Ingram Content Group, a US-based distributor of books, music and media content, has announced that publisher Thames & Hudson, UK, has selected the former's digital asset management platform CoreSource to launch its e-book programme.
As new business models and technologies emerge that allow for a wider variety of books to have e-book versions, more publishers like Thames & Hudson are integrating CoreSource into their distribution strategy to free-up time and resources for content creation, according to Ingram.
Thames & Hudson publishes about 180 new titles each year, and has a current backlist of over 2,000 titles. The publisher specialises in illustrated books in the arts, archaeology and history, architecture, design, photography, travel, fashion, children's and popular culture, and a variety of other visual interest areas. One of its best-known publishing ventures is the World of Art series, in which more than 200 titles have been published over the past 50 years. Thames & Hudson's digital programme will seek to draw on its extensive knowledge of print and digital design to ensure that each of the subject areas it produces in digital form makes the most of the platforms on offer and is tailored to its international readership.
The company will begin distributing front list e-book titles through Ingram's CoreSource platform beginning in early 2013. It will add its backlist titles to the platform in stages.
Ingram's CoreSource platform is projected as an easy-to-use, online solution for the storage, management and distribution of digital content. It is said to provide a secure, searchable content repository and delivery system connected to the largest available network of retailers, library suppliers and other e-book providers. This is seen to allow publishers to move digital content easily and swiftly from their organisation to any channel partner globally.
