Google has announced that it is now indexing pages that are stored as scanned images rather than text. For many older books, whose electronic format might simply be the scanned page images, this could be a boon.  It will allow material inside the book to be located from a Google search where, until now, the [...]

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A new venture, Vodafone Books on Mobile, has launched in the UK with global ambitions to bring books to mobile phone users. The initial offering centres around audio books but the company behind it sees text-based ebooks as an expanding part of their offering as mobile screens improve.
The service is a partnership between Vodafone and [...]

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Anyone who has tried to create an ebook from a source that uses sidebars, tables and other layout devices will know that the current ebook formats such as .epub, mobipocket, etc can become very challenging and even look plain ugly. They’re fine for long slabs of text with occasional pictures and headings, but give them [...]

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