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Franklin Cuts Deals For More Ebookman Content
In a series of seperate announcements,
Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. , a provider of
handheld ebook reading devices, announced several new
content agreements with publishers and content providers.
The agreements include deals with The Wall Street Journal,
Alexandria Digital Literature, St. Martin's Press, Reciprocal Inc. and
Mobipocket.com. Franklin produces the Franklin eBookMan,
a device which allows people to read books, listen to
music and audio books and organize their day. Franklin is
trying to expand the content available for use with this device.
Franklin's recent content deals include:
- Highlights from The Wall Street Journal Online will be
available to users of the Franklin eBookMan.
This content, which is optimized for
mobile devices, will consist of top news summaries of the
day plus selected news features, and initially will be
available to all purchasers of the eBookMan at no
additional charge.
- Electronic book publisher Alexandria Digital Literature,
Inc. (AlexLit) announced that
Showtime Networks Original Pictures
premieres the television adaptation of Bruce
Holland Rogers' story,
``Lifeboat on a Burning Sea'' June 29, at 8 p.m. Renamed
The Other Side, it's part of Showtime's trilogy
On The Edge.
AlexLit, a growing, privately held company, is the
exclusive ebook publisher for Rogers' story.
The Company has partnered with Franklin Electronic Publishers,
in a promotion for the eBookMan reader.
The two companies recently entered into an agreement under
which AlexLit will use Franklin's Content Developers' Kit for
eBookMan to convert their full library of over 700 ebooks
into Franklin's tagged format for reading on eBookMan.
Franklin will provide free downloads of ``Lifeboat'' to
eBookMan users at PC Expo in New York, June 26 to 28.
eBookMan users can download the title for free from
Franklin's website through July 1. This promotion coincides
with Showtime's premiere of The Other Side.
- Franklin Electronic Publishers and St.
Martin's Press, are working together to make St. Martin's
library of electronic content available for the Franklin's
eBookMan. Robert Ludlum is one of the bestselling authors
on St. Martin's roster
that eBookMan users will have access to. Ludlum published his
first thriller in 1971 and has since written 21 bestsellers
including The Hades Factor, The Prometheus Deception and The
Cassandra Compact. All of Ludlum's novels are still in print.
- Reciprocal, Inc., a
provider of digital content distribution services,
will also have a strategic relationship
that is targeted to expand the availability of electronic
books and other digital content for Franklin's eBookMan.
Reciprocal will integrate
Franklin's DRM technologies with the Reciprocal Digital
Clearing Service and other Reciprocal digital distribution
tools, ultimately enabling eBookMan users to download
electronic content in a variety of formats, from a variety
of sources.
- Franklin Electronic Publishers. and
MobiPocket.com S.A. of Paris, France, a company partially
financed by Viventures Partners, created by
Vivendi Universal, announced an agreement by
which the companies will bring electronic books, web-based
information services, and office applications to Franklin's
eBookMan. A beta version
of the MobiPocket Reader, which allows eBookMan users to
read electronic books on the go, is now available for
download from franklin.com. With MobiPocket Reader
for eBookMan, readers have access to more than
fifteen hundred electronic books in English, French, German
and Spanish from publishers such as Vivendi Universal
Publishing (that has recently acquired the US-based
publisher Houghton Mifflin) and Taylor and Francis.
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