BOOKS: ELECTRONIC : TELECOMMUNICATIONS: CELLULAR: Books, Cellphones to Connect

BOOKS: ELECTRONIC :
TELECOMMUNICATIONS: CELLULAR:
Books, Cellphones to Connect


Books, Cellphones to Connect
By Stevenson Swanson
Chicago Tribune
The Seattle Times
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/
businesstechnology/2004022143_btcellbook19.html>

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NEW YORK  Cellphones aren't just getting smart. They're turning into 
bookworms.

From their humble start as a simple phone that you could carry in your 
pocket, mobile phones have added a raft of features, such as the ability 
to take photos, shoot video, receive and send e-mail, and search the 
Internet.

Now, cellphones are adding another feature: the capability of displaying 
electronic versions of books.

With their small screens, cellphones might not spring to mind as a 
suitable medium for reading lengthy stretches of text. And a much 
ballyhooed e-book revolution during the dot-com era in the late 1990s and 
early 2000s fizzled, leading many in publishing to doubt whether books 
would ever escape the bounds of paper.

Deal making

But that hasn't stopped such publishers as Houghton Mifflin, Simon and 
Schuster and Avalon Travel from making deals with specialty firms to 
produce mobile versions of some of their titles.

In one of the most recent deals, Boston-based Houghton Mifflin, which 
traces its origins back to 1832, agreed to work with Mobifusion, a Silicon 
Valley firm, to make some of the publisher's reference and children's 
books available in mobile versions.


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