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EBOOK – FREE ACCESS AND READING 1
Running head: EBOOK – FREE ACCESS AND READING
Ebook – Free Access and Reading:
Eluding the Flamethrower and the Mechanical Hound
Maryann Muhilly
INFO 653 Digital Llibraries
Drexel University
Dr. Laura Cheng
June 13, 2012EBOOK – FREE ACCESS AND READING 2
Table of Contents
Abstract – page 3
Part 1:
Introduction – pages 4-5
Ebook Definition and Reading Habits – pages 6-8
Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, and Google Books -- Public Domain – pages 8-10
Ebook Licensing for Libraries – pages 10-11
Conclusion – pages 11-12
Part 2:
Sample Survey of Ebook Reading Habits – page 13
Appendix -- Recommended Resources for Ebooks, Publishing, and Open Access
pages 14-18
References – pages 19-21
Certification Statement – page 22EBOOK – FREE ACCESS AND READING 3
Abstract
Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 offers cautionary reading about the danger of
obsolescence for print books that are ultimately saved when individuals commit printed
words to memory. The dramatic rise in the reading of ebooks from 2008-2012 testifies to
the evolving habits of readers who now read ebooks on ereaders and other electronic
devices in addition to reading print books. Print-on-demand machines like the Espresso
Book Machine can offer an alternative to ebooks by providing a print version of a digital
file. Three digital libraries – Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, and Google Books –
offer free ebooks from public domain that can be downloaded to electronic devices.
Libraries, currently negotiating with the publishing companies for equitable fees for
ebook collections, are another source of free ebooks. Eventually, reading of ebooks
should encourage a social constructivist environment through connecting reading to
commentary, critique, and contextual information; through reading as social community
activity; and through reading as participatory experience. A new paradigm of the book
ecosystem will incorporate conventional print books, print-on-demand books, ebooks,
and enhanced ebooks.EBOOK – FREE ACCESS AND READING 4
Part 1:
Introduction
Eluding the Mechanical Hound after Guy Montag uses a flamethrower to burn his
house, his cache of books, and a man, Montag meets Granger and four other men at a
campfire. Granger inquires about what Montag has to offer. Montag claims that he has
part of the Book of Ecclesiastes and a little of Revelation in his head. Although another
man Harris also has the Book of Ecclesiastes, Granger warns Montag, “Walk carefully.
Guard your health. If anything happens to Harris, you are Ecclesiastes” (Bradbury,
1953/1995, p. 317). When Montag fears he has forgotten Ecclesiastes, Granger informs
him of a procedure that will enable recalling anything that has been read once. Granger
announces the purpose of each individual as a repository of the written word – from the
works of Plato to those of Mahatma Gandhi: “All we want to do is to keep the knowledge
we think we will need intact and safe” (Bradbury, 1953/1995, p. 320). Granger describes
human book repositories as “dust jackets for books, of no other significance otherwise”
(Bradbury, 1953/1995, p. 322). After destruction by the atomic bomb, books can be
written again when people who retain memory of the written word will set books in type
until the inevitable arrival of the next Dark Age for books. On their journey along the
river, the men share one purpose: “ . . . they were sure of nothing save that the books
were on file behind their quiet eyes, the books were waiting, with their pages uncut, for
the customers who might come by in later years, some with clean and some with dirty
fingers” (Bradbury, 1953/1995, p 326). Post war, Montag recalls the words of RevelationEBOOK – FREE ACCESS AND READING 5
22 about the leaves on the tree of life – or perhaps the leaves as the pages of books – that
will heal nations.
On the new iPad 2, tap on the iBooks built-in app, click on the Store button, watch
the virtual bookshelf rotate, key in Fahrenheit 451, select an ebook version of the novel,
click on the price button, confirm the purchase through an iTunes account, and an ebook
of Bradbury’s 1953 dystopian novel will be delivered to iBooks on the new iPad. Go to
Google Play bookstore, click on the button for Buy Books, and look at the slideshow of
images for a link to Ray Bradbury’s books with the acknowledgement of Bradbury’s
recent death: In Memoriam 1920-2012.
