August 2009: Discovery E-Book Filing Raises Eyebrows
Is Discovery Communications gearing up for a jump into the suddenly hot e-book space? A filing made public this week by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office raises that possibility.
According to the filing, the Silver Spring-based media company applied in February for a patent on a product it describes as an “electronic book having electronic commerce features.”
And now in December 2009 it has a name …