DVD Empire to Sell Rocket eBOOK Online At www.ebookempire.com.MARS. Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 1999--DVD Empire, the pioneering online retailer of digital video discs See DVD. Digital Video Disc - Digital Versatile Disc (DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. ) and video compact discs (storage) Video Compact Disc - (VCD) A storage format used for film distribution. (DVD-ROM DVD-ROM: see digital versatile disc. A read-only DVD disc used to permanently store data files. DVD-ROM discs are widely used to distribute large software applications that exceed the capacity of a CD-ROM disc. ), jumps into the online bookselling fray with the Rocket eBook One of the first electronic books. Introduced in 1998 by NuvoMedia Inc., Palo Alto, CA, it weighed in at 22 ounces and held the equivalent of approximately 10 novels. Like a conventional book, the Rocket let you annotate in the margin, underline passages and set bookmarks. , NuvoMedia's paperback-sized electronic book designed for reading Web-distributed content. DVD Empire (www.dvdempire.com) will be only the second retailer to carry the Rocket eBook since its holiday 1998 introduction. The first was Delray Beach, Florida Delray Beach is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 60,020. As of 2004, the population estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau is 64,150. - based mail order retailer Levenger. DVD Empire will be NuvoMedia's first exclusively online retail partner. DVD Empire will sell the Rocket eBook for its suggested retail price of $499 beginning by March 1, 1999 at a new website (www.ebookempire.com), linked to the DVD Empire homepage. Per standard DVD Empire practice, the Rocket eBook will be in stock for immediate delivery from the 6,000 square foot DVD Empire warehouse outside Pittsburgh, PA. In addition, Rocket eBook customers will soon be able to buy any of the eBook titles now available online at DVD Empire's www.ebookempire.com site. The move opens a significant new area of business for online retailer DVD Empire. "The Rocket eBook has the potential to revolutionize the publishing industry, opening a new, low overhead method of distribution for an industry that has seen its margins squeezed in recent years," says DVD Empire president Jeff Rix. "Unlike some of our larger online retail competitors we hope to ensure profitability by focusing on products which are ideal for online sale. For eBook titles, online sale is not only technically the most convenient for the customer and the retailer, it is also the most inexpensive method. The entire warehouse fits into a net server." The $499 retail price of the Rocket eBook includes the 22 oz, palm-sized reading device, a cradle which plugs into the serial port of a PC, and a CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). which contains the RocketLibrarian software needed to download titles to PC by modem. The Rocket eBook can hold about 4,000 pages, the equivalent of 10 novels. It permits the reader to carry a small, hand-held library almost anywhere. Titles are loaded onto the Rocket eBook from the PC via the serial port. NuvoMedia, Inc. has championed an "open platform" standard for Web-based publishing, which will allow any publisher access to the customer through the Rocket eBook. To date over a dozen have signed up, including HarperCollins, Henry Holt and Company, McGraw-Hill, Random House, and Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster U.S. publishing company. It was founded in 1924 by Richard L. Simon (1899–1960) and M. Lincoln Schuster (1897–1970), whose initial project, the original crossword-puzzle book, was a best-seller. . DVD Empire is a leader in online sales of digital video discs, shipping more than 1,400 units daily. DVD Empire's 1998 holiday sales represent a tenfold increase over those of 1997. |
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