FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ABC-CLIO Announces New Partnerships with eBook Distributors
Customers Gain Convenience and Sourcing Options with ABC-CLIO eBooks
Santa Barbara, CA — September 8, 2006 — ABC-CLIO, the award-winning history reference publisher, announces the formation of eBook distributor partnerships with Ebook Library and MyiLibrary. This move offers added convenience and sourcing options for their customers, who can now continue to purchase eBooks directly through ABC-CLIO, from either of these new distributor partners, or from NetLibrary, another distributor that has been offering ABC-CLIO's ebook titles.
With over 500 eBook titles to choose from, ABC-CLIO offers a premier collection of history reference sources that includes award-winning encyclopedias, handbooks, dictionaries, and guides. Subject areas cover American and world history, current issues, military history, cultural geography, folklore and mythology, history of science, technology, and environment, and history of religion.
“ABC-CLIO's award-winning titles are an excellent addition to our collection, adding particular strength to our social sciences selection,” said Kari Paulson, President of Ebook Library. “ABC-CLIO has been a strong supporter of ebook technologies and early adopter of the digital medium. We are delighted with this new partnership and to be able to supply ABC-CLIO titles to our library customers.”
The entire catalog of ABC-CLIO titles is now available through Ebook Library, MyiLibrary, or NetLibrary. All three distributors offer versatile eContent platforms that contain continually updated catalogs of eBooks.
ABC-CLIO Contact
Lyn Peyok / (800) 368-6868
lpeyok@abc-clio.com
About ABC-CLIO
Celebrating 50 years of reference publishing in 2005, ABC-CLIO is a privately held company founded and owned by the Boehm family. The company's corporate headquarters is in Santa Barbara, CA, with offices in Denver, CO, and Oxford, England. Committed to serving the history profession, history teachers, and students and scholars of history, ABC-CLIO annually publishes approximately 80 encyclopedias, guides, and handbooks. Since 1991, this acclaimed reference book line has won over 60 best-reference awards from the American Library Association and Library Journal. Its best known publications are the abstracting and indexing services Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life, which together represent the largest bibliographic history database in the world. ABC-CLIO also has a large eBook program with all reference book titles published in both print and electronic formats.
About Ebook Library (EBL)
EBL is an institutional ebook purchasing and lending platform developed by Ebooks Corporation. EBL made its debut in late 2004 and has quickly risen to become an industry leader. With customers throughout North America, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Europe, the United Kingdom, and Africa the company has more than doubled its content collection year on year and can now boast an impressive selection of over 60,000 titles across all disciplines. This rate of growth is expected to continue in the forthcoming year.
For more information, visit the Ebook Library website at:
www.eblib.com
About MyiLibrary
MyiLibrary is a company that specializes in the production of world class technology solutions for the distribution and hosting of electronic books, journals and other content. The MyiLibrary e-content platform contains some of the most current and topical eBook collections available today, with collections both from Intergovernmental Agencies such as the World Health Organization and the World Bank, as well as from some of the world's largest commercial publishers such as Springer, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Wiley and Oxford University Press. MyiLibrary has over 2 million uses, offers direct on-line access to tens of thousands of books and works closely with all customers and publishers to promote the electronics dissemination of e-content, be that database, books or journals.
For more information, visit the MyiLibrary website at:
www.myilibrary.com
About NetLibrary
Based in Boulder, Colorado, NetLibrary is a division of Online Computer Library Center, Inc., a worldwide library cooperative. NetLibrary provides eContent and technical delivery solutions to institutional libraries, corporations and government agencies that facilitate the purchase, management and distribution of research, reference, digital learning, and general interest content via Web-based technologies. NetLibrary's eContent solution is the most broadly adopted in the market, making the content of more than 400 publishers and eContent providers available through more than 14,000 libraries worldwide.
For more information, visit the NetLibrary website at:
www.netlibrary.org