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Originally Posted by igorsk
Hachette Livre sera prêt pour la sortie en fin d'année du lecteur numérique («e-book») de Sony.
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Does this quote imply that Hachette will prepare content for the Sony Reader by the end of the year, or that they will provide the Sony Reader itself? Teleread seems to imply (from the translation of the French source) that Hachette is going to introduce the Reader.
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Bookseller (May 09, 2008):
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Hachette Livre is to acquire French digital book distributor Numilog. The move is designed to prepare Hachette Livre for the launch in France of the Sony digital e-book at the end of this year.
Hachette said that it would enable it to distribute books published by its own imprints as well as by third-party publishers in a variety of digital formats.
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Numilog has not grown as fast as expected initially, because digital books have not yet made much inroad into the French market. That will not change massively for at least two generations, according to Hachette Livre CEO Arnaud Nourry. He predicted that digital books would represent between 1% and 5% of the general public market within five years. The Numilog books will be priced 10% to 20% lower than their paper versions.
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