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Press Room: Press Releases: Segroves |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Executive
Director Industry Pioneer Elected to Board of Directors of Leading eBook Group Mike Segroves of Palm Digital Media Joins Open eBook Forum«s Board New York, NY (August 19, 2002) ż Lending years of innovative technology experience to the eBook industry«s non-profit trade and standards organization, Palm Digital Media Director of Business Development Mike Segroves was elected to the Open eBook Forum board of directors. The announcement was made by Open eBook Forum Executive Director Nick Bogaty. The eBook industry is seeing real and substantial growth, said Bogaty. With the support of business leaders such as Mike, we are looking forward to continued industry progress led by the Open eBook Forum. As a member of the Open eBook Forum«s board of directors, Segroves will play an integral role in shaping the growth of the eBook industry developing standards, industry-wide consumer promotions and collecting market data. It is my belief that electronic books are destined to become a significant segment of the publishing industry, said Segroves. The Open eBook Forum is the ideal organization to effect and direct this change, by providing industry leadership and product advancements for eBook customers. A true pioneer in the field of electronic publishing, Segroves first began work with the fledgling technology at Modern Age Books, an electronic documentation and computer products manual supplier he founded in 1993. In 1998, he refocused Modern Age Books to become Books24x7.com, which remains the leading provider of online reference-ware for corporate IT departments. In 1999, Segroves joined Peanut Press as the Vice President of Marketing & Sales and has remained with the company through its evolution into Palm Digital Media, now part of PalmSource, the Palm OS subsidiary of Palm, Inc. Prior to his tenure in the electronic publishing industry, Segroves was a co-founder of SystemSoft Corporation, which was an early innovator and leader in supplying power managed system software to computer manufacturers and operating system developers including Intel, Microsoft and Go Corporation. He has been involved with the technology industry since 1965. Segroves joins the Board of Directors consisting of Tom Diaz of Adobe Systems; George Kerscher of the Daisy Consortium; Amanda Kimmel of Random House; Steve Potash of OverDrive, Inc.; Ed McCoyd of the Association of American Publishers and Rick Weingarten of the American Library Association. About the Open eBook Forum: 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 and OverDrive. Members include leading publishing companies such as Random House, Simon & Schuster, AOL Time Warner, McGraw-Hill, HarperCollins, Scholastic and Harcourt; and educational and government agencies including the Library of Congress, American Foundation for the Blind and the National Institute of Standards and Technology; and technology, device and service companies like netLibrary, a Division of OCLC, Inc., Palm Digital Media, Gemstar-TV Guide International and Sony. # # #
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