August 15, 2007 6:55 AM PDT
HarperCollins offering excerpts for iPhone
Samples of the Browse Inside interface for the iPhone.
(Credit: HarperCollins/Apple)Publisher HarperCollins released digital excerpts from 14 books on Wednesday that can be read from an Apple iPhone.
The digital excerpts are accessible from a special HarperCollins mobile Web site that can be accessed from the iPhone's Safari Web browser.
HarperCollins refers to the program as an extension of its Browse Inside program for perusing digital books from a computer.
The publisher had previously conducted a pilot project to test out the technology via a Web site run by Libre Digital.
Among the titles included in the roll-out are Soul Catcher by Michael C. White, Winning by Jack Welch and Suzy Welch and Now and Forever by Ray Bradbury.
In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts and bolts. Whether it's cars, robots, personal gadgetry or industrial machines, Candace Lombardi examines the moving parts that keep our world rotating. A journalist who divides her time between the United States and the United Kingdom, Lombardi has written about technology for the sites of The New York Times, CNET, USA Today, MSN, ZDNet, Silicon.com, and GameSpot. E-mail her at candacelombardi@gmail.com. She is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not a current employee of CNET. 
http://www.baen.com/library/defaultTitles.htm
The iPhone works just fine reading them. Baen requires NO DRM and have multiple ways for people to read their books. (PDF, .doc, HTML, etc.)