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B&R Samizdat Express
The B&R Samizdat Express is a small book publishing company started in 1974 by Barbara and Richard Seltzer. It originally published its content, a variety of books on various subjects,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.samizdat.com/ )〕 in electrical form.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Acad_Research/B_12932.html )〕
They started in September 1974, publishing Richard's "The Lizard of Oz." In July 1993 they expanded to sell public-domain electronic texts on PC diskettes, primarily for the blind. In 2001 they branched out to book collections on CD-ROM. And in 2004 they added book collections on DVD. Their offerings are available through their online store. They send out the Ebook of the Week and the Kids' Book of the Week as email attachments to free subscribers.〔〔
Since January 1994, they have also published a free electronic newsletter, Internet-on-a-Disk, which discusses Internet trends and points to Internet resources for business, education, and the blind. Their homepage gets about half a million page views, from about a quarter million visitors because of text content indexing on search engines.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/samizdat.com )〕
Their main business is now publishing ebooks for ereaders (Nook, Sony, iPad, Kobo, etc.), with over 12,700 titles available. At one point they had over 4000 books in Amazon's Kindle Store, but no longer do business with them, due to Amazon's restrictive practices and limited technology. In 2012, they opened their own ebook download store, Quench Editions, as in "quench your thirst for books". ("Quench" is the opposite of "kindle. Through the store, they provide ebooks and single-file collections of ebooks in three formats (.prc for Kindle, as well as .epub and .pdf, all in a single zipped file). They also offer organized collections of 50-100 books by a single download. Called Virtual Library Packages (patent pending), these collections use specially edited .txt files that are useful to the blind, can be edited, highlighted, and printed, and also work well on the Kindle and on most other e-readers (not Nook).
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