They expect the standard to accelerate the availability of electronic book content, according to a statement from the organization.
So Glassbook, based in Acton, Massachusetts, is working on Electronic Book Exchange (EBX) -- a standard covering this area.
This fully illustrated and animated electronic book brings Aesop into the digital age.
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The goal of electronic book technology is to provide a paperless environment for its users in education, government and the private sector, Walusis said.
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Google just opened its electronic book store, with 3 million titles.
Over the past few weeks, Bezos has introduced an ambitious scheme to stream video over the Web and gushed about his personal Kindle, the electronic book-reading gizmo Amazon launched late last year.
One likely consequence: much cheaper electronic book readers.
Many sites will throw in a nifty electronic address book and a reminder notice to keep track of important holidays.
Even the smallest independent bookstore will have access to a sophisticated electronic-book sales service with a vast selection of titles.
Restaurants use an electronic reservation book, and customers have access to its full inventory (though a block of tables can be set aside for unannounced regulars and celebrities).
Minitel is an electronic phone book most French have that can be used to buy anything that can be found online and has been used for around 20 years.
OpenTable ventured across the Atlantic with its Electronic Reservation Book product offering for restaurants in the U.K. in 2004, and followed up by setting shop in Japan and Germany in 2006 and 2007 respectively.
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Some 500 people have been given electronic-book readers, a gadget the size of a paperback with a screen like that of a laptop computer and a slot to take a memory card that can store three or four novels.
The pair checked NASD regulations and discovered that there were no rules preventing this, so they created software and a network of personal computers that would simulate a giant electronic limit order book.
The Kindle enables the user to read the electronic copy of a book on the move without worrying about the weight and volume that is usually associated with a physical book.
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When Amazon's Kindle arrived last November, some techie bookworms marveled at its innovative electronic ink screen and speedy wireless book downloads.
Aside from such glaring omissions as a basic camera and external LCD, it does sport a very pocket-friendly design, simplistic style, MP3 playback, an electronic dictionary, questionable e-book functionality, GPS, and 128MB of built-in memory.
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But where Palin has mostly limited herself to an electronic presence in advance of her book release this month, Bachmann has supplemented her Web efforts with stops at dozens of key conservative gatherings, including high-profile events such as the annual Conservative Political Action Conference and the Family Research Council's Values Voter Summit.
And so, the disposability of electronic media is actually something that makes book people sad, but book readers happy.
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The US government suing the technology giant Apple and some major book publishers, over the price of electronic books.
With the future of reading heading squarely in the direction of electronic devices, what to do with the old timey book form?
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You can play traditional publishers off various forms of electronic and self-publishing and keep more of the total book spend.
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That's because, just two years after Amazon's Kindle kicked open the e-book category, consumers' attention span for yet another electronic reader launch looks to have waned.
The other big news is that the Obama Department of Justice sued Apple and book publishers for alleged antitrust violations over the price of electronic books.
The e-book's creators say that they were turning over electronic treatments for books such as "Dawn Treader" well before technology for devices such the iPad, or Samsung's Galaxy, which was released this week, even existed.
It's certainly not the first book to take advantage of the new features rolling out as electronic-reading technology advances.
"Amazon has built a very strong relationship with e-book buying consumers that were the first wave of adopters of electronic readers, " says Epps.
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