E-book technology firm ebrary, US, has announced that Informa Healthcare, a division of Informa PLC, has licensed its platform to sell and market Informa's growing selection of e-books online. With a portfolio that includes more than 250 new pharmaceutical science and clinical medicine books and other materials published each year, Informa Healthcare is focused on the life sciences and medical publishing markets.
With ebrary's technology, the company expects to significantly grow its e-book business while increasing usage and customer satisfaction. The ebrary platform not only makes it easy to submit e-books in industry standard PDF, it also offers flexible options for selling individual e-books and packages of e-books under both single- and multi-user access models.
Key features and benefits of the ebrary platform for publishers include flexible e-commerce options; 'Browse-before-buy' capabilities; integration with multiple online resources; easy PDF submission; full text searching and indexing; personal bookshelves; highlighting and annotating; multiple search options; copying and printing with an automatic citation and URL hyperlink back to the source; and reporting tools and usage statistics.
Informa Healthcare caters to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical devices, diagnostics, instrumentation, crop protection and animal health industries. It provides a wide range of news services, magazines, R&D databases, books, research journals, mailing lists, contact directories and business reports.
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