https://play.google.com/store/books?feature=corpus_selector
With Google Play, the user selects the device for delivery of the ebook: Android,
iPhone/iPad, laptop, and desktop. Google provides additional directions for transferring
the ebook as an EPUB or PDF through Adobe Digital Editions Desktop Reader for
laptops and computers as well as directions for transferring the ebook to supported
ereader devices like the Nook and Sony Reader. Currently, Google Books cannot be
downloaded to the Kindle. If a participating library uses OverDrive for ebook delivery,
download the OverDrive Media Console for desktop and mobile platforms, check for the
availability of the Bradbury title in the OPAC, and download the free ebook. Other
vendors of ebooks for libraries include Baker & Taylor, Freading, and 3M Cloud Library
(Polanka, 2012, An Ebook Primer). Polanka (2012) cites a summer 2011 survey by the
Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA) that indicates 39% of public libraries
have not begun to offer downloadable media service to their patrons (An Ebook Primer).
Ebooks, however, offer another format for publishing, disseminating, consuming, andEBOOK – FREE ACCESS AND READING 6
preserving the written word that will help to elude the flamethrower and the Mechanical
Hound.
Ebook Definition and Reading Habits
In its BookStats and Publishing Industry Glossary, The Association of American
Publishers (AAP) defines ebook as “works that are direct or very similar facsimiles of
printed originals developed initially or exclusively for electronic format. These could
contain some hyperlinks.” Armstrong (2008) provides another definition of ebook: “ . . .
any content that is recognizably ‘book-like,’ regardless of size, origin or composition, but
excluding journal publications, made available electronically for reference or reading on
any device (handheld or deskbound) that includes a screen” (p. 199). The AAP
distinguishes types of digital format: ebooks, enhanced ebooks, non-physical audio
books, paid mobile apps, Internet-based products and services, and bundled products.
Tracking the increases in ebook sales, the AAP announced an increase of 1039.6% in net-
unit sales growth from 2008 to 2010. The Pew Internet & American Life Project in The
Rise of E-reading (2012) reports the habits of Americans who read ebooks: “Those who
have taken the plunge into reading e-books stand out in almost every way from other
kinds of readers” (p. 3). The study provides a statistical breakdown as well as a list of the
ways in which readers of ebooks stand out:
• Ebook readers are relatively avid readers of books in all formats: 88% of those
who read ebooks in the past 12 months also read print books
• One-fifth of American adults [21%] have read an ebook in the past year
• Ebook readers read more frequently for a host of reasons: pleasure, research,
current events, work, schoolEBOOK – FREE ACCESS AND READING 7
• Ebook readers are more likely to have bought their most recent book, than to have
borrowed it [71% of ereader owners]
• Ebook readers are more likely to prefer buying books in general, and often start
their book search online (The Rise of E-reading, p. 3).
The Pew study of 2,571 Internet users 16 years old and older contends that four times
more people read ebooks on a typical day now than was the case two years ago. The
Horizon Report (2012) identifies electronic books as a one year or less time-to-adoption
horizon: “Audiovisual, interactive, and social elements enhance the informational
content of books and magazines . . . . The content of electronic books and the social
activities they enable, rather than the device used to access them are keys to their
popularity . . . (p. 8). IDEO’s Future of the Book video introduces Nelson, Coupland, and
Alice as futuristic ways to read digital text and to build communities around books: “ . . .
exploration of digital reading that seeks to identify new opportunities for readers,
publishers, and authors to discover, consume, and connect in different formats.
http://vimeo.com/15142335 IDEO’s video won the 2012 Webby Award in the
Experimental & Weird category. Nelson connects reading to commentary, critique, and
contextual information; Coupland encourages reading as a social community around
which book collections grow; Alice makes digital reading non-linear and participatory.
IDEO has identified three distinct areas for innovations with digital text: new narratives,
social reading with richer content, and tools for critical thinking. O brave new world, /
that has such ebooks in it! [based on Miranda’s pronouncement in Shakespeare’s The
Tempest (V.i): “How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, / that has such people
in’t.”]. Former Random House editorial director Jason Epstein, co-founder of OnEBOOK – FREE ACCESS AND READING 8
Demand Books that markets the Espresso Book Machine for print-on-demand (POD)
books for libraries and bookstores, continues with the brave new world allusion when he
speculates, “Imagine if all of the printed books disappeared . . . . If we blew a fuse, we’d
all be savages again. Whoever we are is in these books” (as quoted in Glazer, 2009, p.
