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Ingram News and Events |
Ingram Digital Group chooses Swets for customer access to eBooks |
| 9/5/2007 NASHVILLE, TN – MyiLibrary Ltd., a leading global provider of digital content and part of Ingram Digital Group, and Swets, a leading worldwide subscription services company, announced today an agreement that will revolutionize the way customers browse, acquire and access electronic journals and eBooks. “We’ve long admired Swets for its presence as a market leader and we’re pleased to announce this alliance with them,” said James Gray, President and CEO of Ingram Digital Group, the parent company of MyiLibrary. “Working together, utilizing the capabilities and features of MyiLibrary and Swets, we can provide Swets’ global customer base with the best in electronic journal and eBook solutions.” MyiLibrary is partnering with Swets to enable customers to access eBooks and electronic journals from one easy-to-use and efficient point of access. MyiLibrary provides access to more than 70,000 eBooks, with content coming from over 300 of the industry’s leading publishers. As a result, it is an indispensable reference tool for all businesses and institutions looking to provide their users with access to the most current and topical eBooks available today. SwetsWise Subscriptions, the core focus of Swets’ innovative SwetsWise portfolio, is one of the most comprehensive and sophisticated services for the management and procurement of journals. Combining the functionality of MyiLibrary with SwetsWise Subscriptions will create a powerful platform that enables organizations to manage both their journal subscriptions and eBooks from a single interface. “Books and journals have traditionally been regarded as different markets, but things are evolving,” said Arie Jongejan, CEO of Swets. “We are delighted to announce this agreement, because partnering SwetsWise with MyiLibrary is a perfect marriage. For our customers, content is king, no matter what the format. So being able to provide them with a single point of access from which to manage both journals and eBooks is the most logical step and we are eager to develop this partnership further.” The first offering of combined services between MyiLibrary and Swets is expected to launch in September of this year. ABOUT MYILIBRARYMyiLibrary Ltd., an Ingram Digital Group company, is a global provider of digital content accession, storage, management and delivery services to publishers and other content owners. MyiLibrary specializes in the production of world-class technology solutions for the distribution and hosting of electronic books, journals and other content. MyiLibrary provides eBook titles from academic, commercial, and governmental publishers throughout the world. For more information, visit www.myilibrary.com ABOUT INGRAM DIGITAL GROUP Ingram Digital Group is an operating division of Ingram Industries Inc. and provides publishers and other content owners with a comprehensive offering of digital content accession, storage, management and distribution services. Ingram Digital Group along with its group companies MyiLibrary and VitalSource Technologies provides a full-service array of digital solutions and support. The Ingram companies - Ingram Digital Group, Ingram Book Group and Lightning Source Inc. - provide a broad range of physical and digital services to the industry. For more information, visit www.ingramdigital.com ABOUT SWETSWISE Swets launched the all-new and fully integrated SwetsWise portfolio earlier this year. SwetsWise Subscriptions is its core component, and the most comprehensive and sophisticated subscriptions management and procurement service currently available. It places your organization’s entire collection at your fingertips, streamlining the way you acquire, access and manage thousands of journals. SwetsWise Subscriptions provides a single platform from which you can control your subscriptions investment, improve the management of your electronic journal licenses, and reduce the amount of time and effort needed to manage your subscriptions. ABOUT SWETS Swets is the world's leading subscription services company. We build on more than 100 years of experience to maximize the return on investments in time and money for clients and publishers in today's complex information marketplace. With clients in over 160 countries and more than twenty offices around the world, Swets is a true “long tail” powerhouse that provides the most comprehensive and sophisticated e-commerce platform currently available in its field. Swets has been included in E-Content Magazine's “100 companies that matter most in the Digital Content Industry” for the past two years, and appeared at number 95 in FEM Business' “Top 500 Companies in The Netherlands” in 2006. We are the only subscription services company that is ISO 9001:2000 certified on a global basis--a testament to our stringent operation and client service procedures. Visit us today at www.swets.com |
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