Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading
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PUBLICATION SPONSORS
BISG wishes to thank the following companies for their generous support of Volume One (2009-2010), Volume Two (2010-2011), and Volume Three (2011-2012) of Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading.Ongoing sponsorship opportunities are available. Email Angela Bole for more information.
Volume Three (2012)
Volume Two (2011)
Volume One (2010)
Volume Three Sponsors (2012)
SUPPORTER
Baker & Taylor, Inc. is a global information and entertainment services company that offers print and digital books and entertainment products along with value-added services to libraries, educational institutions and retailers. Based in Charlotte, N.C., the company has been in existence for more than 180 years, developing long-term relationships with major suppliers, including book publishers, movie studios and music labels. Baker & Taylor maintains one of the largest combined in-stock book, video and music inventories in the United States, and services the broadest customer base in the industry. Baker & Taylor is majority owned by Castle Harlan Partners IV, L.P., a leading private equity investment firm.
CONTRIBUTORS
Barnes & Noble, Inc. is the world's largest bookseller and the leading retailer of content, digital media, and educational products. Barnes & Noble conducts its online business through Barnes & Noble.com, which features more than two million titles in its NOOK Bookstore (TM). Through Barnes & Noble's NOOK e‑reading product offering, customers can buy and read digital books and content on the widest range of platforms, including NOOK devices, partner company products, and the most popular mobile and computing devices using free NOOK software.
Harlequin is the global leader in series romance and one of the world's leading publishers of books for women, with titles issued worldwide in 32 languages and sold in 115 international markets. The company produces over 110 titles monthly and publishes more than 1,100 authors from around the world. Harlequin has offices in 19 countries, including offices in Toronto, New York, and London. For more information, please visit www. eHarlequin.com.
Volume Two Sponsors (2011)
CHAMPION
Direct Brands, Inc. is the leader in direct-to-consumer member based marketing, trusted by millions to provide quality products that satisfy their lifestyle passions. Delivering the highest-grossing and most extensive back catalog of DVDs, bestselling books, and chart-topping CDs to America's most passionate home entertainment consumers. Our category-leading brands include household names such as Doubleday Book Club, Book-of-the-Month Club, Stephen King Library, Columbia House DVD Club, and Your Music.com, as well as a number of special interest and lifestyle book clubs.
SUPPORTER
Baker & Taylor, Inc. is a global information and entertainment services company that offers print and digital books and entertainment products along with value-added services to libraries, educational institutions and retailers. Based in Charlotte, N.C., the company has been in existence for more than 180 years, developing long-term relationships with major suppliers, including book publishers, movie studios and music labels. Baker & Taylor maintains one of the largest combined in-stock book, video and music inventories in the United States, and services the broadest customer base in the industry. Baker & Taylor is majority owned by Castle Harlan Partners IV, L.P., a leading private equity investment firm.
CONTRIBUTORS
Barnes & Noble, Inc. is the world's largest bookseller. Barnes & Noble conducts its online business through Barnes & Noble.com, which features more than two million titles in its eBookstore. Through Barnes & Noble's NOOK eReading product offering, customers can buy and read eBooks on the widest range of platforms, including NOOK eBook Readers.
Harlequin is the global leader in series romance and one of the world's leading publishers of books for women, with titles issued worldwide in 32 languages and sold in 115 international markets. The company produces over 110 titles monthly and publishes more than 1,100 authors from around the world. Harlequin has offices in 19 countries, including offices in Toronto, New York and London. For more information please visit www.eHarlequin.com or press.eHarlequin.com.
HarperCollins is a broad-based publisher with strengths in literary and commercial fiction, nonfiction and children's books. Consistently at the forefront of innovation, HarperCollins is the first publisher to digitize its content and create a global digital warehouse to protect the rights of its authors, and meet growing consumer demand.
Levy Home Entertainment is the nation's premier distributor of paperback and hardcover books to America's finest retailers. Known in the industry as LHE or Levy, they are recognized as an innovator with unmatched ability to service mass merchants, warehouse clubs and drug/grocery accounts.
