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To: StockHawk who wrote (31179)	9/7/2000 5:56:38 PM
From: Climber	Respond to of 54805

Meanwhile, in the Big Apple... "THOMSON multimedia (NYSE: TMS, news, msgs), the first major consumer electronics company to enter the emerging electronic book market, today announced that it will officially introduce the RCA-brand eBook line of dedicated electronic reading devices at the New York is Book Country book fair, on September 24, 2000 in New York City. Sold under the RCA brand name, the new eBook devices will be the first products introduced at retail with technology licensed from Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc. (Nasdaq: GMST, news, msgs). " quicken.excite.com

To: StockHawk who wrote (31179)	9/7/2000 7:05:02 PM
From: BDR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

<<on the other side, there's Microsoft (MSFT) and Gemstar, the chief architects behind a new, open e-book formatting specification called OEB, or open e book.>> I guess I need to understand OEB better. Do MSFT and GMST have an agreement on what that standard is? I thought they were competitors. Who controls OEB? I thought GMST had proprietary ebook software acquired as a result of buying Softbook, that Thomson was the only company so far to license it and that it was not compatible with what MSFT was promoting (which in turn is different from Adobe's, Glassbook's and I don't know how many other flavors of ebook software).