482). The Espresso Book Machine can dispense a paperbound book in five minutes from
a digital file using ink-jet technology for immediate pick-up at point-of-sale or for
delivery. The Espresso POD technology offers an alternative to ebooks because the Pew
study (2012) acknowledges that readers express preferences between ebook and print
book depending on the topic, purpose, and place of reading.
Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, and Google Books – Public Domain
Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive represent two large collections of works
in public domain whose copyright has expired and which offer access to free ebooks.
Michael Hart, the creator of Project Gutenberg, is also credited with creating the first
ebook of The Declaration of Independence in 1971. Currently, Project Gutenberg offers
36,000 books for free download to laptop or desktop as well as to mobile devices and
ereaders. The homepage indicates that over 100,000 etexts are available through their
partners, affiliates, and resources that can offer additional texts because of the different
copyright regulations of other countries. Project Gutenberg recommends Eucalyptus, an
updated 2012 Apple app [cost $9.99] that provides 20,000 downloadable copies of
Project Gutenberg texts. Himalaya, a free app also recommended on the Project
Gutenberg site, functions as an ereader that can access Project Gutenberg texts. Apple’s
iBookstore also contains most Project Gutenberg texts; however, to ensure downloading
the latest edition of the text, the user can access the Project Gutenberg site and the EPUBEBOOK – FREE ACCESS AND READING 9
format of the text. The user can then open the EPUB text in iBooks on the iPhone, iPod,
or iPad. Divakar (2012) explains that Project Gutenberg etexts are presented in “Plain
Vanilla ASCII which is considered to be easy on the eyes and the computer” (p. 112).
Michael Hart’s obituary memorializing his death in 2011 references a passage from
George Bernard Shaw’s Maxims for Revolutionists (1903) about the power of
unreasonable people as among Hart’s favorite quotes: "Reasonable people adapt
themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves.
All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people." Project Gutenberg, which uses
a voluntary donation system for funding along with grants and partnerships, has a simple
mission: “to encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks.”
Another open access repository, Internet Archive identifies itself as a “non-profit
digital library offering free universal access to books, movies, & music as well as 150
million archived web pages.” For example, a search for Aldous Huxley’s Brave New
World produces an ebook of the novel that can be accessed and can be read online or in a
variety of formats: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Daisy, DiVu. Brewster Kahle established
Internet Archive, offering free access to over three million public domain books, in 1996.
Donations, grants, partnerships, and the Kahle-Austin Foundation support the open
access to Internet Archive artifacts.
Finally, initiated in 2004, Google Books including Google Books Library Project
and Google Partners Program has currently scanned over 20 million books into its digital
library. The Google Books interface now has a search window for researching a topic
and a Google Play button for browsing the world’s largest bookstore for downloading
ebooks to laptop, desktop, tablet, phone, or ereader. If a title is in the public domain likeEBOOK – FREE ACCESS AND READING 10
Shakespeare’s The Tempest, then Google Books offers reading the entire play online. The
user can also download the ebook as EPUB or PDF, and for example, the downloaded
EPUB or PDF could be opened in iBooks. Google Books allows users to view a sample
of the ebook, to enter a title in My Library, to write a review, to rate the book, and to find
other booksellers who carry the book. The link for find in a library connects the user to
WorldCat where the user can search for a library that holds the book. Google Books also
features advanced search options. Singel (2009) describes Google’s deal with On
Demand Books to print books from Google Books to an Espresso Book Machine at a
point-of-sale where the user can pick up a print copy or can request shipping of the print
copy. For example, Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge, MA has an Espresso Book
Machine. Under Get this book in print in Google Books, the user clicks on On Demand
Books for a list of bookstores with Espresso Book Machines, the option to ship the book,
and the cost of the printed book. The Harvard Bookstore will print The Tempest from its
Espresso Book Machine and will ship the book for a cost of $7.10 plus shipping, or the
On Demand Book can be picked up at Harvard Bookstore for $7.10. These three digital
libraries – Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, and Google Books – offer over millions
of ebooks in public domain for free reader access.
