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MS is due to release a tablet PC this Fall. It looks like they will be touting it as an e-book reader device. Why else have secret discussions with publishers?
Microsoft Corp. is in discussions with executives at a handful of major publishing companies to make content -- and advertising -- from their publications available on its highly anticipated TabletPC.




- Metadata Is Marketing
Increase Sales & Lower Costs: A Step-By-Step ONIX Guide for Publishers. ONIX (Online Information Exchange) is the standard in the publishing industry for computer-to-computer communication about bibliographic data. Basically, it allows you to represent...

- Open Publication Distribution System (opds) Catalog Format For Digital Content
Version 1.0 of the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) Catalog format for digital content has been released.The open ebook community and the Internet Archive are pleased to announce the release of the first production version of the Open Publication...

- Cataloging Research
?Just where?s the damn book?,? or, Rediscovering the art of cataloging by Chad P. Abel-Kops is now available on E-LIS.Current discussions on the future of cataloging describe a "crisis" that has been going on longer than most realize. However, new challenges...

- Tagging At Microsoft
Now Microsoft is doing tagging.Microsoft.com Tagspace is all about giving you, the consumer of content on Microsoft.com and associated sites, the power to identify, define, catalogue, and share what interests you, in ways that make sense to you.This beta...

- E-books
The latest Journal of Digital Information has the article Many Outputs ? Many Inputs: XML for Publishers and E-book Designers by Terje Hillesund. Argues that XML will not allow publishers to generate many expressions from one entity.This essay questions...



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