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eBook publishersPublishing houses and imprints dedicated toebooks.40k is an Italian ebook publishing venture, specializingin short digital-only books, both fictionand essays. 40K is a sister company to Italianebookseller BookRepublic and offers titles in a varietyof language, including English, Italian, Spanish, French andPortuguese.B de Books, has been launched in November 2011 as a spinoffof Barcelona-based Ediciones B - a privately held,medium-size trade publisher of best-selling popular fictionand non-fiction. B de Books is Spain’s first digital-onlypublisher to experiment with new approaches for thebook business in several regards, including competitivelylow pricing of its titles as well as publication without DRM.Bastei Lübbe is a German publishing company, founded in1949 and mostly known for its pulp literature in the subgenresof romance, crime, and the Wild West. Publishingis still the major source of income but Bastei Entertainment,the company’s e-publishing enterprise, is catchingup fast. Established in 2010 it covers everything fromebooks, apps and digitally enhanced products. New releasesare published simultaneously in print and ebook; 2,600titles of the 3,600-strong backlist have been digitized.Ebooks accounted for 10% of turnover in 2013.Bloomsbury India, launched in September 2012, upholdsBloomsbury’s tradition of publishing books of the highestquality in fiction, non-fiction, children’s, academic, businessand education by both Indian and internationalauthors. Bloomsbury is committed to providing its customerswith content in a variety of digital formats, includingebooks, ebook collections, online libraries and apps.La Bourdonnaye was founded in 2011 and is a French publisher,specialized in ebooks.Bravenewbooks is a selfpublishing platform launched in2013 by a consortium of several of the bggest players inDutch publishing, namely Singel Uitgevers, a division of theWPG publishing group, the leading online retailerBol.com, and the selfpublishing portal Mijnbestseller.CompletelyNovel, based in the United Kingdom, wasfounded in 2008 by Oliver Brooks and Anna Lewis. It is anonline community specializing in print-on-demand selfpublishingand advice for authors with the vision of providingthem with a platform that allows works to be publishedin print, at the most competitive print-on-demandprices around.DC Books, established in 1974, is considered as one of thetop five prestigious literary publishing houses in India. DCBooks has also ventured into ebooks through a Group promotedCompany EC Media, the first in India with completeeco-system in digital books.Diamond Comics, founded in 1982, is the largest comicbook distributor and publisher in India. They are digitizingthe popular Diamond Comics Characters and makingthem affordable and accessible on every platform.Dotbooks is a German digital-only publisher, founded in2012 by Beate Kuckertz, who previously had a 20-year careerin traditional publishing, notably at Droemer. Dotbookpublishes popular literature of all genres and successfullymanages the challenges of digital first, social reading, pricing,and DRM.The Global eBook Report 128