Distribution Goes Digital
Among the DADs Shatzkin mentions are The University of Chicago Press’ BiblioVault; codeMantra’s conversion house; HarperCollins’ use of NewsStand Inc./LibreDigital for its digital warehouse; Ingram Digital (see my column in Book Business’ April issue for a flowchart of Ingram Digital’s services); Macmillan’s BookStore; Random House; and Value Chain International. A serious new entry announced at BookExpo America 2007 is Macmillan Publishing Solutions’ MPS Macmobile, a wireless application protocol (WAP)-enabled Internet-based delivery system for content in all formats to any portable-device platform. (See page 10 for more about MPS Macmobile.)
- Companies:
- Amazon.com
- Books24x7 Inc.
- codeMantra
- Consortium
- Ebrary Inc.
- HarperCollins
- Independent Publishers Group
- Ingram Digital
- Klopotek
- Libre Digital
- Lightning Source Inc.
- Lightspeed LLC
- Macmillan Publishing Solutions
- Mobipocket
- NetLibrary
- NewsStand Inc.
- Overdrive Inc.
- PMA
- Publishing Dimensions
- Random House Inc.
- The Book Industry Study Group
- Universal
- Yahoo
Eugene G. Schwartz is editor at large for ForeWord Reviews, an industry observer and an occasional columnist for Book Business magazine. In an earlier career, he was in the printing business and held production management positions at Random House, Prentice-Hall/Goodyear and CRM Books/Psychology Today. A former PMA (IBPA) board member, he has headed his own publishing consultancy, Consortium House. He is also Co-Founder of Worthy Shorts Inc., a development stage online private press and publication service for professionals as well as an online back office publication service for publishers and associations. He is on the Publishing Business Conference and Expo Advisory Board.