☰

Empresas y finanzas

Duke University Press Chooses the ebrary Platform to Sell and Distribute New eBook Collection


    ebrary(R), a leading provider of eContent services and technology,
    today announced that Duke University Press has licensed its platform
    to host and deliver a new eBook product, the e-Duke Scholarly Books
    Collection. The new product is due to be fully released in January
    2009, with a pilot program taking place during the 2008 year for a
    limited number of library partners. Using the ebrary platform, Duke
    will distribute the new collection directly to the academic library
    community under a perpetual access model.

    "Duke University Press chose the ebrary platform for a number of
    reasons: It supports multiple business models including subscription
    and perpetual access, offers rich functionality such as InfoTools,
    personal bookshelves, and multiple search options, and is highly
    affordable and reliable," said Steve Cohn, Director of Duke University
    Press. "Additionally, we are able to easily submit our eBooks into the
    ebrary platform through the web-ready PDFs supplied to us by the
    University of Chicago Press's BiblioVault program. Since ebrary's
    technology is available as a hosted service, we do not have to invest
    in additional resources to build and maintain the system."

    "Duke University Press is at the forefront of university presses
    in making its scholarship available electronically, and we are very
    excited that it chose our platform to host and deliver its new eBook
    product," said Monica Nogueira, ebrary's Global Director of Business
    Development. "ebrary has long been aggregating content from leading
    publishers and distributing it to libraries under multiple models. We
    are extremely pleased that innovative publishers like Duke are now
    licensing the same ebrary platform to sell and market their own
    content directly to libraries and other markets."

    Key features and benefits of the ebrary platform include the
    following:

    -- Ability to distribute digital content under multiple business
    models (subscription, perpetual access, pay-per-use)

    -- "Browse-before-buy" capabilities

    -- Full text searching and indexing -- No need for complex XML or
    meta tagging PDF files

    -- Easy PDF submission

    -- ebrary InfoTools(TM) provide contextual linking across
    multiple online resources

    -- The ebrary Reader(TM) delivers eBooks page-by-page online,
    eliminating cumbersome document downloads

    -- Personal bookshelves

    -- Highlighting and annotating

    -- Copying and printing with an automatic citation and URL
    hyperlink back to the source

    In a separate press release issued today, Gibson Library
    Connections, a leading supplier of eBooks to the Canadian library
    market, announced that it has significantly grown its business since
    licensing the ebrary platform. The press release is available at
    http://www.ebrary.com/corp/newspdf/ebrary_Gibson_platform.pdf.

    For more information about the ebrary platform, please email
    platform@ebrary.com.

    About Duke University Press

    Duke University Press is the publishing arm of Duke University.
    The Press publishes cutting-edge books and journals, primarily in the
    humanities and interpretive social sciences, as well as books intended
    for a general audience. For more information, please visit
    www.dukeupress.edu.

    About ebrary (www.ebrary.com)

    ebrary(R) is a leading provider of eContent services and
    technology. The company helps libraries, publishers, and other
    organizations disseminate valuable information to end users, while
    improving their research and document interaction.

    The company has developed a flexible eContent platform, which
    customers may use in a number of different, integrated capacities:
    ebrary customers may purchase or subscribe to eBooks and other content
    under a variety of pricing and access models, and they may license the
    ebrary platform to distribute, sell, and market their own content
    online. All options are delivered using a customizable interface and
    include the ebrary Reader(TM) with InfoTools(TM) software, which
    enable integration with other resources to provide an economical and
    efficient way to utilize information.

    ebrary currently offers a growing selection of more than 120,000
    eBooks and other titles from more than 260 leading publishers and
    aggregators.

    For four consecutive years, ebrary has been named to the EContent
    100 list of "companies that matter most" in the digital content
    industry.

    Founded in 1999, ebrary is privately held and is headquartered in
    Palo Alto, CA.