The E-Book: Today and Tomorrow

presented by Hope Tillman, Babson College and
Walt Howe, Delphi.com at Internet Librarian 2001, Pasadena, California, November 5, 2001

• See references at Planet Ebook for current hardware reviews

For Palm OS:

Adobe Acrobat
• Aportis
• Iambic
• isilo
• MobiPocket
• Palm Reader formerly Peanut (for Palm, Windows CE)
• Primer PDF
• Qvadis Express

For Franklin OS

• eBookMan
• MobiPocket

For OEB

• Echyon Reader
• Flip Browser

For PC

• Adobe Acrobat
• Ebrary Info Tools
• Hiebook (for Hiebook)
• Microsoft Reader (for PCs)
• MobiPocket
• NetLibrary ebook reader (for PCs)

For Windows CE

• MobiPocket
• Palm Reader formerly Peanut (for Palm, Windows CE)

There is even a reader for the Gameboy

• Bookwormie - multilingual (different character sets)
• BrailleNote and Voice Note (by Pulse Data)
• SmartReader for math, science, and engineering
• SVC Viewer (scalable vector graphics) by Spatial Information Systems
• TK3 Reader (multimedia) by Nightkitchen
• ActiveLibrary - by Wax Info for KM projects

Converting

• Memoware Table
• Adobe Acrobat 5.0-
• Acrobat Readerl
• Acrobat eBook Reader
• Activ E-book Compiler
• Microsoft Reader
• Overdrive
• Rocket Writer
• X-It (Quark to XML)

Bookstores/Publishers

• Barnes and Noble
• Powells
• NetLibrary
• McGraw-Hill
• Random House
• Simon & Schuster
• Time Warner's iPublish

Vanity Publishers

• 1st Books
• BiblioBytes
>Book Locker
• Buy Books on the Web
• eWriter Press
• Mightywords eMatter
• NightKitchen
• Online Originals
• Spirit Virtual Books
• TK3 by NightKitchen
• Universal Publishers
• Xlibris

Morphing of Book Sellers (Vanity Publishing Plus)

• Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts
• Bookface.com
: Out of business but distributed by Wildsidepress.com
• BookonWeb
• Contentville - recently closed
• Fictionwise
• Knowbetter.com
• The Library Place

Books on Demand

• Mightywords eMatter
• iPublisher
• St. Barthelemy Press

Audio eBooks

• Audible
• isSound

Digital Textbooks (K-12 and beyond)

• Wizeup
• Versaware
• Metatext (from NetLibrary)
• eStudySolutions
• Harcourt e-Learning
• Jones Knowledge.com
• Blackboard

Sampling Textbook Publishing

• Addison Wesley statistics
• Elementary Statistics by Triola
• Allyn & Bacon/Longman (Pearson)
• Southwestern Publishing
• Thomson Learning

Companies Focusing on Library Community

• NetLibrary
• Questia
• Ebrary
• MeansBusiness

Standards: E-Book

• Open eBook Forum

• XRML
• InterTrust
• Reciprocal
• Rights Market

• Book Industry Study Group EBX

• MeansBusiness
• the Making of America
• Tufts Perseus Project

• Chris Rippel's Online notes for e-book preconference at Kansas Triconference 2000

• Babson College
• North Carolina State University
• Charlotte and Mecklenberg County
• Worthington Ohio
• Springfield-Greenfield County Library District

• Hawkins, Donald T. Electronic Books. Online: part 1, July/August 2000, and part 2, September/October 2000
• Lynch, Clifford. Electrifying the Book, Library Journal Supplement Net Connect: part 1, October 15, 1999, and part 2, January 2000
• Ohler, Jason. Taming the Technological Beast: The Case of the E-Book. The Futurist, January-February 2001, pp. 16-21
• Randolph, Susan E. Are e-books in Your Future? Information Outlook, February 2001, pp. 22-28
• Rheingold, Howard, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1993

Reference Sites

• KnowBetter.com, E-book Information Source

• Planet eBook

Supporting Power Point file

Walt Howe's Internet Learning Center
Hope's Home Page

November 5, 2001