peanutpress.com Announces Launch of New Peanut ReaderTM
Peanut ReaderTM Now Serves as Doc Reader for Non-Copyrighted Content
NEW YORK, N.Y. (PC Expo) – June 27, 2000 – peantpress.com, the handheld
eBook division of NetLibrary Inc., today announced the launch of version
3.1 of its Peanut ReaderTM software. In addition to enabling handheld
computer users to read popular fiction and non-fiction titles offered
at the peanutpress.com website, the latest version of the Peanut ReaderTM
supports the Doc reader format for the Palm Operating System.
"By launching this new version of the Peanut ReaderTM, we not only are
providing a better reading experience for the eBooks from peanutpress.com,
but also enabling Palm users to read a vast quantity of non-copyrighted
eTexts from across the Internet – without the use of an additional application
that consumes memory," said peanutpress.com Software Development Manager Lee
Fyock.
After the applications built into the Palm OS, document readers are the
utilities installed and used most often by Palm users. There are numerous
sites on the Web, such as Memoware.com, that offer public domain and/or
self-published materials that are read with document readers. Previously,
in order for users to be able to read both these materials and commercial
eBooks from peanutpress.com, they were required to install the Peanut ReaderTM
and an additional document reader on their Palm organizers. The recently
launched Peanut ReaderTM combines both functions to help Palm users
significantly decrease the amount of memory space used for applications.
The new Peanut ReaderTM features enhanced capabilities to provide a comfortable
and user-friendly reading environment for both peanutpress.com copyrighted
titles as well as free documents. These features include bookmarks,
annotations, standard and large fonts, autoscrolling, user selectable
screen orientation, and absolute page numbers.
"MemoWare is excited to see this extension to the Peanut ReaderTM software,
as it helps position the Peanut platform as a flexible and full-featured
e-text solution," said Memoware President Craig Froehle. Memoware.com is
one of the largest repositories of public domain eTexts available on the
Internet in Doc format.
"Most Star Trek fans also will recognize the title of book one in the
new series, 'Wagon Train to the Stars,' was Gene Roddenberry's working
title for the television series," added Segroves, "and it's gratifying
to see that title finally become an official part of the Star Trek canon."
Star Trek books are published by Pocket Books, an imprint of
Simon & Schuster.
In recent weeks peanutpress.com has added many new bestsellers and
popular titles. Among them are "Robert Ludlum's The Hades Factor"
by Robert Ludlum and Gayle Lynds, (St. Martin's Griffin);
"Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden (Vintage); "The New New Thing"
by Michael Lewis (W.W. Norton); "Angela's Ashes" and "'Tis" by
Frank McCourt (Scribner); "The Greatest Generation" and "The
Greatest Generation Speaks" by Tom Brokaw (Random House).
peanutpress.com also provides PDA versions of top news
publications such as Fast Company, Inc,
and The Wall Street Journal, Inc,
peanutpress.com is the handheld
eBook division of NetLibrary Inc., a leading provider of eBooks and
Internet-based content management services. Founded in 1998, peanutpress.com
securely distributes an extensive selection of popular fiction and non-fiction
eBooks from top publishers to users of Palm and Windows CE handheld organizers.
Contact:
Mike Segroves
peanutpress.com
(978) 897-4445, ext. 228
or (617) 605-5074 (Mobile)
mikes@peanutpress.com
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