STM publisher Springer has announced that it will become the exclusive distributor of the eBook versions of titles published by Wageningen Academic Publishers. The cooperation will begin with the copyright year 2011 and will include about 30 new titles annually.
The electronic versions of the Wageningen Academic Publishers’ titles will become part of the Springer eBook packages, available on www.springerlink.com. The books will continue to be branded as Wageningen Academic Publishers’ titles. Wageningen will be responsible for programme planning and book development and will sell and distribute the print versions of the books.
As part of the Springer eBook collection, Wageningen Academic Publishers’ titles join the largest online collection of STM publications consisting of monographs, textbooks, handbooks, atlases, reference works and book series. The Springer eBook packages, grouped into twelve subject collections, include more than 40,000 titles.
Wageningen Academic Publishers is a publishing company in the field of life sciences, operating out of the Netherlands. The publishing programme focuses on animal and veterinary sciences, food sciences, social sciences, environmental sciences and plant sciences. The company publishes scientific journals as well as monographs, textbooks and proceedings.
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