Simplicissimus Company Profile, english version

1. the future of books the books of the future

2. Why Simplicissimus? Because we love books. Because we want to build a future for books, and we are curious about the books of the future. Because e-Ink technology is finally enabling us to read long documents on computer displays – comfortably. Because the future of books - and the books of the future - needs a brand new approach from publishers, writers and readers. Because a huge, new and exciting market is taking shape.

3. e-Ink Technology

4. E-book - U.S. Market The Reading and Books Buying Habits of Americans Survey commissioned in May 2008 by Random House to Zogby International. The survey took in account a panel of 8.218 adults, representative of the U.S. population . Do you own an ebook reader? Yes: 3% I plan to buy one: 4% Have you ever puchased ebooks? Yes: 15% Do you feel comfortable reading digital books? Yes: 11%

5. E-book - U.S. Market

6. E-book, the future Reading, and not only reading... 1. Annotating text with your own remarks 2. Taking notes and converting them in digital documents 3. Bringing your library with yourself 4. All your school books in just 200 grams 5. Your favourite newspapers always with you 6. Less paper in your life

11. Retail /3 Europe doesn't have a large-scale successful ebooks store yet. As for the contents, only a small number of ebooks is available for non-english-reader customers. Simplicissimus is willing to take this opportunity, by creating the main Ebook Store in European market. By this way, we also want to incite publishers to take at their turn the opportunity of increasing sales by publishing ebooks.

18. Contacts Headquarters: Loreto, AN, Italy [ map ]. Admin offices: Milan [ map ]. Website: http://www.simplicissimus.it Email: info@simplicissimus.it Antonio Tombolini (CEO) [email_address]