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Press Room: Press Releases: Digital Magazine Vendors |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Director Digital Magazine and Newspaper Vendors to Compete at Tablet PC Digital Publishing Conference Zinio, NewsStand and Olive Software to Demonstrate Paperless Periodicals at December 5th Forum in NYC New York, New York, December 2, 2002: For the first time on one stage the leading electronic publishing vendors will be demonstrating how consumers can instantly receive their favorite newspapers, magazines and periodicals á electronically. In addition to the session where Zinio, NewsStand and Olive Software demonstrate their competing solutions, Microsoft, Adobe and Palm Digital Media will present their competing digital publishing tools that enable publishers to take advantage of the reading enhancements of the Tablet PC. óPDF versus XML, online versus offline reading, and which business model consumers will accept for digital reading are among the issues that will be presented on Dec. 5th,Ç stated OverDrive CEO Steve Potash who will chair the Tablet PC Digital Publishing Conference. Registration and event information for the one-day conference is available at www.openebook.org/tabletpc which will be held at the McGraw-Hill Auditorium located at 1221 Avenue of the Americas in New York City. The keynote presentation will be óThe Vision for On-Screen Reading,Ç delivered by John Frederiksen, eReading Group Manager, Microsoft Corporation. The conference is being presented by the Open eBook Forum, an international trade and standards body promoting the success and growth of digital reading applications and solutions. Sponsors for the event include Microsoft Corporation, AOL Time Warner Book Group, Accenture, Adobe Systems, OverDrive, Palm Digital Media, McGraw-Hill, New York University Center for Publishing and Fujitsu. Tablet PCs combine the features of today´s powerful and mobile personal computers with Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system with unique usability characteristics. Tablet PC devices became available on November 7th from a wide range of manufacturers, including HP, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Acer, ViewSonic and Motion Computing. About the OeBF The Open eBook Forum, http://www.openebook.org, is an international non-profit trade and standards organization for the electronic book publishing industry. Gold Sponsoring Members include technology leaders Microsoft Corporation, Adobe Systems, Palm Digital Media and OverDrive, Inc. Members include leading publishing companies such as Random House, Simon & Schuster, AOL Time Warner Book Group, McGraw-Hill, HarperCollins and Reed Elsevier; and educational and government agencies including the Library of Congress, American Foundation for the Blind and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
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