Nick Bogaty, who used to be at the IDPF and is now with Adobe, conducted a webinar recently to explain how ACS4 fits into the ebook ecology. Adobe is pushing their ACS4 (Adobe Content Server 4) to Publishers who sell direct (host their own content), distributors who provide protected content to retailers and libraries, solution providers, and retailers and libraries.
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More on the Google Book Search Widget
Tim’s post from earlier this week introduced you to the Google Book Search widget.
Google Does Widgets
Google has announced a new Google Book Search browsable widget (and some other tools) and in the same announcement they have announced partnerships with retailers that already are using the widget live on their sites—a diverse group of retailers like Books-A-Million, Blackwell Bookshop, The Book Depository in the UK, A1Books in India, Librería Norma in Colombia, Van Stockum in the Netherlands, and Livraria Cultura in Brazil. And Google has aspirations to add this functionality to even more booksellers in the coming weeks including Borders.com, Buy.com, and Powell’s Books.
