The Dutch bookstore chain, Selexyz will start with the sales of e-books and the iLiad from November onward. The iLiad will be on display and for sale at the Selexyz bookstores in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht. As a promotion the first iLiads will be provided with an e-book edition of Max Westermans new book ‘In alle staten‘.

On Selexyz.nl are currently more than 100 free e-books available for download, in near future this will be extended with the commercial titles also available at the stores.

**Update**

The Dutch NOS Journal made a short report last night on the iLiad. You can view it here (skip to 06:38).

Yesterday was the first day on the Frankfurt Book Fair and there was quite some interest in digital reading by the media this year. We even made it into the ZDF 19.00 Heute. You can watch the fragment here.

The Frankfurt Book Fair will take place from 10 to 14 October this year and it is considered to be the meeting place for everybody who is anybody in the industry and will be host to authors, publishers, booksellers, librarians, art dealers, illustrators, agents, journalists and of course readers.

iRex Technologies will be attending the fair and you can find us at the digital market place in Hall 4.2 Stand J 442. I will also be present at the fair and if you are interested to have a chat with us or have a look at the iLiad and hear about latest developments than we are more than happy to welcome you there.

For those not coming to the fair, I will cover the highlights of the fair here on the i-to-i blog. One of the things I am certainly gonna check out is a presentation from Amazon: The Future of Books: digital text at Amazon. During which Genevieve Kunst, the Head of Business development for Digital Media will introduce Amazon’s current digital offerings and latest developments.

With the recent events that seem to indicate that the launch of the Kindle is imminent, will this be the event where they will unveil the Kindle?

On tuesday, September 25th 2007 we will move our webservers to a new co-located facility. We will start the move on 21:00 CEST and expect to finish the move no later than 01:00 CEST the next day.

During this service window our websites may temporarily be unavailable.

Thank you for your understanding.

Over a year we  have been listening carefully to our customers and the community and in this period we have learned many things which have allowed us to improve our products and services.

Today we continue these efforts by joining the conversation. This blog is intended to be a timely and accessible alternative to more formal channels of communication. We intend it to be a place where we can share our comments, ideas and insights in an informal way and have a productive and candid dialog. We will continue to listen, as well as engage in a two-way communication.

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