Ebook Licensing for Libraries
Licensing of ebooks for libraries has emerged as an important issue because of the
changing relationships between ebook publishers and libraries. The ebook is often
tethered to a particular device because of Digital Rights Management (DRM) restrictions.
These restrictions affect the access, pricing, utility, privacy, and preservation of ebooks.
Hamaker (2011) in his article with the interesting title Ebooks on Fire promotesEBOOK – FREE ACCESS AND READING 11
affordable shared access of ebooks as an option “that would actually boost our
intellectual capital, as different individuals could read and comment on the same text
together.” Hamaker (2011) advocates for multiple use access for library ebooks: “What a
boon it would be for educational purposes if all ebooks for academia came with multiple
use capabilities supporting multiple readers and joint annotation as well as multimedia
integration.” For example, in March 2012 Random House announced a possible 300%
increase in its wholesale cost of ebooks to libraries (Owen, 2012). Of the six major
publishers, Random House is the only one to offer libraries unrestricted access to its
ebooks. Penguin has discontinued its partnership with OverDrive and will no longer
distribute ebooks to libraries. Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette do not
distribute ebooks to libraries. HarperCollins places a 26-limit use on their library ebooks
before the library must purchase a copy of the ebook. ALA President Molly Raphael
(2012) emphasizes the importance of library access to digital content: “Libraries must
have the ability to purchase a wide range of digital content at a fair price so that all
readers have full access to our world’s creative and cultural resources, especially those
who depend on libraries as their only source of reading material.”
Conclusion
A constructivist reading environment of ebooks based on robust media richness
would encourage reading as a process of construction; reading through social
negotiations of meaning; reading immersed in authentic contexts; and reflective reading
as an ultimate goal. The falling prices of ereaders, more content availability, better retail
distribution, and increased media coverage have influenced the exponential increase in
ebook sales. The standards of EPUB format established in 2007 allow publishers toEBOOK – FREE ACCESS AND READING 12
produce a single digital file for distribution. Users of ereaders, smartphones, netbooks,
tablets, and laptops will demand accessibility of ebooks by any device. The ideal ereader
or electronic device has not yet debuted for consumer use although the new iPad shows
promise because of affordability, iBooks app and iBookstore, retina display with four
times the pixels of the iPad 2, A5X quad-core graphics, and downloading of EPUB and
PDF format. Librarians, however, need to consider a variety of strategies for delivering
ebooks in digital format not restricted by DRM or by hardware. In addition, the library
community should encourage the International Digital Publishing Forum to
extend the EPUB format to include annotating, note-taking, and bookmarking features.
The Pew Internet & American Life Project (2012) survey that identifies the ebook on a
hand-held device as the choice of readers [53%] for reading in bed oddly resonates in the
open book of the Billy Collins poem, Reading Myself to Sleep (1999):
Is there a better method of departure by night
than this quiet bon voyage with an open book
the sole companion who has come to see you off,
to wave you into the dark waters beyond language?
With the flamethrower and the Mechanical Hound vanquished, ebook reading promises a
future of the experimental and weird with a book ecosystem of communities built around
the combination of conventional print books, print-on-demand books, and evolving ebook
content and technology.EBOOK – FREE ACCESS AND READING 13
Part 2: Sample Survey of Ebook Reading Habits
A Google form collected responses from 20 members of the class of 2012 at St. John’s
Preparatory School, Danvers, MA. View the form at
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHFOaDdvaVlFRFRyeWxlSH
o1MnJqeHc6MQ
Breakdown of students surveyed by question number:
1. Eighty percent have smartphones that can connect to the Internet [some students
later commented that they have a smartphone but do not have a data plan to
connect to the Internet].
2. I was especially interested in ownership of dedicated ereaders or tablet. Twenty
percent of students own a dedicated ereader or tablet [ten percent have iPads]
3. Twenty-five percent of the students surveyed read an ebook during the past
twelve months of their high school career.
4. Of the students who had read an ebook, 70 percent downloaded the book from a
digital library with public domain works.
