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Tuesday, November 21, 2000
Mibrary Announces Ebook Innovation Award Finalists
Mibrary, a digital library software company, has announced the
finalists for the company's first annual award recognizing
the largest contributor to the advancement and popularization
of electronic books. The winner of the will be announced prior
to the keynote address at the BookTech West 2000 conference
in San Francisco on December 11. Mibrary's award is named for
Dr. Alan Kay, who is considered to be a founding father of the eBook.
The finalists, from which the winner of the Alan Kay Award
for eBook Innovation will be chosen, include:
- Stephen King's Philtrum Press: For the exposure he gave to
the electronic book format through the release of his bestseller
Riding The Bullet, as well as publishing his newest
novel, The Plant exclusively in electronic installments.
- Gemstar: For the company's development and licensing of
two electronic reading devices, the REB
1100 and the REB 1200.
- Microsoft Corporation: For the company's
Microsoft Reader and ClearType technologies.
``It is a great honor to be mentioned in connection with this
award,'' said author Stephen King. ``The ebook revolution has
been one of the most exciting things to happen to me in the
last two or three years, and I am delighted to think that I
have had even a small part to play in changing the way the
culture reads and expanding the market place for good books.''
The winner of this annual award will be selected by popular vote
at the Mibrary Web site http://awards.mibrary.com. Final
balloting to determine the winner will conclude at midnight
on Friday, December 1st.
The winner will receive the Steuben Pillar Crystal created by
designer David Dowler. In addition, Mibrary will make a
$5,000 contribution in the name of the winner to the Association
of American Publishers' ``Get Caught Reading'' program.
``We're excited to see who will eventually be named the winner
of Mibrary's first Alan Kay Award for eBook Innovation,'' said
James Alexander, Chief Executive Officer of Mibrary. ``Each of
the three finalists have contributed immensely to popularizing
the ebook and proving that it is a viable route for the
publishing industry.''
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