Adobe Opens E-book Store

Adobe Systems made a surprise move Wednesday to revive the faltering e-book market, opening its own online store. The Adobe Digital Media Store offers books from major publishers such as HarperCollins Publishers, Simon & Schuster and Random House, plus links to electronic versions of publications such as Popular Science and The New York Times. All are published in Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF), the company’s widespread standard for the electronic presentation and exchange of documents.

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