E-book clearing house eBookAd provides a comprehensive resource for all types of information about electronic books. The site, aimed at authors, readers and publishers, includes information which ranges from reviews of ebooks to comparisons of ebook reader technologies. The eBook Directory Update Newsletter , published monthly, includes information and reviews on the latest free eBooks and eBook related resources online. To subscribe to the newsletter send a blank message to the email address below. Potential purchasers can preview excerpts of the publication along with an author's biography.
Authors can check on sales directly from the web site.
Distribution agreements are also offered to authors who already have an ebook designed. Copyright is protected using a system called BookLock which locks books to the unique id of the computer system that first opens the ebook. There is also a free monthly news service and discussion forum operated from the site. The Open eBook Authoring Group have completed a draft recommendation for the Open eBook 1.0 Specification, which defines the format that content takes when it is converted from print to electronic form. The Group, consisting of publishers, software and hardware vendors, have based their recommendations on the HTML and XML specifications.