OverDrive Acquires Australian eBook Distribution Company Booki.sh

From an OverDrive Announcement:

Booki.sh is the developer of a cloud-based platform for distributing, selling and reading popular eBooks from anywhere and on any device with a modern web browser. Booki.sh founders and principals Joseph Pearson, Virginia Murdoch and Peter Haasz will join OverDrive from their existing offices in Melbourne to expand the global distributor’s publishing, library and school initiatives.
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Booki.sh eBooks live “in the cloud,” are browser-based and do not require the user to first install any software or app. This enables users with PC, Mac®, Linux, iPhone®, iPad, Android and many other mobile devices to instantly access protected titles for both online and offline use. To leverage the success of the Booki.sh browser-based platform, OverDrive will expand the Booki.sh distribution and digital bookstore platforms as well as integrate Booki.sh HTML5 and EPUB reading technologies into OverDrive library and school services.

Read the Complete Announcement
See Also: Booki.sh currently offers a free web-based ereader for ePub titles. Learn More/Register.
See Also: Booki.sh parent, Inventive Labs, is the developer Monocle, the DRM free ereader and Blueprint, a web-based CMS.

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