Donnelley and Microsoft Team Up for "eBooks"

NEW YORK-Computer industry powerhouse Microsoft, looking for a way to jump start its stagnant electronic books initiative, has turned to a printing industry powerhouse for help.

At a news conference here, R.R. Donnelley & Sons officials said they would make Donnelley's books, magazines, catalogs, directories and financial information content available to build a "massive repository" of tens of thousands of titles readable with Microsoft's Reader software.