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Available in advance on Fest21.com, a Ciné e-book reader device, which includes 26 books surrounding the cinema, will be available on May 14, 2008 for the opening of the Cannes Festival

Following the very successful launch at the end of 2007 of its Cluster21 e-book pack intended for professionals, then of its Psycho21 pack last March, M21 Editions, the precursor of web communities in France, called upon the know-how of New World Editions to create the Ciné Fest21 e-book pack consisting of a Bookeen e-book reader device containing 26 books on the cinema.

These 26 selected books in the editor's catalogue offer the most attractive panorama of the cinema of yesterday (with the biographies of Marlène Dietrich, Louis de Funès, Jean Gabin, Orson Welles...) and of today (Emmanuelle Béart, George Clooney, Jeanne Moreau, Robert De Niro, Michel Picolli, Steven Spielberg...), cinema dictionaries, the largest lessons of cinema...as well as the book on the international scene at the Cannes Festival prefaced by Gilles Jacob, president of the Festival.

With this initiative, New World Editions opens itself to new technology and to interactivity: direct access to the Fest21.com community will make it possible for readers to converse with the authors and to extend and share thoughts and reflections.

Fest21.com, associated with Filmfestivals.com and with M21 Editions, is the principle world-wide community surrounding cinema festivals, their films, news, and people...

The first cinema library that is held in the pocket

This marketed offer at 369 € HT (441 € TTC) includes the reader e-book device, 26 titles in the e-book format and access to the Fest21.com community, which brings together the readers, the professionals, and the passionate wishing to exchange ideas around the cinema, festivals, and its innovations. The reader e-book device presented by M21 editions is produced by Bookeen. It offers a quality of reading equal to that of paper. Its weight (174 grams), its size (12 X 19 X 0.85) and its simple ergonomics make it very convivial. Lastly, its autonomy ensures the reading of 8,000 pages, and allows simultaneous accommodations equivalent to 50 in-house books and hundreds more with an add-on card.

As of May 14th, 2008, the Fest21 e-book pack will be available on the e-commerce site of M21 Editions: biblio21.com to constitute its e-book library. It will be possible to directly download the 26 books of the pack on a personal computer, a PDA or a cell phone to the MobipocketTM format. It is also possible to supplement the library with online bookshops like that of mobipocket.com, those of M21 Editions, as well as with documents in formats PDF, HTML...