Early e-media pioneers continue to grow revenues as they move on to a ‘second phase’ of serving content to users.

By James Sturdivant

“Although we were not the first STM publisher to bring e-books to the market, we were the first publisher to do so on a meaningful scale and with a very progressive, customer-friendly business model,” he says. “In June 2006, when we launched the Springer eBook Collection, we had 10,000 books. Now, we have almost 20,000.”