Houston Public Library. Ebooks, or their offspring, promise to change the world of publishing and reading, but these are early days and much of ebook's promise is just that, a promise. Libraries have begun to embrace the ebook concept. Houston Public Library was one of the first, and now offers 1,500 titles and links to numerous ebooks in the public domain. Most of Gutenberg's titles are available in HTML or text format.
Available titles range from best sellers to magazines and newspapers.
Many use their Palm Pilots as their device of choice to read ebook content. A number of publishers make texts available in this format. Peanut Press has released the Peanut Reader to allow Palm Pilot users to read big books on the little screen. They offer 'plans' of pre-selected titles for academic, school, public, or corporate libraries. There are a number of data and format standards for ebooks, ereaders, and reader software.