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Press Release
Palm Digital Media Joins PalmSource, Inc. Handhelds
SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Palm Digital Media,
the leading publisher and distributor of eBooks for handheld computers, has
joined PalmSource, Inc., the Palm OS(R) subsidiary of
Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq: PALM). PalmSource provides the most successful operating
system for handheld computers and smart phones and is the foundation for most
handheld devices sold worldwide. The move to PalmSource is a perfect fit for Palm Digital Media. Its
award-winning Palm Reader(TM) is the leading eBook reader application for Palm
Powered(TM) handhelds and Pocket PC devices. Palm Digital Media will continue
to offer Palm Reader and eBooks via www.palm.com/ebooks, and through
relationships with Palm OS(R) licensees. With more than 4,500 titles from most major U.S. publishing houses, Palm
Digital Media offers the largest selection of any retailer of eBooks for
handhelds, including retailers of Microsoft Reader eBooks. In February 2002,
it was named Best eBook Publisher by Handheld Computing Magazine. In
October 2001, Pocket PC Magazine awarded Palm Reader with a Best Product award
for best eBook reader. Palm Digital Media introduces 15 to 20 new eBooks every
day and averages 1,000 new customers a week.
Palm Digital Media Releases List of March's Top 10 Best-selling eBooks In related news, Palm Digital Media today released its list of March's top
10 best-selling eBooks. The eBooks can be purchased at www.palm.com/ebooks.
They are available for immediate download 24 hours a day. Most Palm Reader
eBooks take less than two minutes to download and require only a few hundred
kilobytes of available memory on the reader's handheld computer.
<![CDATA[ Palm Digital Media Top 10 Best-selling Fiction eBooks
March 2002
1. "Everything's Eventual" by Stephen King (Schribners)
2. "Spider-Man" by Peter David (Ballentine Books)
3. "Dragonquest" and "Dragonflight" by Anne McCaffrey (Ballentine Books)
4. "The Stone Monkey" by Jeffery Deaver (Simon & Schuster)
5. "Sasso" by James Sturz (Walker & Co.)
6. "Violets Are Blue" by James Patterson (Little, Brown & Co.)
7. "Last Man Standing" by David Baldacci (AOL Time Warner)
8. "Wit'ch Storm" and "Wit'ch Fire" by James Clemens (Ballentine Books)
9. "The Demon Spirit" and "The Demon Awakens" by R. A. Salvatore
(Ballentine Books)
10. "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells (Peanut Press)
Palm Digital Media Top 10 Best-selling Non-fiction eBooks
March 2002
1. The Holy Bible, New International Version from Zondervan
2. Webster's New World College Dictionary by Hungry Minds
3. Random House Roget's Thesaurus from Random House Reference
4. Webster's New World Compact School and Office Dictionary by Hungry
Minds
5. "The Procrastinator's Handbook" by Rita Emmett (Walker and Co.)
6. "Piloting Palm" by Andrea Butter and David Pogue (John Wiley & Sons)
7. "The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense" by Suzette Haden Elgin (Barnes
& Noble Digital)
8. "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey
(Franklin Covey)
9. "Secret Sex" by Iris and Steven Finz (St. Martin's Press)
10. "The Multi-Orgasmic Couple" by Douglas Abrams and Rachel Carlton
Abrams, and Mantak Chia and Maneewan Chia (HarperCollins PerfectBound)
About PalmSource, Inc.
]]> PalmSource, Inc., the Palm OS(R) subsidiary of Palm, Inc., provides the
most successful operating system for handheld computers and smart phones in
history. It is the foundation for most of the handheld devices sold worldwide.
Palm Powered(TM) devices include those made by Acer; HandEra; Handspring;
Kyocera; Palm, Inc.; Samsung; Sony; Symbol Technologies; and, in the future,
AlphaSmart and Garmin. Currently, there are more than 13,000 applications
available for Palm Powered devices, exclusive of in-house software programs
developed by enterprise organizations.
About Palm, Inc. Palm, Inc. is a pioneer in the field of mobile and wireless Internet
solutions and a leading provider of handheld computers, according to IDC
(December 2000). Based on the Palm OS(R) platform, Palm's handheld solutions
allow people to carry and access their most critical information wherever they
go. Palm(TM) handhelds address the needs of individuals, enterprises and
educational institutions by offering the foundation for thousands of
application solutions. Palm stock is traded on the Nasdaq national market
under the symbol PALM. More information is available at http://www.palm.com .
NOTE: Palm OS is a registered trademark and Palm, Palm Powered and Palm
Reader are trademarks of Palm, Inc. Other brands may be trademarks of their
respective owners.
SOURCE Palm, Inc.
Web site: http: //www.palm.com
CONTACT: Kathleen Dixon of Dixon Communications, +1-408-871-7765, or kathleen@kdixon.com, for Palm Digital Media
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