FRIENDS
Pearson is an international media company with world-leading businesses in education, business information and consumer publishing. Pearson helps children and adults to learn, business people to make good decisions and readers to wise up or wind down with a good book.
Publishing Technology plc's brands include IngentaConnect, advance, pub2web, VISTA, author2reader, ICS and PCG. The group enables publishers to focus on their core competences by providing a single partner for both technology requirements and business development services. The group's proposition uniquely provides the industry's only end-to-end suite of software specifically designed to support the publishing process.
Volume One Sponsors (2010)
CHAMPION
Baker & Taylor, Inc. is a global information and entertainment services company that offers print and digital books and entertainment products along with value-added services to libraries, educational institutions and retailers. Based in Charlotte, N.C., the company has been in existence for more than 180 years, developing long-term relationships with major suppliers, including book publishers, movie studios and music labels. Baker & Taylor maintains one of the largest combined in-stock book, video and music inventories in the United States, and services the broadest customer base in the industry. Baker & Taylor is majority owned by Castle Harlan Partners IV, L.P., a leading private equity investment firm.
SUPPORTERS
Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a leading US trade publisher headquartered in New York and owned by Hachette Livre, the second largest publisher in the world. In one year, HBG publishes approximately 450 adult books, 150 young adult and children's books, and 60 audio book titles across five major publishers: Little, Brown and Company, Little Brown and Company for Young Readers, Grand Central Publishing, Orbit, Yen Press, FaithWords, Center Street and Hachette Audio. In 2008, the company had a record 107 books on the New York Times bestseller list, with 35 of them ranked #1.
Sony Electonics Inc. is a leading provider of audio/video electronics and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Operations include research and development, design, engineering, manufacturing, sales, marketing, distribution and customer service. Reader is Sony's family of portable reading devices for E-Books. Its high-resolution electronic paper display delivers a realistic print look that rivals traditional paper and uses minimal power. The Reader provides access to books from many places, including The Reader Store from Sony, books from public libraries and more than one million free public domain titles from Google Books.
CONTRIBUTORS
Barnes & Noble. Description to come.
HarperCollins is a broad-based publisher with strengths in literary and commercial fiction, nonfiction and children's books. Consistently at the forefront of innovation, HarperCollins is the first publisher to digitize its content and create a global digital warehouse to protect the rights of its authors, and meet growing consumer demand.
Founded in 1967, OCLC is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing library costs. More than 72,000 libraries in over 150 countries have used OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend, preserve and manage library materials. OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the world's largest online database for discovery of library resources.
Random House, Inc.
FRIENDS
CERLALC directs its efforts towards the protection of intellectual creation, book production and distribution and the promotion of reading and writing in Latin America. CERLALC assists its member countries in formulation and application of public policies, generates knowledge, divulges specialized information and statistics, stimulates educational processes and promotes spaces of agreement between governments and private book sectors in 21 Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries.
iPublishCentral, a flagship product of Impelsys Inc. is a one-stop self-serve infrastructure solution that enables publishers through a Software as a Service (SaaS) model to market, warehouse, distribute and deliver content online with a pay as-you-go pricing.
iPublishCentral allows publishers to experiment with various pricing models, deliver content in multiple formats for various devices, and generate new revenue streams at minimal risk.
Macmillan is the new face of a company with a rich history in the publishing industry. The adult trade collection comes from a distinctive conglomerate of leading publishing imprints including St. Martin's Press, Henry Holt, Picador, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Macmillan's other primary focuses are on educating the leaders and thinkers of tomorrow with its college and academic titles, and magazines and journals.
Pearson is an international media company with world-leading businesses in education, business information and consumer publishing.
Pearson helps children and adults to learn, business people to make good decisions and readers to wise up or wind down with a good book.
Publishing Technology plc's brands include IngentaConnect, advance, pub2web, VISTA, author2reader, ICS and PCG. The group enables publishers to focus on their core competences by providing a single partner for both technology requirements and business development services. The group's proposition uniquely provides the industry's only end-to-end suite of software specifically designed to support the publishing process.