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Friday, July 22, 2005

ebook

Internet retail 'first'

~ bookshop breakthrough ~

While uppity fans sulk over JK Rowling's "Luddite" coyness over e-booking her oeuvre, bookish online webserv provider, ehaus, has come up with something for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that's being talked of as an Internet retailing first.

OECD’s publications being a bit special – bi-lingual and often linked to news-breaking current affairs events - they specified a ground-breaking site with a “virtual bookshelf” for every client, ensuring instant and permanent e-book access to all purchased publications.

Quoth ehaus Director James Henson, “In this way, clients worldwide can get instant access to the full text as soon as they’ve purchased the book.”

The e-commerce engine developed by ehaus for the OECD “enables complex trade and affiliate discounts, multiple currencies, integrated credit card processing, and the secure transmission of book orders, as well as secure delivery of e-books”.

Mutatis mutandis, the book lives on ...


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