E-book technology firm ebrary, US, has announced a strategic partnership with Versita, a leading STM e-publisher and e-publishing technology marketer in Central and Eastern Europe. This partnership will make e-books from leading academic and professional publishers in Central and Eastern Europe available to libraries and other markets worldwide.
Under the deal, Versita will aggregate English language e-books published by Central and Eastern European publishers and offer them to ebrary for distribution, under both subscription and purchase models. ebrary's global customer base includes thousands of libraries and other organisations, serving more than 12.5 million end-users.
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. It currently offers a growing selection of more than 170,000 e-books and other titles from more than 290 publishers and aggregators.
