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those who would like to create their own software for OnyxBoox e-readers. Its domain is to create dedicated IT solutionsfor ebook and econtent distribution platforms.arvato Systems was founded in 1996 and is headquarteredin Gütersloh, Germany. arvato Systems develops and marketsintegrated software solutions for broadcasting andmedia industries in Germany and internationally. It providesmedia sales, channel management, media research,production planning, digital media management, andbusiness intelligence solutions. The company also offersconsulting, development, integration, application management,and systems operation services.Atingo, launched in 2013 by Publit together with the technologyprovider Axiell, is a Swedish open platform forebook lending services. Atingo helps libraries and publishersto negotiate price, availability and terms in realtime.Baker & Taylor, founded in 1828, is one of the oldest printbook distributors in the United States. But only in 2011, itentered the ebook market with its own fully-fledged digitalmedia platform, Axis 360. Axis 360 provides librarieswith a state-of-the-art system for circulating digital booksand audiobooks.Barcelona eBooks is a Spanish spin-off of Roca Editorial, aprominent publishing house in Barcelona. Roca Editorialand Barcelona eBooks encourage a cultural exchange andmake it possible to seek out the world’s best books forpublication in both the Spanish and English languages. InSpain, Roca Editorial already publishes E. L. Doctorow,Nicholas Sparks, Christopher Paolini, Michael Connelly,Noah Gordon, Robert Crais, Edward Rutherfurd, Don Winslow,and John Verdon.Beam eBooks was founded in 2005 in Berlin, Germany. It isan online ebook shop providing a broad variety ofGerman-language literature, from crime thrillers to specialistbooks. Ebooks from Beam eBooks can be read onvarious devices and are not restricted by DRM. The rangeof ebooks is constantly being extended.Bezkartek(literally “book without pages”), launched in2009, is a Polish platform and dedicated to the distributionof ebooks, audiobooks, ereaders, and Apple iPhones. Itscatalog includes 145,000 books, of which 1,400 are in Polish.Biblio offers digital books in Bulgaria.Biblos, the Slovenian ebook library distribution platform,has started in September 2013 and qickly registered morethan 7,000 ebook library users. It is owned by the localfiction publisher Studentska zalozba.Blankpage is a Swiss start-up company that empowerspublishers through consulting and technology to securelydistribute and monetize their electronic content. It offerssolutions for protecting, selling, transferring and viewingbooks, magazines and newspapers on various devices.BoD - Books on Demand, founded in 1997, is the Germanmarket and technology leader for digital book publicationsin continental Europe and offers publishers, indieauthors and other content providers professional servicesin the fields of production and distribution. Today BoD hasmore than 1.2 million titles on its list of publications andensures availability in all traditional book stores and morethan 1,000 online bookshops. Ebooks published by BoDare distributed through major e-bookshops such as AmazonKindle-Shop, Apple iBooks, Google Play etc. BoD operatesin Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Sweden,Denmark, Norway and Finland.Bokon, launched in December 2012, is a Swedish start-uponline ebook store mainly owned by media group Schibstedand publishing house Piratforlaget.Bokskya, the Norwegian ebook service, was launched inApril 2011. The service was intended as a national industrywidestandard infrastructure for the distribution of ebooksto consumers and was initiated by the largest Norwegianpublishers and a wide array of booksellers.BOL, Netherland’s leading online store, has teamed upsince 2010 with ebook retailer txtr to provide a preloadedebook app on all Samsung Galaxy tablets and smartphonesit sells. To protect authors’ copyright, the txtr appsupports digital reading with a fully embedded AdobeDRM system.BookBaby is a US-company that specializes in selfpublishingtools and resources, founded in 2010. BookBabydigitally distributes the works of independent authors,poets, memoirists, and publishers, making their ebooksavailable on the most popular ereaders worldwide.Bookboon is a Danish company, originally started in 2005,and focused on student textbooks written by their own inhousestaff and freelancers. In 2010, they started to diversifytheir portfolio and integrated travel guides and businessbooks. Currently they have over 1,000 ebooks on theirwebsite and 250 in production to be released over thecourse of this year. The company based on their success133 The Global eBook Report