Boom Time For On-Line Books?
by Adam Keller AUTHOR STEPHEN KING’S recent foray into e-book publishing has kicked off a new round of activity among book publishers and software developers looking to gain a foothold in the nascent market. Since last year, well-known book publishers such as Houghton Mifflin Co., The McGraw-Hill Cos. and Simon & Schuster Inc. have hooked up with software companies to convert books into digital format and enable them to be read on screen. Now Adobe Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are duking it out in the market for e-book reading software. In November at the Seybold Seminars conference in New York City, Adobe […]