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Microsoft's publishing arm, Microsoft Press, is joining forces with O'Reilly Media in a broad digital partnership that includes "ebook initiatives." O'Reilly, a publisher and organizer of tech conferences, will give Microsoft Press access to its social media tools, webcasts and web portals. The deal gives Microsoft Press -- the software giant's in-house publisher of books and training manuals on Microsoft technologies -- another distribution outlet for its titles. It might also signal new Microsoft interest in electronic books -- a market where Amazon, Google and others have taken an early lead.
"The publishing industry is rapidly evolving, embracing the new and interesting ways that people are consuming information, and using personal technology," said Walid Abu-Hadba, Microsoft corporate VP of developer and platform evangelism, in a statement. "By working together with O'Reilly Media, Microsoft authors will have greater opportunity for exposure, and readers will have more access to author content."
Microsoft Reader -- Microsoft's software for reading electronic books -- just released a small update for Windows Mobile after laying dormant for a number of years. Perhaps the Redmond company -- seeing Amazon's moves with the Kindle electronic reader and Google's giant book scanning project -- is seeing some new potential in the digital book market.
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