E-book technology firm ebrary, US, has announced that it is partnering with three book distributors to make its e-books and other digital materials available to academic libraries in Europe and Israel under various subscription and purchase models. The company's new representatives are Massmann Internationale Buchhandlung in northern Germany; Dietmar Dreier Wissenschaftliche Versandbuchhandlung in southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland; and Ziur Information Systems Ltd. in Israel.
Massmann International Booksellers was founded in 1989 by booksellers Dorothea and Kay Massmann in Hamburg and has operated since then as supplier and service provider for university and research libraries in Germany. The company specialises in the worldwide procurement of books, monographic continuation orders, databases and e-books.
Dietmar Dreier is focused on university libraries, research institutions and other scientific libraries. It specialises in the supply of monographic titles and monographic periodicals from all over the world. Dealing with e-content has increased the range of titles Dietmar Dreier supplies.
Ziur Information has been in the information business in Israel since 1978. It is mainly active in information management within organisations and in marketing and distributing academic and scientific information. The information management activities include information work flow within the organisation, archives construction and management, operating a large microfilm and imaging service bureau, and hardware & software supply for these activities. Ziur also distributes in Israel academic and scientific information as per customer preference and need: online databases, journals and books in printed and electronic versions, information on microform and dissertations & theses from around the world.
ebrary seeks to help libraries, publishers and other organisations disseminate information to end-users, while improving end-user research and document interaction. The company has developed a flexible e-content platform, which customers may use in a number of different, integrated capacities.
