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 The Tablet PC Digital Publishing Conference was announced today by the Open eBook 
Forum (www.openebook.org/tabletpc), 
an event focusing on the impact the Tablet PC platform from Microsoft Corporation 
will have on ePublishing markets. Scheduled for Thursday, December 5, 2002 at the 
McGraw-Hill auditorium, the one-day conference will showcase the powerful new features 
of the Tablet PC platform and how book, magazine, newspaper and other publishers 
can provide digital versions of their publications for an excellent on-screen reading 
experience. Sponsors include Microsoft Corporation, OverDrive Inc., McGraw-Hill, 
New York University Center for Publishing and Palm Digital Media. 
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