New Polish ebook site starts up
By Paul Biba
I received the following email from Peter Frey, one of the partners in the new site mentioned below. Peter says:
Hi Paul,
I am reading regularly teleread.org and find it very helpful in keeping me updated with the ebook market. Thanks. Perhaps this information will be interesting to your readers.
www.bezkartek.pl (bez kartek means without book pages) is a retailer site that we launched in March this year. Our system is integated with mobipocket.com, thus enabling us to offer a lot of foreign titles on the Polish market. We have also signed agreements with several local publishers e.g. Harlequin in Poland, LektoKlett (Klett AG).
The titles we sell are in PRC format mainly. However, we recenty launched the PDF format with social DRM and just a couple of days ago ePub (no DRM) for titles to be read on the Iphone. We are also offering the Bookeen Cybook Reader.
The idea for bezkartek.pl came up at the begining of 2008, when Tomasz Skalczyński, one of the Apetonic.com partners, bought a Bookeen Cybook Reader and was impressed by the reading experience. A prototype with public domain books and mobipocket titles was launched in the third quarter of 2008.
There are a couple of ebook retailers in Poland but we are the only one offering this amount of foreign titles in PRC in Poland
More information about us:
http://www.apetonic.com/2007/01/team.html
BR,
Peter
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September 17th, 2009 at 2:28 am
The good news is that Bezkartek.pl is a first Polish e-book site, where you can find Polish language books in ePub format.
Keeping fingers crossed for more.