<A HREF="http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/micro_stories.pl?ACCT=3D153400&TICK=3DPALM">Palm Digital Media, Inc.</A> released the first Palm Reader eBook version of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 17th Edition. Published by Little Brown and Company and updated for the first time in more than 10 years, the latest edition contains more than 20,000 quotations, including 90 new additions, from great thinkers such as Aristotle to great humanitarians such as Mother Theresa.

First published in 1855 by American compiler and publisher John Bartlett, and updated every 10 to 15 years, the collection compiles passages, phrases, and proverbs that can be traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature. Edited by author Justin Kaplan, whose book Clemens and Mark Twain won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1967, the latest edition contains quotes from 2,500 authors, including newcomers Eric Ambler, Maya Angelou, Kingsley Armis, Martin Armis, Margaret Atwood, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Jacques Cousteau, Emma Goldman, Katherine Graham, Mother Theresa, Rudolph Giuliani, Alfred Hitchcock, Tony Kushner, L.M. Montgomery, J.K. Rowling, and Tammy Wynette.