extended ranges of books and audio books in Russia. iMobilcohas also produced a special application for readingebooks on iPhone, iPad, and Android as well iMobilco’s ownelectronic book reader, iChitalka.Ingram, based in the United States, is the world’s largestand most trusted distributor of physical and digital content.Ingram provides books, music and media content toover 38,000 retailers, libraries, schools and distributionpartners in 195 countries. More than 25,000 publishers useIngram’s fully integrated physical and digital solutions andprograms to realize the full business potential of books.IngramSpark, launched in 2013 in the United States, is theonly publishing platform that delivers fully integratedprint and digital distribution services to the book industrythrough a single source. Therefore, the main feature ofSpark is that authors can now publish ebooks and physicalbooks at exactly the same time.Innodata, founded in 1988 in New York / USA, is a globalprovider of business processes, information technologyand professional services which help clients create, manage,use, and distribute digital information. Having workedwith over 880 global publishers, converted / distributedover 1.75 million titles in 25 languages and by serving themanufacturers of ebook reading devices, as well as trade,education, and professional publishers, Innodata is one ofthe largest producers of ebooks. The company manufacturesebooks in multiple formats, as well as enhanced, interactive,dual-, and multi-lingual ebooks.INscribe, launched in 2010 in the United States, has quicklyestablished itself as a leader in the ebook publishing servicesspace. INscribe provides global digital distribution,content conversion and optimization services to large andsmall publishers. INscribe Digital’s retail network is quicklyexpanding; they are an approved delivery partner of Appleand have deals with Amazon, Sony, Barnes & Noble andKobo.Integral is a company with its headquarter in India andoffices in Boston, Sydney and Jaipur, specializing in providingDigital Publishing solutions, ebook conversion, Prepressproduction, XML solutions, and Digitization services.iStoryTime is a German publisher of children’s storybooksfor the iPhone, founded in 2009. The company wants tomake children’s books more accessible and entertainingand has created a new medium for established and firsttime authors to showcase their work at no expense. Thenew publishing platform provides parents with a library ofcompelling children’s books available anytime and anywhere.Izneo, founded in 2010, is a French digital comic distributor.Izneo were formed as a partnership of 12 comics publishersand its big success was to overpass 3,000 titles atthe beginning of 2013 having no more than 25 partners.http//www.klopotek.com[Klopotek] is a leading supplierof software and consulting services for publishers of booksand journals, print and online. More than 350 publishers,with over 14,000 users, rely on Klopotek to help them achievetheir goals. Klopotek software supports the entirepublishing value chain for print and digital products. Klopoteksponsors cutting-edge research and networkingwithin the publishing industry. The company has offices inEurope (Amsterdam, Berlin, Munich, Paris and London)and in the USA (Parsippany/New Jersey).KN Digital, founded in 2011, is a German joint brand of KNVWholesale and KNO VA Distribution Services offering highlyintegrated e-commerce solutions, print on demand anddigital warehousing as well as distribution for ebooks andall other digital items.KnigaFund was launched in September 2008 by DigitalDistribution Center Ltd., the largest Russian legal digitalcontent distributor. KnigaFund has more than 100 universitiesamong its subscribers, more than 50,000 ebooks andabove 40,000 active user accounts. The word KnigaFund isRussian equivalence for English The Book Fund.KNV, founded in 1829, is Germany’s biggest book wholesalerwith worldwide export of books in various languagesand multimedia products. About 500,000 titles are availableimmediately and further 9 millions foreign languagetitles can be obtained on special order service. Specialservices for online booksellers are offered as well as ebooks(about 300.000) and PoD titles.Knygos is a Lithuanian ebook distributor.Kontor New Media, founded in 2003, is a German digitaldistributor for all kind of media, no matter if it is music,music videos, movies, TV shows, ebooks or audio books.Kontor New Media also exploits content on platforms likeYouTube/Google, Maxdome, Lovefilm, On Demand Distributionor in the fields of mobile entertainment through itspartners Vodafone, T-Mobile, AT&T and more.La Factoria, founded in 2000, is a Spanish leading partnerfor interactive educational digital content to the publishingindustry. La Facotoria has more than ten years of professionalexperience in multimedia products design, edu-139 The Global eBook Report
