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Oxbridge Ebooks

Cambridge University Press announced this morning (at the London Online convention) that it is launching its own ebook product, Cambridge eBook Collections, for distribution into libraries. According to the press release:

Cambridge Collections will feature subject-based collec-tions of ebooks, and collections will be sold on a perpetual access, unlimited multiple concurrent user basis. The initial release of Cambridge eBook Collections, available to Asia Pacific only, will include specialist collections of humanities, science and business ebooks.

Cambridge will be partnering with eb20, the development arm of ebooks.com.

Oxford University Press, not to be left behind, announced a deal with OCLC Netlibrary, to sell ebook titles previously only available via Oxford Scholarship Online. According to The Bookseller:

OSO provides content for teaching and research. Under the agreement, OUP's academic titles will be accessible to NetLibrary users worldwide from January 2008.

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