E-book technology firm ebrary, US, has announced that US-based Perseus Books Group will make thousands of digital titles available on the ebrary platform to libraries worldwide through Perseus' new innovative Constellation service. Perseus Books is a leading provider of sales, marketing, distribution, and digital services to independent publishers.
Available under subscription and perpetual access models, the new selection will span a variety of academic subject areas and feature titles from publishers such as Basic Books, Basic Civitas, Da Capo Press, Westview Press, and Public Affairs. Titles from participating client publishers that are distributed representing Perseus Distribution, Consortium Book Sales, and Publisher's Group West will also be featured.
ebrary seeks to help libraries, publishers and other organisations disseminate information to end users, while improving end user research and document interaction. In a recent announcement, the company joined forces with health science information provider Matthews Book Company to distribute e-books and other authoritative content in medicine and allied health to libraries and other organisations across the globe. ebrary has secured partnerships with more than 300 of the world's leading publishers of scholarly, STM, trade, and reference content.
