Baker & Taylor and De Marque to distribute French Canadian content via Blio no comments
Today Baker & Taylor and De Marque announced that they have partnered to distribute French Canadian ebooks worldwide via the Blio ereading application.
Baker & Taylor is the world’s largest distributer of physical and digital books and powers the Blio ebookstore. De Marque is a leading Canadian distributer of ebooks from Quebec and French Canada.
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Also regarding Blio: Quark will be releasing QuarkXPress9, the latest version of its digital publishing software, in April, 2011. The new version will provide direct support for the Blio format.
I fired up Blio for the first time today since it first came out. Blio was one of those products that is hotly hyped and then proves to be something of a disappointment when finally released. After installing the most recent update Blio does seem a bit better on my desktop than I remember it being when first launched. It is still not very usable on my netbook, however.
Blio was supposed to be releasing iOS and Android versions of its ereading app as well. I would like to try it on the Xoom if and when that happens.
