dotbooksEdiciones B, founded in Barcelona/Spain in 1986, is thepublishing arm of Grupo Zeta. It reaches a wide audienceof all ages thanks to the variety and markedly commercialcharacter of its catalog. The titles published by the imprintsEdiciones B, Vergara and Zeta Bolsillo demonstrate its widerange. In 2011 Ediciones B launched a new digital imprint,B de Books.EDILIVRE, founded in 2007 and based in Saint Denis,France, engages in online publishing and autopublications.EDILIVRE already publishes books from morethan 3,000 authors worldwide (France, Belgium, Switzerland,Canada, Morocco, Tunisia, Republic of Congo …) andoffers a catalog of more than 7.000 books in print or digital.Éditions L’Harmattan, founded in 1975, is a French bookpublisher, publishing 500 magazines and 2,000 new booksper year, most as both books and ebooks, and has a backlistof 38,000 books, 33,000 ebooks, and 1,700 videos, withabout a third each on Europe, Africa, and the rest of theworld.Editis is France’s second largest publishing group that hasbuilt the ebook distribution platforms ePlatforme.ELP éditeur is a French digital-only publisher. ELP éditeurpublishes 10 titles per year distributed by Immateriel.fr.Emma Books is an Italian digital publisher that releasesfiction and non-fiction books by bestselling and debutauthors. Besides, it re-proposes backlist titles, classicalwomen’s literature, in both Italian and English (original ortranslation).epubli is a German digital printing and ebook platform,located in Berlin that was established in 2008. epubli hasexperienced constant growth over the years and currentlyemploys 20 team members.E-Reads, founded in 1999 in the United States, is the oldestindependent ebook publisher in the field and an innovativeleader in the modern book industry. Its mission is tobring out-of-print books back in electronic and print formatsand create an independent ebook market forauthors. E-Reads is acquired by Open Road in April 2014.Frederatorbooks was founded 2013 by Fred Seibert asdigital-only publishing venture in the the United States.The publisher David Wilk wants to keep alive the magic ofbooks and especially to preserve the unique relationshipof reader to text as we move into the digital age.Frisch & Co is a Berlin-based German ebook company thatfocuses on publishing contemporary literature in Englishlanguagetranslation and was founded in 2012. Frisch &Co.’s titles are available on ebook retailers throughout theworld and in DRM-free format on its website.GEN - Grupo Editorial Nacional, founded in 2007, a marketleader in STP (scientific, technical and professional) publishingand content in Brazil, with 12.4% share in this segment.Editorial platform of some of the most notoriouspublishers in this area, GEN gathers a catalog of over 3,500active books, and over 700 of which are available in digitalversions and/or apps, in Health, Legal and Tender, Sciences,Humanities and Social.GRIN Publishing, located in Munich, Germany, has specializedsince its foundation in 1998 in the publication ofacademic ebooks and books. The publishing websiteGRIN.com offer students, graduates and university professorsthe ideal platform for the presentation of scientificpapers, such as research projects, theses, dissertations,and academic essays to a wide audience.129 The Global eBook Report
GRIN PublishingHispabooks was founded in 2012 and is based in Madrid/Spain. It is a publishing house focusing on contemporarySpanish fiction in English-language translation, both inebook and trade paperback format, targeting readersaround the world who want to explore the best of today’sSpanish literature.Lulu, launched in 2002 with its headquarter in the UnitedStates, is a leading ebook self-publishing website. Lulupioneered the self-publishing industry and paved the wayfor people around the world to publish books and bringthem to market, while allowing authors to retain full controlof their work. Operating a global network, Lulu providesworldwide distribution so that authors can reachreaders just about anywhere via print, e-readers and tabletdevices. As the leading independent self-publishing company,Lulu has enabled people in more than 225 countriesand territories to self-publish nearly two million publications,including 1.5 million books.Macmillan is a privately held international publishing companyowned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.It has offices in 41 countries worldwide and operates inmore than thirty others. In early 2013, Macmillan started apublic library elending pilot program with a select groupof backlist ebooks from its Minotaur Books mystery andcrime fiction imprint. Later in the year, the entire ebookbacklist catalog of more than 11,000 ebooks was madeavailable to all public libraries using the Axis 360 digitalmedia platform.Marabout, founded in 1949 and a French publishing leaderin gardening, practical advice, and self-help books, is committedgreatly to extending its reach into digital markets.Mehta Publishing, an Indian book publishing company,was established in 1976 and already entered into the galaxyof ebooks.Meinbestseller, founded in 2010, is a German selfpublishingplatform for authors, publishers, bookstores,newspapers etc. It offers authors the possibility to publishtheir printed books and ebooks free of charge and withoutcontract obligations.Mikrotext is a German digital publisher for short digitalreading, founded in 2013 in Berlin by Nikola Richter, witha focus on new literary texts that comment on contemporaryquestions.Mladinska knjiga, Slovenia’s largest and most successfulpublishing house, entered the ebook market with Kobo.Monsenstein und Vannerdat, is a German ebook publisher,founded in 1999. Monsenstein offers professional and customizedservices to authors based on the digital printingtechnology Book on Demands.Morgan & Claypool Publishers, founded in 2002 in the UnitedStates, is an innovative new digital publisher in engineering,computing, and the life sciences, focusing onbook-length treatments of fast-moving, emerging topics.Books are written by experts from around the world andpublished online.Narcissus is the multi-channel self-publishing platformthat currently leads the Italian ebook market. Today Narcissusserves thousands of authors and lets them sell theirebooks on all relevant online ebook stores, from Amazon’sKindle Store to Apple’s iBooks Store, Nokia Reading, KoboBooksand many others local (national) ebook stores,dedicated to digital self publishing.Neelwafurat, established in 1998, was the first platform forpurchasing Arabic books online. Its headquarter is locatedin Beirut, Lebanon and there is an additional branch inEgypt. After launching its e-commerce site in 2000, it nowoffers 450,000 Arabic books and 2,500 ebooks, and lastyear it introduced iKitab, an ebook reader application forthe iPhone, iPad, and Android. Neelwafurat also added asite for digital magazines, iMaghaleh, hosting about 100magazines from all over the Arab world.The Global eBook Report 130
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