Frederic Lardinois at ReadWriteWeb is reporting that Google Books is releasing public domain books in EPUB format. EPUB is a format used by a variety of eBook readers and related software. The format is DRM-free, though it can be wrapped around it. According to Lardinois, the EPUB format does not work on the Kindle without conversion software. From the article:
It is important to note, however, that these EPUB files were run through an optical character recognition (OCR) system and weren’t edited afterwards.
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