OREANDA-NEWS. October 6, 2011. ABBYY ® , a leading provider of document recognition, document capture, and linguistic technologies and services , Oxford University Press, the world’s largest university press, and PocketBook International, the producer of the world's first electronic readers with pre-installed language translation dictionaries , today announced a distribution partnership to provide PocketBook users with trustworthy dictionary content. Most accurate and up-to-date dictionaries from the leading global dictionary publisher are now available for purchase and use with ABBYY Lingvo software application, the cutting-edge word translation software with comprehensive language support. The high-level content, including Oxford's flagship dictionary of American English, the foremost dictionary of modern English and four contemporary bilingual dictionaries for German, French, Spanish and Italian, is already available for download via http://bookland.net and http://store.obreey.com.

Authoritative bilingual dictionaries provide PocketBook users with modern vocabulary, cultural and local geographic entries, word usage examples and information on language structure . Detailed advice on grammar, spelling, and usage of contemporary English language is offered by the most reliable single-volume Oxford Dictionary of English, while a new standard in American lexicography and keyword-based entries with word usage examples are all uncovered in the state-of-the-art New Oxford American Dictionary.

 “We are continually working to provide language-conscious people with the most convenient ways of reading texts in various languages. Now they are able to take advantage of high-quality dictionaries from the prestigious dictionary publisher available on PocketBook multifunctional reading devices ”, commented Olga Tolstunova, deputy director of Mobile Products Department at ABBYY. “This is a great opportunity both to read and learn with pleasure wherever and whenever you like.”

“Our partnership with PocketBook and ABBYY expands the range of devices that support our premium content dictionaries, now including multifunctional e-readers, ” added David Bowers, Vice President of Global Business Development of Oxford University Press . “It is one of the company priorities to make learning easy and enjoyable. As a consistent next step in this direction, we have added new world-renowned vocabularies to the wide books collection offered at our content stores. Having a concise dictionary at hand is especially important in the modern mobile world. Taking it everywhere with you in your e-reader adds even more comfort to your personal development or communication, be it studying foreign languages, reading books in them or surfing the Internet”, said Alexey Avramenko, Head of Content Acquisition and Development Department for CIS countries at PocketBook International.