By Paul Festa
Posted on ZDNet News: Jun 12, 2002 4:55:00 PM
Adobe Systems released Content Server 3.0, software that lets libraries
loan and distribute eBooks written in the company's Portable Document
Format. Content server lets administrators offer subscriptions, set
expiration dates that disable the eBook on the borrower's computer, and
provides packaging and encryption options for Internet delivery.
Content Server is available through eBook software providers Ebrary, Baker & Taylor, Follett and NetLibrary; through Adobe distributors including OverDrive; or from Adobe's eBooks Web site. The software costs $5,000 per site hosting as many as 250 eBooks, and $1,000 for every additional 500 titles. Adobe also offers upgrade pricing and special ASP pricing.
--Paul Festa, Special to ZDNet News
