eReader.com is the first electronic book publisher to offer contemporary fiction and non-fiction books, newspapers, and magazines for reading on handheld computers including the Palm Organizer, Sony Clié, Handspring Visor, and Pocket PC machines. Discover new reasons to carry your handheld while you work, play, and travel.

You've done the heavy lifting. From manuscript to first edition, you've wrought a work of art. Now, thanks to industry-standard publishing tools from Adobe, you can make your book available for sale on the Web – with no significant change to your current workflow. With just a few clicks of your mouse, you can release any title in your library as an Adobe® PDF based eBook – with the same artwork, typography, and graphic design as in the print edition. The time-to-market advantage you gain by using Adobe's products is your competitive edge, and enhances the return on your investment in publishing technology.

The Microsoft eBooks Story. From authors to readers: the A-to-Z solution for electronic reading.

From the moment Franklin introduced the world's first handheld eBook in 1986, the Company has been exploiting the potential of eBooks to create a fundamentally new way of reading. Today, we aim to build upon our expertise as the worldwide leader in eBooks in several ways. First, we have created the next generation in eBook hardware with eBookman®, the world's first handheld eBook reader that has both an open but secure architecture, is affordable, can be carried in your pocket, and gives you an optimal reading experience. Second, we strive to bring Franklin's high-quality eBook content to a wide audience of users by making it available for any platform, including today's popular Palm®, Windows CE®, and Psion handheld devices. Third, we are transforming our web site into an eBookstore where readers can come to find a wide range of titles from the most respected content providers.

Mobipocket.com is the universal reader for PDAs: the Mobipocket software package is freely downloadable, and consists of publishing and reading tools dedicated to PDA devices (Windows CE, Palm OS and Psion). The software is developed internally by Mobipocket and allows owners of PDAs to have access to a personalized press review, the reading of classic and contemporary ebooks, and a secure reading system.

Lightning Source Inc., a subsidiary of Ingram Industries Inc., offers a package of digital fulfillment and printing services to the book industry

Baker & Taylor is a leading supplier of books, movies, music, and information products to libraries and retailers worldwide. The BTOL website will provide you with up-to-date information about Baker & Taylor, as well as important information for your market.

The Idea Logical Company, Inc. offers strategic consulting, publishing and marketing consulting; and content creation for all media.

Market Partners International, Inc. is the first consulting firm dedicated to consumer publishing. Its principals have over 40 years of industry experience relating to strategic planning, content development, marketing, sales and fulfillment, operations and executive search. Established in January of 1990, the firm also issues Publishing Trends, a monthly newsletter read by senior publishing professionals in 21 countries around the world, and writes regular columns for Inside.com.

Publishers Lunch is the industry's "daily essential read," now shared with well over 8,000 publishing people every day. Each report gathers together stories from all over the web and print of interest to the professional trade book community, along with original reporting, plus a little perspective and the occasional wisecrack added in.

The Digital Object Identifier (DOI®) is a system for identifying and exchanging intellectual property in the digital environment. It provides a framework for managing intellectual content, for linking customers with content suppliers, for facilitating electronic commerce, and enabling automated copyright management for all types of media. Using DOIs makes managing intellectual property in a networked environment much easier and more convenient, and allows the construction of automated services and transactions for e-commerce.

The Open eBook Forum (OeBF) is an international trade and standards organization. Our members consist of hardware and software companies, publishers, authors, users of electronic books, and related organizations whose common goals are to establish specifications and standards for electronic publishing. The Forum’s work will foster the development of applications and products that will benefit creators of content, makers of reading systems and, most importantly, consumers.