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Palm acquires eBooks; Dreamcatcher special

updated 10:30 am EST, Mon March 19, 2001

 
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Palm has acquired peanutpress.com, an eBook publisher and distributor for handheld computers and has a special limited time promotion on Stephen King's upcoming Dreamcatcher eBook.

The deal includes a web-based storefront that includes
2,000 titles from most of the major U.S. publishing houses and the Peanut Reader, the company's eBook reader application that will be rebranded as the Palm Reader. Stephen King's latest novel, Dreamcatcher, will be introduced simultaneously as a Palm eBook and as a hardcover book on March 20 and will be available through March 23 for $15 in an introductory offer. The Palm Reader will ship with Palm's new m500 series handhelds along with along with two eBooks.


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    :)

    I'd say it is a most excellent fit. And it ought to be the final nail in the coffin for Microsoft's "E-books".--Tom Barta

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    Peanut Press

    I've used Peanut Press with my palm for almost a year and it's an excellent piece of software. The company's main short-coming (and I find the same problem with Audible.com) was its lack of titles available for the format; most titles you were looking for just didn't exist for the Palm. Hopefully now that they're going to gain a larger installed base with the forthcoming PalmOS4 the available titles will skyrocket.
    Has anyone noticed that Palm seems to be buying up lots of small palmOS companies and folding them into their larger corporate umbrella? Anyday.com has become MyPalm, PeanutPress is now part of the OS...

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    SK dosen't get e-pubs ye

    I love Stephen King, but he doesn't seem to get the difference between regular publishing and e-publishing yet. You can't charge the same for an electronic version as for a real book and expect people not to pick the book. Randommaccess did a good story about it a little while ago. It's at
    http://www.randommaccess.com/newspro/talkback/976202370,54033,.shtml

    Cheers

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    I travel w/ peanut reader

    When I discovered Peanut Reader about a year ago, I stopped carrying books on the road. Now, I usually carry 2 or 3 eBooks from Peanut Press every month when I go "a travelin!" It's been great and very convenient. And as a side note Peanut Reader lets you make your own books. I carry company documents and my own notes in Peanut Reader format, saving memory on my Palm V and it makes my material easy to access and use! What a great service!!!

    All I ask is for "MORE TITLES!" please...

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    SF and Peanut Press

    I've been using Peanut Press for over a year and I love it. It's a great source for science fiction and especially the monthly SF magazines.

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