Fodor's Travel Guide goes paperless with the ECTACO jetBook

ECTACO. Inc., America’s largest producer of advanced handheld language solutions, has just announced that its newest product, the jetBook e-Book Reader, has just been updated with the industry’s top guidebook. A premium title now available pre-loaded on jetBook, the Fodor’s Travel Guide provides all the information necessary to make visiting the world’s most popular destinations a truly satisfying experience.

With indispensable resources for 50 destinations, the trusted Fodor’s Travel Guide puts everything the informed traveler needs to know to have the time of their life – and save money too!

Ectaco introduced the jetBook eBook reader at the Frankfurt Book Fair where many visitors had a chance to test it out and compare with other eBook readers. jetBook showed the greatest success with phenomenal feedback because it has true pocket format and a TFT technology screen without the blinking side effect offered by competitors.

With The International Digital Publishing Forum newly released EPUB specification format based on XML, this is the new standard for eBook production and leading eBook device manufacturers.

Ectaco announced that the jetBook eBook reader will support both – most popular in US MobiPocket format and open EPUB format in Q1,2009. Many professionals think that this event will make jetBook the greatest eBook reading platform in the US and Europe

ECTACO, Inc. President and CEO, David Lubinitsky, said recently that “jetBook is the ultimate pocket travel library. It not only entertains and informs wherever you go, but also makes it possible to learn a foreign language too. The recent inclusion of the Fodor’s Travel Guide now means that in addition to the thousands of free books available for e-Book readers, an extra exclusive premium title is on-hand to make every trip readers take more enjoyable and rewarding.”

The inclusion of the Fodor’s Travel Guide in one of the world’s most popular e-book readers makes the ECTACO jetBook the one device no traveler should ever be without. Able to store thousands of e-Books, audio files and pictures, it’s like having a completely personalized, portable library along for the trip. In addition to the huge amounts of reading material users can now carry with them, jetBook also offers advanced translation options with a choice of bidirectional dictionaries that let you read and learn without having to carry around additional resources

To learn more about jetBook and Fodor’s Travel Guide visit www.jetbook.net or www.ectaco.com and discover the key to an unlimited world of information and entertainment.