5. Just ten percent plan to read an ebook during the summer of 2012.
6. Sixty percent plan to read a print book during the summer of 2012.
7. Although students expressed comfort with using technology for Internet, music,
and video, the majority expressed discomfort with reading ebooks for academic
purpose because of the lack or the awkwardness of productivity tools: annotation
features, highlighting, note-taking, copying text, and printing from the ebook.EBOOK – FREE ACCESS AND READING 14
Appendix: Recommended Resources for Ebooks, Publishing, and Open Access
From Hellman (2011)
• Digital Public Library of America Planning Wiki http://dp.la/wiki/Main_Page
• arXiv – Cornell University Library – Open access to 761,920 e-prints in Physics,
Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and
Statistics http://arxiv.org/
• BioMed Central -- BioMed Central publishes 237 peer-reviewed open access
journals. http://www.biomedcentral.com/
• Public Library of Science (PloS) -- Non-profit organization of scientists
committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature freely accessible
to scientists and to the public http://www.plos.org/
• Scientific Library Online (SciELO) --
http://www.scielo.org/php/index.php?lang=en
• JSTOR -- With more than a thousand academic journals and over 1 million
images, letters, and other primary sources, JSTOR is one of the world's most
trusted sources for academic content. www.jstor.org
• Creative Commons – There is no registration to use the Creative Commons
licenses. Licensing a work is as simple as selecting which of the six licenses best
meets your goals, and then marking your work in some way so that others know
that you have chosen to release the work under the terms of that license.
http://creativecommons.org
• Free Software Foundation http://www.fsf.org/
• Bloomsbury Academic Publishing in Print and Digital
www.bloomsburyacademic.com
Bloomsbury Academic now publishes around 1,100 titles
each year, with a particularly big presence in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our backlist
comprises some 20,000 titles. An increasingly important part of our programme comes from
digital services.
Our output includes journals, digital services, textbooks, supplementary course books, research
monographs, reference works and professional books. Academic proposals are peer-reviewed
before we commit to publication, to help ensure quality and to support the career progression of
our authors.
• Europeana is a single access point to millions of books, paintings, films, museum
objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe. It is an
authoritative source of information coming from European cultural and scientific
institutions. http://www.europeana.eu/portal/EBOOK – FREE ACCESS AND READING 15
• Distributed Proofreaders -- provides a web-based method to ease the conversion
of Public Domain books into e-books. By dividing the workload into individual
pages, many volunteers can work on a book at the same time, which significantly
speeds up the creation process.
http://www.pgdp.net/c/
• Gluejar
-‐-‐
Gluejar works with rights holders to determine a good price for ungluing their book:
one that will compensate them for past work and replace future royalties. Readers worldwide can
chip in to fund their favorite books on our upcoming web site unglue.it. When we meet the rights
holders' goals, they will be paid in exchange for making their works available under a Creative
Commons license. Everyone will then be able read and share the book freely: with no cost, and no
DRM.
http://www.gluejar.com/
• Kickstarter -- is the world's largest funding platform for creative projects.
www.kickstarter.com
• The Open Utopia -- The Open Utopia is a complete edition of Thomas More's
Utopia that honors the primary precept of Utopia itself: that all property is
common property
http://theopenutopia.com
• Open Library – one web page for every book published
To build Open Library, we need hundreds of millions of book records, a wiki
interface, and lots of people who are willing to contribute their time and effort to
building the site.
http://openlibrary.org
• HathiTrust – Digital Library is a digital preservation repository and highly
functional access platform. It provides long-term preservation and access services
for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, including
Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution
initiatives. http://www.hathitrust.org/
• The Online Books Page -- Listing over 1 million free books on the Web at U
Penn http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
• LOCKSS -- based at Stanford University Libraries, provides libraries and
publishers with award-winning, low-cost, open source digital preservation tools to
preserve and provide access to persistent and authoritative digital content.
www.lockss.org
EBOOK – FREE ACCESS AND READING 16
From Divikar (2012)
• Smashwords -- is an ebook publishing and distribution platform for ebook authors, publishers,
agents and readers. We offer multi-format, DRM-free ebooks, ready for immediate sampling and
purchase, and readable on any e-reading device.
