BOOK: The Sequel

Participants

• Constellation is a set of digital services intended to enable Client publishers to participate widely in the emerging digital landscape at a cost balanced with the revenue potential of those digital opportunities. It currently includes digital print services—both short print run (SPR) and print on demand (POD)—online content sampling services, e-Book sales and distribution, and a number of online marketing tools.
   
• The PBG and PGW Online Marketing Toolkit contains various online tools that are designed to provide marketing solutions that will enhance the promotional efforts on behalf of our publishers’ authors and titles.
   
• Audible.com is the leading provider of premium digital spoken audio information and entertainment on the Internet. Audible.com specializes in the spoken experience, providing digital audio editions of books, newspapers and magazines, original programming, and TV and radio subscriptions.
   
• The Book Report Network is a group of eight Internet sites featuring original content about books and authors. Since 1996, these sites—led by flagship site Bookreporter.com—have become the gathering places for a large and devoted audience of readers and book buyers.
   
• Caravan is a group of book people on a journey to make serious non-fiction available to discerning readers when they want it, where they want it and in the formats they prefer.
   
• Corbis is a leading visual media provider for advertising, marketing and media professionals, providing a comprehensive selection of photography and illustration. Corbis’ award-winning creative, documentary, archival, fine art, current events and entertainment imagery helps the creative community produce distinctive advertising and publishing for the Internet, magazines, newspapers, books, television and films.
   
• DailyLit sends books in installments via e-mail or RSS feed. DailyLit currently offers over 1000 classic and contemporary books available entirely for free or on a Pay-Per-Read basis.
   
• The eBook Store from Sony has tens of thousands of eBooks; you can purchase and download your favorite titles to read on your PC or transfer to your Sony Digital Reader to be read anytime, anywhere.
   
• Edwards Brothers is a complete book and journal manufacturer, specializing in short and medium runs for publishers, authors, scholarly societies, industrial firms, colleges, universities, and other customers.
   
• eMusic is the Internet’s corner music store. It offers a deeper, more personal alternative to mass market digital music retailers—at better prices—by combining the best of ecommerce, community and editorial content to create a more immersive, authentic music experience.
   
• Expanded Books uses the power of the Internet and video to reach millions of potential book buyers, attract new readers, and boost book sales.
   
• Ingram Digital is the leading digital content distributor and supplier of content management, distribution and hosting solutions for publishers, retailers, libraries and institutions worldwide.
   
• Lightning Source has taken the amazing technology of print on demand and refined it into something more. It’s finely tuned print and distribution model revolutionizes your business with extraordinarily integrated, highly individualized and flawlessly orchestrated execution.
   
• North Plains is the world’s leading provider of rich media & digital asset management solutions. Built on its award-winning TeleScope™ platform, North Plains’ suite of products is designed to meet the diverse rich media needs of small to mid-size businesses and design studios to the complex business requirements of global enterprises.
   
• OverDrive provides world-class infrastructure for distributing premium digital content. OverDrive empowers publishers, enterprises, libraries, schools, and retailers to maximize their presences in the digital world by enabling them to securely manage, protect, and lend or sell digital audiobooks, eBooks, music, and videos.
   
• ReadHowYouWant offers books in a wide range of large-type formats, e-books and formats for people who require different formats like Braille and DAISY.
   
• Reading Group Choices selects discussible books and suggests discussion topics for reading groups. The company produces a printed guide annually that is distributed nationally to libraries, reading groups, book stores, community book festivals, and individuals. Its popular website offers interesting, informative, fun, and interactive material of interest to book clubs.
   
• SharedBook’s Custom Publishing platform allows customized and personalized books to be created dynamically and then displayed as flipbooks on the Web, downloaded as PDFs, or professionally printed. SharedBook specializes in integrating and publishing data from various sources through its own proprietary creation tools, which dramatically change the economics of book publishing.
   
• University Press Audiobooks, LLC is a newly formed Ann Arbor, Michigan-based company for the reproduction of scholarly works on audio. With the popularity of portable audio players and the simplicity of purchasing audiobooks online, books of a scholarly nature will now be more accessible to a general audience.
   
• Verso Reader Channels, designed exclusively for the book industry, are niche vertical networks that offer publishers a targeted, measurable, and cost-efficient platform for reaching over 110 million book consumers online.