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about 60,000 ebooks. In November 2011 Casa del Librolaunched its ereader Tagus, giving consumers access to“the largest Spanish-language book catalog in the world,”according to director Xavi Solà.Casalini Libri Torrossa, launched in 2011, is an Italian fullebook platform and hosts, to-date, 15000 ebooks, and 650ejournals from 160 publishers and new content is addedevery week.CB is the leading distributor for ebooks in the Netherlands,and they reported that the number of available titles grewfrom 19,230 to 28,319 with the majority of titles (80%) protectedby digital watermark DRM. They also reported thatthe growth rate was accelerating, with the 2013 ebooksales equaling the combined sales of 2013 and 2012(720,000 ebooks).ceebo, an German ebook platform launched in March 2011by Media Control, can already look back on more than twoyears of successful production and is a neutral ebook alternativefor traders.Ciando is a German independent retail platform forebooks, based in Munich, with 325,000 currently availabletitles from about 1,650 publishing houses, including bothindependent (e.g., Hanser, Campus) and corporate (e.g.,Random House, the Bonnier group) as well as international(e.g., Pearson Education, Wiley, O’Reilly) publishers.Chichili Agency, founded by Karsten Sturm in 2009, is aGerman literary agency specialized on ebooks. Since 2010,the agency has a close partnership with the technicalebook provider Satzweiss.Ciela, established in 1991, is a Bulgarian publishing houseand one of the leading ebook distributors in that country.Círculo de Lectores is the largest community of readers inSpain since 1962. In recent years, Círculo de Lectores hasentered the digital world with force, with numerousprojects including the launch of the virtual platform Booquoin 2012, and the creation of its own digital imprint,arrobabooks, and of Nubico, a major platform for the commercializationof ebooks, in partnership with Telefónica.Clearpassion is a French online ebook shop specialized onerotic literature.Contentment is a London based tech start-up buildingtools for publishers. Its cloud-hosted platform, Padify,makes it simple and cost effective to remix content intoapps, digital magazines and ebooks that will work on alldevices.Contentra Technologies, established in 2005 in India, deliversfull life-cycle content management services that includecontent creation, capture, digitization, preservation,and distribution to leading publishers, content aggregatorsthrough five offices across the United States, Europe,and India.Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), the rights licensing expert,is a global rights broker for the world’s most soughtafterbooks, journals, blogs, movies and more, founded in1978. In 2010, CCC established RightsDirect, to providingcopyright compliance solutions for European based companiesto re-use and share the most relevant print anddigital content in books, journals, newspapers, magazinesand images.Cubolibri is Telecom Italia’s online store dedicated to thedigital publishing trade. In 2012 it changed its name fromBiblet to Cubolibri. On cubolibri, readers will find a comprehensiveand constantly updated catalog boastingaround 23,000 ebook titles in Italian by major authors,both Italian and foreign and distributed by the most importanteditorial publishers.DAISY consortium was formed in May 1996 in Switzerlandby talking book libraries to lead the worldwide transitionfrom analog to digital talking books. The consortium wantsto make ebooks accessible for everyone by contributingto the development of open accessible standards (DAISY,EPUB 3) and supporting the inclusive publishing ecosystemaround the world.Dajianet, a Chinese ebook distribution platform, was introducedin 2011 by China Publishing Group Corporation,one of the largest players in the Chinese publishing industry.Dalim Software, based in Germany, is since 1985 a globalleader in design and development of scalable productivityand workflow solutions for the graphic communicationsindustry.Datamatics, founded in 1975 in India, to help publishers,media companies and retailers embrace the digital landscape.In addition to online enablement services, Datamaticsalso offers smart solutions for the media and publishingcompanies.Dawson France is since 1925 the French office of DawsonBooks, which is part of the Bertrams Group and Europe’slargest supplier of academic books, ebooks, shelf readyservices and information systems to the University and FEmarkets. In the continually expanding world of library135 The Global eBook Report