For readers, Smashwords provides an opportunity to discover new voices in all categories and
genres of the written word. Once you register, the site offers useful tools for search, discovery and
personal library-building. Each week we add new features based on feedback from members.
At Smashwords, our authors and publishers have complete control over the sampling, pricing and
marketing of their written works.
Smashwords is ideal for publishing novels, short fiction, poetry, personal memoirs, monographs,
non-fiction, research reports, essays, or other written forms that haven’t even been invented yet.
It's free to publish and distribute with Smashwords.
http://www.smashwords.com/
• Lulu -- Lulu is ready to help you publish your book with essential pre-publishing services,
including: Editing, Cover Design, Interior Formatting, Publicity, and more!
We have all-inclusive packages that provide the publishing help of a professional Lulu
coordinator, or you can use our services a la carte for a more customized do-it-yourself
experience. Each product page describes different levels of service, but if you need help deciding
which service or package is best for you, please request a free consultation.
http://www.lulu.com/publish/index.php?cid=en_tab_publish
• Amazon Kindle’s Direct Publishing
--
With Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) you can
self-publish your books on the Amazon Kindle Store. It's free, fast, and easy. Books self-published
through KDP can participate in the 70% royalty program and are available for purchase on Kindle
devices and Kindle apps for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, PC, Mac, BlackBerry, and Android-based
devices. With KDP, you can self-publish books in many languages - including English, German,
French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian - and specify pricing in US Dollars, Pounds Sterling, and
Euros. You will also find useful information on our active community forum.
Start publishing today with Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing!
https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/signin
• Barnes and Noble’s Pubit -- PubIt! by Barnes & Noble is an online, self-service Web
portal where independent publishers and authors can upload their eBooks and make them available
for sale through the Barnes & Noble eBookstore. This easy-to-use distribution platform offers
qualified users the expanded distribution, visibility, and protection that only Barnes & Noble can
offer. eBooks, essays, articles, poems, and short stories sold through the Barnes & Noble
eBookstore are available for sale on BN.com, NOOK eBook Readers, and our free NOOK
eReading software for iPad, iPhone/iPod touch, Mac, Android, PC, etc.
http://pubit.barnesandnoble.com/pubit_app/bn?t=support
• Global Library Consortium at Radcliffe – planning stages
http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news/in-news/academic-e-books-innovation-
and-transitionEBOOK – FREE ACCESS AND READING 17
• EIFL -- Working in collaboration with libraries in more than 60 developing and transition
countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, EIFL enables access to knowledge for
education, learning, research and sustainable community development.
EIFL is an international not-for-profit organisation based in Europe with a global network of
partners. We run a wide range of programmes and events designed to increase access to
knowledge. http://www.eifl.net/
From Glazer (2009)
• A Million Penguins – wikinovel
http://thepenguinblog.typepad.com/the_penguin_blog/2007/03/a_million_pengu.h
tml
• We Tell Stories –from Penguin – six stories, six authors, six weeks – digital
fiction http://wetellstories.co.uk/ http://www.sixtostart.com/we-tell-stories/
• The Golden Notebook Project -- It’s an experiment in close-reading in which
seven women are reading the book and conducting a conversation in the margins.
The project went live on Monday 10 November 2008.
http://thegoldennotebook.org/
• Lightning Source -- Books printed one at a time on demand service to publishers
http://www1.lightningsource.com/default.aspx
• Pediapress -- Combine the advantages of up-to-date and in-depth knowledge with
the convenience of printed books. Books are typeset and printed on demand based
on your personal selection. Starting from US$ 8.90 you get your unique book and
support the Wikimedia Foundation.
http://pediapress.com/
• Narrative --
A nonprofit organization dedicated to storytelling in the digital age
http://www.narrativemagazine.com/
• Podiobooks – Free serialized audiobooks http://www.podiobooks.com/index.php
• Sourcebooks -- The company publishes books, ebooks, and digital products in
most consumer categories http://www.sourcebooks.com/
• Scribd -- is a social publishing site, where tens of millions of people share
original writings and documents. Scribd's vision is to liberate the written word.
http://www.scribd.com/
From The Horizon Report (2012)
• Pedlar Lady of Gushing Cross -- interactive, immersive retelling of a classic
tale www.moving-tales.com
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