Nov 30

Random House set to digitize 8000 booksRandom House, the large book publisher, has announced that they will be digitizing an additional 8000 books, in an effort to take advantage of explosive e-book growth.

CEO Markus Dohle added, “more people everyday are enjoying reading in the electronic format and Random House wants to extend our reach to them with more of our books.”

The publisher currently has a library of about 7000 and says the new round of digital books will be completed before February. A few of the books included will be novels by John Updike and Harlan Coben, and many volumes of the “Magic Treehouse” children’s series.

RH vice president for digital operations, Matt Shatz, noted that e-book sales have increased over 100 percent in 2008, thanks to the Amazon Kindle, but declined to offer a specific number.

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