Paris, France - July 25, 2008 - The press service: each year during the summer, booksellers discover in preview, and even before they are printed, the novels of the next literary season. The news service is a must for new novels, he can make these first titles from booksellers who will then advise the best players.
This year, for the first time, a hundred booksellers first read these novels to a book electronically. Indeed, Titel (provider for libraries) in partnership with Bookeen (manufacturer of shelf) offer digital music player loaded with the latest of many publishing houses: Actes Sud, Allia, Belfond, Buchet-Chastel, Chambon, Christian Bourgois, Denoël, Flammarion, Florent Massot, Folies ink, Gilead, Gallimard, Gallmeister, The Difference, allusions, L'Olivier, Mercure de France, Métailié Michalon, Black on White, Phoebus, Plon, POL, City Press, Robert Laffont, The Rock, The Plumed Serpent, Le Seuil, Round Table and Vertical. And more than forty new titles are available as of press service in digital on the Cybook.
With the size of a paperback book for a featherweight 175g, the Cybook Gen3 e-book given to booksellers offer a range of several days on a single battery charge. The electronic paper display provides a truly comfortable reading even in bright sunlight and the simplicity of the device is ideal for reading novels. Cybook came preloaded with the top 25 titles, 15 more titles were added later in the summer. "We are very pleased to participate in this operation, which demystifies the eBook through use. The fact that publishers and booksellers are at the heart of service, is the most significant element of the operation. The number of titles available in digital, rather than the device itself, whether the service actually works. "Explains Michael Dahan, co-founder of Bookeen.
ePagine The experiment proposed by a subsidiary of Titus Livius, has received a great reception from publishers and booksellers participants. "The deal we put together in partnership with Bookeen fits neatly into a framework that publishing professionals know. It allows booksellers and publishers to appropriate the digital player gently while relying on a service extremely helpful in the value chain of the book. "Explains Stéphane Michalon, director of ePagine at Titel.
The first readers were distributed by Titel early July. "The early reviews are very positive booksellers. The appropriation is fast. Publishers who have played the game consider the record books on shelf convincing and encouraging our development as a technically and commercially. This operation contributes to the awareness of the challenges ahead so that booksellers who wish to be involved in the marketing of digital books. "Said Stephane Michalon.
With this first operation, and Titel Bookeen opens up new perspectives in the field of digital books keeping in mind the preservation of the value chain of book and its various actors.
During the summer, a bookseller (Bernard Strainchamps) reflects the experience on a blog of the newspaper Liberation
http://livres.blogs.liberation.fr/ .
To learn more about Bookeen Cybook and visit
http://www.bookeen.com/ .
To learn more about Titel and ePagine visit
http://www.titelive.com/ .
Now you will be able to test reading comics eink screen. The French Foolstrip has indeed provided 5 eBooks demonstration specially resized to the format of the Cybook. The French publisher who works primarily on the Web also offers recover all of its publications on its website: http://www.foolstrip.com/ 
