instruction, and the snail pace of providers of course management software to enable handheld computer access to their products’ learning tools.
"There has not been enough software written for academic purposes, and you can’t rely on faculty to create robust, enterprisewide applications for handhelds," says Ray Dannenhoffer, assistant dean for support services and director of medical computing at the University of Buffalo’s School of Medicine.
For the most part, colleges with handheld initiatives rely on basic productivity software such as word processors, spreadsheets, and calculators, and the ability of handhelds to view specially formatted Adode Acrobat Reader PDF files and a smattering of e-Books.
But there are some faculty who are exploiting the key attributes of handhelds to engage students in new ways and to assess their students’ understanding of subjects.

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Chicken Berry Soup
Taste-Berry Tales
There is a fruit called the Richardella-dulcisica, better known as the taste-berry. When eaten, it causes the taste buds to experience all food eaten afterwards--even distasteful food--as sweet and delicious. There are people who, through their love and compassion, make the lives of those with whom they come in contact better. Like the taste-berry, these people can turn a sour day into a joyful adventure. In a time when many of us have stopped believing in the goodness of humanity, we need to remind ourselves that though there is dissonance in the world, there is even more peace, kindness and love. In Taste-Berry Tales, Bettie B. Youngs inspires readers with 25 poignant short stories of real-life people who make a difference in the lives of others. These individuals, by their example, show us how to use the events of daily life to improve the world we live in and the lives of others with whom we share it. When we help others by sharing the sweetness of life's joys and easing the bitterness of its losses, we become, in the best sense of the words, "our brothers' keepers." Youngs plays this role for readers, showing them a world that is full of hope. Everyone who reads this book will discover that their dreams are not only possible, but also more glorious than they ever realized.

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Mabuhay
Philippine eBooks by Franklin
Includes subsection on Banking, Muslim law, Administrative Laws, Agrarians etc.
You need to download Franklin Reader for Pocket PC to read the ebooks.

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eMagazine
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, edited by Cathleen Jordan, was first published in December 1956, and maintains the Hitchcock tradition of good storytelling, high entertainment, and a multitude of surprises. For many years it has been the nation's most popular mystery magazine. Stories from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine have won Edgar awards for Best Short Story of the Year, Shamus awards for Best Private Eye Short Story of the Year, and Robert L. Fish awards for Best First Mystery Short Story of the Year.

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