Neowood Éditions is a French digital publisher.New Vessel Press, founded in 2012, is an ebook publishinghouse in the United States, specializing in foreign literaturein translation.Novellix, a Swedish start-up founded in May 2011, andspecializing in the publication of short stories and otherbooks with a limited volume of around 32 pages each,which are released in print, audio, and ebook formats.Numeriklire is a French digital-only publisher specializingin adventure, erotica, literary fiction, crime, and youngadult books, also provides its entire catalog without DRM.Open Road Integrated Media, founded in 2009, is a USdigital publisher and multimedia content company. OpenRoad creates connections between authors and their audiencesby marketing its ebooks through a new proprietaryonline platform, which uses premium video contentand social media. Open Road Integrated Media has signedan agreement to acquire E-Reads, the digital publisherfounded by Richard Curtis in 1999. The purchase, which isset to close April 1, will add more than 1,200 ebooks toOpen Road’s listO’Reilly is a California based privately held publisher andpioneer in digital publications and ebooks, founded in1978 by Tim O’Reilly, entertaining international offices inGermany, Japan, China and Taiwan.Partridge Publishing is India’s first self-publishing imprintlaunched in early 2013 in partnership between PenguinBooks India and Author Solutions. Every Partridge India titleis released in digital format as an ebook, and print formatis offered as an option.Pratham Books, set up in 2004, is an Indian not-for-profitpublisher that seeks to publish high-quality books for childrenat an affordable cost in multiple Indian languages.Pratham makes its books available on open platform, aswell as on the entire range of reader applications.Publish Green, founded in 2010, is an US full-scale ebookpublishing house.Publish Green is committed to helpingtraditionally published authors, self-published authors,and book publishers of all sizes make their mark in theebook publishing world by providing a full range of ebookformatting, distribution, editing, and marketing services.Rocautores is a Spanish self-publishing platform, launchedin December 2012 by the Spanish publisher Roca Autores,on which the author may submit their work for evaluationby a team of professionals, receive a read and if positive,may purchase its editing service.Roli Books is an Indian general trade publisher covering awide range of subjects and was founded by Pramod Kapoorin 1978. Roli began first publishing children’s booksand subsequently moved on to illustrated book and hasrecently launched about 40 titles as ebooks.Saxo, the Danish leader in content management, circulationsystems and audience solutions, launched in September2012 its dedicated platform for self-publishing, calledSaxo Publish.Shelff, launched in May 2013, is a German digital-onlypublisher with its headquarter in Berlin. Shelff wants tobenefit from all advantages of the digital publishing.Sobooks, a project of the German blogger and online activistSascha Lobo, was launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair2013 as closed beta version. It is a reading platform butdigital bookshop and small digital publisher at the sametime.Sterling Publishers, the Delhi-based Indian publisher, publishesgeneral interest and children’s books and began tooffer a wide collection of ebooks in EPUB format.The House of Books is a new Dutch publishing companiesfor fiction, nonfiction and children’s books, with a strongfocus on ebooks.tredition, incorporated in 2006, is a publishing housebased in Hamburg/Germany and started out as a selfpublishingservice provider for book publications in Germany.tredition developed several tools for automatedpublication of books in ebook and printed format.Tulika Publishers is a South Indian multi-lingual children’sbooks publishing house and was founded in 1996. TulikaPublishers was among the first to experiment with bookapps.131 The Global eBook Report
Aggregators, distributors andother service providersA100knygu is an ebook store in Lithuania.ggregators and distributors are mostly B2Bservice companies aiming at connecting contentand distribution services.Acaiaca, one of the largest national book distributors inBrazil, offers full-service management of online contentdigital (ebooks), taking care of all tasks from the administrationand distribution to settlement.ACK Media is India’s leading entertainment and educationcompany for young audiences. ACK Media, publisher of thepopular Amar Chitra Katha series, has also jumped on thedigital bandwagon for its mythological comics.AKB eBOOKS, founded in 2011, is India’s first ebook bestsellersand first successful independent ebook storelaunched by the author Ashok Banker. As of April 2013, AKBeBOOKS had sold over 50,000 ebooks.Alezaa.com, launched in late 2011 by Vinapo, is a Vietnameseebook distributor with adequate ecosystem (estore,reading platform & building tool). With Alezaa, you cancreate interactive books, which are instantly delivered onmulti platform.Allzone Digital Services is a premier provider of e-publishing Services. Allzone Digital Services is headquarteredin Los Angeles (United States) and has offices in London(United Kingdom) and has two state-of-the art deliverycenters in Chennai and Vellore (India) with over 500+employees. The company provides a complete range ofebooks - related services such as typesetting, fixed layouts,ebooks, e-learning, XML conversions, HTML5 and apps development.Amabook is a Spanish online store with presence in ninecountries (in Latin America and US) that offers an affiliateprogram. Amabook comes with the latest features to allowbuying digital books, easily and fastly. It also allows externaleditors publishing ebooks, and creates an online internationalbusiness channel.Andrews UK Limited is a privately held company in theUnited Kingdom, formed in the year 2000, by its currentCEO Paul Andrews. AUK has a publishing partnership modelfor both authors and publishers, in which the rightsowners work with AUK at no cost to them, and AUK willconvert all the content into the various formats and thenwill then distribute the content globally and split the incomeearned with the rights owners with no deductionsat all.aNobii, an online book community, was launched in January2006, and it reportedly has millions of members fromall over the world, including around 300,000 members inItaly. In January 2014, aNobii was sold to the Italian publisherArnoldo Mondadori Editore.Apabi, founded in 2006, a Chinese global leading providerof digital publishing technologies and services, offerscomprehensive digital publishing technologies and solutionsto publishers of newspapers, periodicals and magazines.More than 90% of the publishing houses in Chinaare using digital publishing technologies and platformsfrom Apabi to publish ebooks, and the number of titlesexceeds 2.2 million.Arta Tech, a Polish company, creates dedicated softwarefor ebook reading devices for the comfort of the users aswell as for education purposes. Arta Tech gives support toThe Global eBook Report 132
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