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NUMBER 025 (December 2001)

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NEWS AND ARTICLES

Audio E-Books Seek a Buzz That sound you hear is audio e-books, magazines and newspapers clamoring for attention. Also: Hitchhiker's guide to his hard drive ... the language of digital rights ... and more in M.J. Rose's notebook. Online Library Expands Database Ebrary adds scientific, medical and business titles from key professional publishers. Also: Struggling netLibrary gets a lifeline, and book clubs unite, all in M.J. Rose's notebook. Simon Says: Buy E-Books Here Simon & Schuster gets into the retail biz. Also: Writers wish AOL would have asked ... dispatches from an environmentally friendly essayist ... and more, in M.J. Rose's notebook. The instant book that wasn't "9/11 8:48" -- the first book published about the terrorist attacks -- was print-on-demand. So why wasn't it available everywhere, immediately?

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SOFTWARE
Shareware and freeware: Selingua Selingua is a vocabulary training program with extensive built-in dictionaries -- more than 2000 words in each of the following languages: English (both American and British), German, Spanish, French and Swedish. There are six different exercises for practicing vocabulary and verb inflections, including a crossword exercise. Users can also add their own words to the dictionaries. There are two limitations in the shareware version: there are only 500 words in each language, and you can not add your own words to the dictionaries. Find more information here (SHAREWARE).
Other software:
Adobe® Acrobat® Reader Free and freely distributable software that lets you view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files.   Adobe® Acrobat® eBook Reader This new free software enables you to read high-fidelity ebooks on your desktop computer.
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