The Library Journal are reporting: In what may be a harbinger of future consolidated buying deals, Florida academic libraries are embarking on a mission to build a collaboratively developed core collection of print and ebooks to serve libraries across the state. Providing the opt-in platform for the effort is Ingram Content Company book supplier Coutts, [...]
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Florida signs statewide contract for academic libraries
July 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Quayside signs on with Blio
July 6th, 2010 · No Comments · blio
From the press release: Baker & Taylor, Inc. is proud to announce it has entered into an agreement with Quayside Publishing Group to provide rich, highly-formatted content on Blio. Quayside is a specialty publisher whose imprints publish more than 300 new titles a year on wide-ranging topics – from transportation and sports to cooking and [...]
Baker & Taylor signs deal with Simon & Schuster, De Gruyter
May 26th, 2010 · No Comments · publishing news
From the press release: Baker & Taylor Inc., the world’s largest distributor of physical and digital books and entertainment products, today at Book Expo America announced it has signed agreements to provide print-on-demand services – via its TextStream Digital Print Service unit – to Simon & Schuster and German academic publisher De Gruyter. …The agreements [...]
Macmillan signs deal with NetRead
May 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment · publishing news
From the press release: NetRead Software and Services, LLC announced a metadata partnership today with Macmillan USA. Under terms of the agreement, NetRead will handle their title data conversion and distribution through its product, JacketCaster. JacketCaster is architected around the book industry XML-standard called ONIX, and this foundation will allow for quick and efficient delivery [...]
Wenhui-xinmin United Press Group signs deal with Hanvon
May 24th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
Wenhui-xinmin United Press Group is a Chinese newspaper conglomerate that publishes foreign language newspapers in 10 countries ( including English language editions in China). They’ve signed a deal with E-reader manufacturer Hanvon so their periodicals will be carried in Hanvon’s ebookstore. From the Shanghai Daily: United Press Group, the parent of Shanghai Daily, has tied [...]
Cambridge University Press signs with Bookshare
May 20th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news, press release, publishing news
From the announcement: Cambridge University Press has entered into a license agreement with Bookshare, the California-based nonprofit organization that provides books in accessible formats for people with qualified print disabilities such as blindness or low vision, a physical disability or a severe learning disability that affects reading. Under the terms of the digital rights license [...]
Foxit signs deal with South Korean E-reader maker
April 30th, 2010 · 4 Comments · hardware news
From the press release: Foxit Corporation, a leader in PDF software solutions and NEXT PAPYRUS Inc., an eReader Manufacturer and leading ePaper solution company in South Korea today announced that they have entered into a new partnership. NEXT PAPYRUS will integrate Foxit’s core PDF and epub rendering technology on their eReader products. The two companies [...]
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Cengage Learning signs exclusive deal for OWL
April 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
From the press release: Cengage Learning, a leading global provider of innovative teaching, learning and research solutions, today announced an agreement with the University of Massachusetts, developer of Online Web-based Learning™ (OWL), the leading online chemistry homework solutions tool. Building on a long-established relationship with the University’s Amherst campus, Cengage Learning has now acquired the [...]
B&N signs distribution deal with Salon.com
April 21st, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
From the press release: Barnes & Noble, Inc, the world’s largest bookseller, today announced that its website, BN.COM, will expand its reach via a content partnership between its online books and arts magazine, the Barnes & Noble Review, and Salon.com, an award-winning news and entertainment website reaching more than 6 million unique users each month.As [...]
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Florida State-Jacksonville signs with CafeScribe
April 21st, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows
From the press release: A leading Florida college is using Follett Higher Education Group’s (FHEG) CafeScribe® eBook platform to offer custom digital textbooks to the world at an unusually affordable price of less than $50 per eBook.Traditional textbooks routinely cost $100 or more, adding significant cost to a student’s total educational expenses. To address the [...]
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