cational interactive and the development of customizeddigital applications.Leer-e is the one-stop shop where Spanish-language publishersand retailers of ebook and digital content meet. Thecompany offers a complete range of services for publishers:digitization, translation, editing, conversion, publication,promotion, and distribution (including its own onlineshops for publishers).le-tex, a German company since 1999, specializes in contentengineering – the highly varied range of tasks involvedin producing publications. Alongside print data,the items most frequently produced by le-tex are ebooks.Libranda, founded in 2010, is the biggest Spanish ebookplatform and act as a digital distributor with no direct-toconsumersales.libreka is a German platform launched by Börsenverein in2006, offering ebooks since 2009, with more than 980,000ebook titles. Libreka claims to be the largest German distributorof ebooks. Owned and run by Börsenverein, Librekahas recently announced several partnerships — such aswith Kobo in July 2011 — to position itself as a link betweenretail platforms and publishers.Librify is a New York-based social US ebook retail start-up,founded in 2013, targeting book clubs. Librify co-founderand CEO Joanna Stone describes the start-up as “Goodreadsplus a book-of-the-month retail platform.”Librusek was launched in June 2007. It is a Russian onlinelibrary, for which readers can purchase a monthly subscription.LitRes, founded in 2007 and based in Moscow/Russia, isthe largest ebook retail platform for legal titles in Russia,currently listing 200,000 ebook and audio titles for downloadand its own LitRes Touch device. The Russian ebookretailer has raised $5 million in its first round of funding. Itoffers over 380,000 ebooks in Russian from over 100 publishinghouses.Livraria Cultura has a chain of 14 stores in Brazil as well asa website where they sell all sorts of media in addition tobooks and ebooks. Livraria Cultura had an ebook storesince 2010. In 2012, Kobo closed an exclusive deal with theLivraria Cultura bookshop chain to sell Kobo ereaders andebooks.Livraria Saraiva is the largest Brazilian bookstore chain,with over 100 stores around the country. Their ebook storewas launched in early 2010. In 2013 Saraiva has launchedits own self-publishing portal, “Publique-se!,” which translatesto “Publish it yourself,” and offers 35% royalties toauthors.Mantano, a French company, is developing software fordigital publishing, e-reading and e-learning since 2007and has contributed to the rise of e-reading by providingpowerful, robust and smooth applications that facilitateits adoption.Martinus, founded in 2001, is the largest internet bookstoreand a growing chain of brick-and-mortar bookstoresin Slovakia. In its segment, Martinus.sk is the biggest e-bookstore with the highest traffic by number of servedcustomers.Midvox, founded in 2000, is an independent service providerfor the book trade. Midvox offers marketing solutionsfor online bookshops, local bookshops and publishinghouses.Minha Biblioteca, founded in 2011 in Brazil, is a digitalcontent consortium created by four of Brazil’s largest scientific,technical, and medical (STM) publishers – EditoraAtlas, Grupo A Editoras, GEN – Grupo Editorial Nacionaland Editora Saraiva. The consortium’s catalog exceeds12,000 ebook titles and covers almost all areas of knowledge,particularly in the areas of law, health, business administrationand engineering.MintRight, founded in 2010, is a US ebook conversion anddistribution platform. This platform adapts the contentaccording to the specifications of different e-readers andformats it for distribution to the selected sellers, rangingfrom Apple to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Sony et al.Mobcast is a British digital book platform provider and wasfounded in 2007 by CEO Tony Lynch and bestselling authorAndy McNab. In 2012, Mobcast has been purchased by theretail giant Tesco in order to have its own digital book distributionplatform, including cloud-based storage for thebooks. Mobcast is responsible for BlinkBox Books service.moresophy founded in 2011, offers software applicationsfor the analysis and structuring of big data and informationin client-oriented web-applications and has quickly establisheditself in the field of developing intelligent contentsolutions. Leading German publishers, e.g., Haufe Lexware,the Klett Group, WEK, and Dashöfer Publishing trust moresophywith their digital business and consulting expertise.Multimediaplaza is a leading distributor of ebooks in Hungary.The Global eBook Report 140
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