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that publishes RNTS branded digital content and assistsdigital content providers and developers through marketingstrategy for international distribution and promotions.Rufoof, founded in 2010 in the United Arab Emirates, is anebook portal offering publishers a complete line of servicesfrom digital conversion to distribution. Rufoof distributes4,500 ebooks and has signed contracts with 21 publisherswith a subscriber base of 74,000 worldwide.Satzweiss, a Germany-based company providing end-toendebook publishing services and tools.Sellbox, founded in 2002 in the United States, providesebook strategy consulting, conversion services, Create-Space POD publishing support and ebook marketing servicesincluding distribution to the largest ebook stores.Shelton Interactive, founded in the summer of 2010, is aUS full-service digital agency that works with books andbrands. Shelton Interactive creates social media and digitalstrategies focused on helping authors and publishinghouses build better relationships with media, readers, customersand colleagues online and off.Simplicissimus, was founded by Antonio Tombolini in June2006. Simplicissimus operates an ebook distribution platform(STEALTH), and a self-publishing platform (Narcissus),which was launched in 2012.Sina.com is the largest social media platform for Chinesepeople around the world. Sina.com introduced reading aswell as writing platform, bundled with ebook distributionto large user communities.Skaitykle is the first ebook store in Lithuania where you canbuy e-readers and ebooks in Lithuanian. This platform alsosells reading devices.Smashwords, founded in 2008 in the United States, is anebook self-publishing and distribution platform foundedby Mark Coker. Smashwords provides ebooks in all kinds ofdifferent file formats. In August 2013, Flipkart inked a dealwith Smashwords to distribute its tiles in India.Sourcefabric, launched in 2010, is established as a Czechnon-profit organization with its headquarters in Prague,branches in Berlin and Toronto, and representatives inMinsk, Guatemala, Warsaw, Belgrade and Cluj. Sourcefabricprovides new organizations with the software, expertiseand support to produce it online, in print and on air.SPi Global is a multinational platform and one of theworld’s largest and most diversified Business Process Outsourcing(BPO) service providers in terms of clients, geographicpresence, and capabilities.STEALTH, an Italian distribution platform of digital books,was designed and created at Simplicissismus Book Farm byLuca Razzano. It is a digital warehouse in which you canstore and preserve ebooks in EPUB (and/or PDF) format sothat all the current and future ebook stores can obtainthem whenever needed for sale. STEALTH is already capableof supplying all the relevant online bookstores likeAmazon, Apple, Kobo, Nook, Lafeltrinelli, IBS.it, BOL.it, UltimaBooks.it.Submarino is an online retail platform in Brazil. In 2012 waslaunched The Submarino Digital Club by Copia Interactive,LLC, creator of one of the largest, independent, fullfeatureddigital content platforms.TEA, the French ebook alternative was created 2012 byDecitre.fr, France’s third largest online bookstore. It is anopen source platform for ebooks allowing readers to purchaseany kind of book on any type of e-reader.Tertiary Publishing is a one-stop ebook and e-magazinepublishing provider based in Singapore. Tertiary Publishingprovides EPUB3 and Mobi conversion services from PDF,Word documents, InDesign, HTML and RTF formats.Todoebook is Publidisa’s solution for selling ebooks. Todoebook.comis a Spanish platform designed to meet theneeds of publishers that wish to market their content onlinein ebook format. The Todoebook.com platform allowspublishers to sell ebooks on their own websites or throughthe affiliate program in some of the top online bookstores.Trajectory, founded in late 2011, is a technology and marketingoriented multichannel distribution company in theUnited States which simplifies the process of creating anddistributing ebooks. Production is in-house. Trajectorymarkets high-quality catalogs, particularly children’s illustratedbooks, for conversion to ebooks and global distribution.143 The Global eBook Report