September 03, 2003
Palm Sells Digital Media Division to PalmGear HQ
Apparently, PalmSource has decided to sell its Palm Digital Media division to PalmGear.com.
The graphic in the upper left of the Palm Digital Media website used to say "A Division of PalmSource, Inc.," whereas it now says "A Division of PalmGear.com." That logo graphic is pictured to the right, for reference only.
Palm Digital Media started out as PeanutPress, an online e-book publisher and seller. PeanutPress was acquired by Palm, Inc. and changed to Palm Digital Media (PDM). PDM then became part of PalmSource when Palm, Inc. split itself into the software (PalmSource) and hardware (PalmOne) halves. PalmGear.com is an aggregator and value-added reseller of software, and now e-books, for Palm OS handhelds.
What this means for e-book readers who are happy and content with using content in the PalmReader format is hard to say at this point. We hope that PalmGear takes this ball and runs all the way to the endzone. Otherwise, e-books just took a major step backward.
Update: Here's the press release on PalmGear.com
Posted by Craig | PermalinkWow, your second paragraph had more uses (9) of "Palm" than I've ever seen in one paragraph. :-)
I too hope that PalmGear does right and leaves PDM alone to do what they're doing, while shining more light on e-books. Maybe some of what PDM does right will rub off on PalmGear.
Last thing we need now is for PalmGear to screw around with a good company and make e-books less attractive to PDA users.
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