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FastPencil is an US publishing service and writing communityfor authors and publishers. The company wasfounded in 2007 and it was purchased in 2013 by the CourierCorporation, an innovative US book manufacturer andcontent management provider. FastPencil providesauthors and publishers with full-featured, open-platformsolutions spanning content, workflow, marketing and distribution.It provides simple automated systems to helpself-publishers get to market quickly and effectively inboth print and ebook form.Feiyr, founded in 1993, is a German distributor for creativemusicians and writers. Feiyr can publish ebooks in morethan 160 shops worldwide and millions of readers will haveaccess on it.Firebrand’s Content Services is an US leading publishingindustry technology services company that was foundedin 1987. Firebrand’s Content Services is dedicated to providingleading software and services to help publishersachieve success.Firstsource, founded in 2001, is an Indian onshore offshorepublishing services provider focusing on EPUB3, publishingback office services, data conversion, magazine production,editorial services and an innovative platform foroptimizing and automating the rights and persmissionsprocess.Flipkart started in 2007 in India as an online retailer ofbooks with the objective of making books easily availableto anyone who had internet access. Later Flipkart introducedother categories of products as well. In 2013 thecompany launched its ebooks app for three new platforms—iOS, Windows Phone and PC browsers. Flipkart alreadyhad an Android app, which was launched in late November2012.Fnac, founded in 1954, is the largest chain bookstore, alsoselling music and movies in France, with revenues of€4,473 million. Fnac has additional ventures in Belgium,Switzerland, Spain, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Taiwan, andBrazil. Fnac offers a catalog of 82,000 ebooks, and operatesin a partnership with Kobo.Gato Sabido was the first Brazilian ebook store, launchedin December 2009, with 150 titles for sale and now featuresa broad range of over 7,000 ebooks across a number ofgenres.Green Apple Data Center, established in 1992, has morethan 1,000 clients all over North America, Europe and Asiaas a service provider and specialist in digital production.Gutenberg Technology, established in 2010 in France, providesdigital publishing solutions for publishers. It has developedan end-to-end workflow disruptive authoringtool that bridges the gap between creation and productiondepartment in a publishing company, saves DTP timeand enables publishing on multiple platforms simultaneously(Print, Web, Tablets, ereaders and smartphones).HathiTrust, founded in October 2008 by the thirteen universitiesof the Committee on Institutional Cooperationand the University of California, is a partnership of US academicand research institutions, offering a collection ofmillions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.HathiTrust is a digital preservation repository and highlyfunctional access platform, including notably content digitizedthrough Google Books.Helikon is an ebook distributor in Bulgaria.hgv - Hanseatische Gesellschaft für Verlagservice is a serviceproviders to publishing houses in Germany and wasfounded in 1989 as a subsidiary of the _Georg von Holtzbrinckpublishing groupincluding IT solutions, customerand financial service, production and logistics to digitaldelivery.(((IBA) IBA, was launched 2012 by Abril, one of the largestmedia groups in the Brazil. IBA is a new digital retailingplatform with 25 magazine titles, 19 newspapers and 6,000ebooks from 170 publishers – making it one of the largestebook retailers in Brazil, following Gato Sabido, which has7,300 ebooks, and Saraiva, which has around 6,000.IBS is the leading Italian online platform for ebooks.Immanens, started in 2004, is a French company involvedin all digital publishing worlds (retail press, book trade,education). Immanens is the leading French partner formagazine and book publishers for their digital projectswith more than 500 publications, 15 publishers in education,8 million deliveries per year. Leader textbook distributionplatform in France (Lib').Immatériel, founded in 2008, is one of the main distributionplatforms of digital books in France and the designersof various new-generation online digital libraries with themission of facilitating the diffusion of digital works whatevertheir access mode.iMobilco was founded in 2008 by the Sergey and NikolayBelousov brothers. iMobilco is the first digital content shopin the Russian market, providing a full range of servicesand sells electronic books, videos, and music online. Thecompany currently offers its customers one of the mostThe Global eBook Report 138