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Adobe Launches Its Own Online Store for E-Books

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 18, 2003 - 4:45am.
San Jose, Calif. -- In a surprise boost for the struggling e-book industry, Adobe Systems, a developer of desktop and Web publishing, has launched its own online store for e-books. The company partnered with Cleveland-based e-library creator OverDrive to develop the Adobe Digital Media Store, which will sell e-books as well as digital magazines and newspapers, maps and other documents in Adobe's proprietary PDF format. The store will also be accessible through direct purchase links embedded in Adobe's Reader and Acrobat 6.0 applications. Available titles will come from existing OverDrive partners including HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Random House, Time Warner, John Wiley and McGraw-Hill, as well as many independent authors and small publishers. The decision by Adobe to become an e-book retailer comes three months after Barnes & Noble decided to stop selling titles in e-book format due to sluggish sales.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/031217/175174_1.html 
http://www.overdrive.com 
http://www.digitalmediastore.adobe.com
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