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Polc.hu, a Hungarian online bookstore, has been merchandizingebooks in Hungarian since March 2011.Primento, founded in 2010, is the Belgium strategic digitalpartner of traditional publishers. Primento works with publishersto ensure their ebooks meet their digital audience.Publidisa, founded in 2000 in Sevilla/Spain, offers servicesincluding the creation of protected ebooks from publicationssupplied by publishers in digital format and theirmarketing on the Internet.PubCoder, launched in March 2013, is a start-up based inTurin, Italy. It has been founded by the experience of agroup of friends, active for many years in the digital publishing.PubCoder builds higly interactive stories and preparesdigital books for a multi-platform distribution:EPUB3 iBooks and Readium ready, Kindle and many more.Publio is a Polish online bookstore. Its advantage despitea variety of titles from the best Polish publishers is extensivefunctionality and the ability to download the books informats enabling to read them on various mobiles appliances,inter alia, on Kindle.Publit is Sweden’s second-largest ebook distributor andinitially offered print-on-demand services. Publit has integratedwith all major booksellers in Sweden, as well assome international sellers/distributors such as Kobo, Overdriveand iBooks.Publiwide, founded in 2010, is a Swiss company providingpublishers and authors with a range of specialist softwaresolutions that aim at streamlining editorial workflow forthe distribution of dynamic ebooks to a global audience.Publ Studio, founded in 2011, is a Korean publisher of interactivedigital media and G-learning content for iOS andAndroid devices. It specializes in appbook creation, mobilegaming content, and smart platforms.Publizon, founded in 2005, is Denmark’s largest distributionportal for ebooks and represents a large number oflarger and smaller publishers. Publizon is currently focusingon PDF and EPUB formats. The platform releases aweekly top ten ebook bestseller list, which currently displaysa significant share of Scandinavian fiction.Qbend, an US based company founded in 2010, is is a fullservice digital partner that enables publishers establishand maximize their ebooks business. QBend provides aplatform for publishers to go directly to their consumersand helps them interact with their readers to see what theylike and what they want more of.Qordoba, a Canadian and Lebanese company with its legalheadquarters in Dubai, was launched in 2011 as an initiativespecializing in digitally publishing Arab writers. Ultimately,Qordoba wants to cover all subjects and distributethem on its own platform. Titles will be made available inEPUB, across all major platforms, including Apple, Android,Windows, websites, and Samsungs’s Smart TV.Rahva Raamat is a historical bookstore established in 1912in Estonia. Rahva Raamat’s flagship store, which is also thelargest of its kind in the Baltic countries, was opened inViru Keskus in 2004. Its estore is one of the most successfulonline bookstores in Estonia and the biggest seller ofebooks.readbox, founded 2008 in Germany, supports publishersin the production, the marketing and the distribution ofebooks and other digital products.ReadCloud is an Australian company founded in April2009, providing a white-label e-commerce platform,which allows bookstores to sell ebooks online. It waslaunched in November 2011 and over 100 bookstores inAustralia have signed up to the platform.Reader Store is an online ebook store where readers canfind a large variety of ebooks which are all available fordownload directly to all compatible devices. In December2012, Sony opened its own dedicated German ebookstore.Read Forward LLC, founded in 2012, is a Romanian digitalstudio dedicated to building book-apps (Apple, Android,Windows). Its catalog includes fiction and non-fiction titles,books for children, and other cultural apps.Readfy, a German digital platform that is offering freeebook service, was launched on 7 February 2014 (initiallyin the form of a limited “public beta launch”). Readfy offersa sophisticated reader app for Android smartphones andtablets containing a catalog of more than 15,000 books ofvery different genres by more than 120 publishing housesthat can be read for free for the first time on Readfy. Thelaunch of the completely finished Readfy platform is plannedfor the summer of 2014.Riidr, founded in 2010, is a Danish start-up company thatsells ebooks via and has developed reading applicationsfor Android and iOS. Riidr delivers end-to-end technologyand reading platforms so publishers and media companiescan focus on sales.RNTS Media was established in 2010 and is headquarteredin Berlin, Germany. RNTS Media is a multimedia publisherThe Global eBook Report 142