Transaction Publishers Joins the Espresso Book Machine Network
Transaction Publishers, a major independent publisher of social science books, makes more than 1,400 of its titles available via the Espresso Book Machine’s “digital-to-print at retail (DPR)” sales channel.
Piscataway, NJ, July 13, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Transaction Publishers, a major independent publisher of social science books, has signed the Lightning Source Espresso Addendum, making more than 1,400 of its titles available via the Espresso Book Machine’s “digital-to-
print at retail (DPR)” sales channel.
“Transaction is pleased that such a large number of our new and backlist titles will now be available from The Espresso Book Machine,” says Mary Curtis, President of Transaction Publishers. “The idea that our print books will be instantly available to readers anywhere in the world adds an exciting new dimension to our publishing program, and will be welcomed by authors and readers alike.”
“With Espresso Book Machines available in universities, libraries, and independent bookstores, we offer academic publishers a unique sales channel and opportunity to keep their entire list ‘in print.’ We are delighted that Transaction Publishers is the latest quality, academic publisher to join our growing network,” says Dane Neller, CEO of On Demand Books.
The EBM is the only digital-to-print at-retail solution on the market today. With the push of a button, a title can be printed with a full-color cover, bound, and trimmed to any standard size. In a matter of minutes, it emerges from the EBM as a bookstore-quality paperback book, which the customer can pay for and walk out the store with right there and then.
Content from publishers, now including Red Wheel/Weiser, is fed to the EBM via EspressNet, On Demand Books’ growing digital network of titles (currently numbering over seven million). Much like an iTunes for books, EspressNet retrieves, encrypts, transmits, and catalogues books from a multitude of English and foreign language content providers, including public domain, in-copyright, and self-published titles. Through the SelfServe software, writers can format, design, edit, and upload their books for printing through the EBM, and for inclusion in EspressNet. SelfServe will soon also be able to convert print files to the ePub format suitable for e-readers.
The EBM provides a new sales channel for publishers, and vastly increases the availability of titles for physical bookstores, significantly reducing loss of sales due to books being out-of-stock. In addition, the EBM technology offers libraries and bricks-and-mortar retailers the opportunity to become community self-publishing centers, providing a new distribution platform for self-published authors. And of course the EBM improves overall efficiency and environmental sustainability by eliminating shipping and the return and pulping of unwanted books.
About On Demand Books:
On Demand Books was co-founded in 2003 by Jason Epstein, former Editorial Director of Random House; Dane Neller, former CEO of Dean & DeLuca; and Thor Sigvaldason, former technology consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Espresso Book Machines have been placed in bookstores, libraries, universities, and other locations in the USA, Canada, the UK, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and the Caribbean. In September 2010, On Demand Books and Xerox announced a partnership whereby Xerox will market, sell or lease and service the Espresso Book Machine worldwide. Made in the USA, Espresso Book Machines are environmentally efficient, reducing production, shipping, and waste. For more information, go to http://www.ondemandbooks.com.
About Transaction Publishers:
Transaction Publishers, located on the campus of Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, is a major independent publisher of academic books and eBooks in the social sciences and humanities. Transaction publishes new and classic books in established disciplines such as economics, political science, history, sociology, psychology, and anthropology, as well as newer research areas such as urban studies, policy analysis, and criminology. Transaction was founded in 1962 by the respected social scientist Irving Louis Horowitz.
Media Contacts:
Aileen Bryant Allen, Transaction Publishers, 732-445-2280, x117, abryant-allen@transactionpub.com
Erin Hardy, On Demand Books, 212-966-2222, erin@ondemandbooks.com
Espresso Book Machine® and EspressNet® are trademarks of On Demand Books in the United States and/or other countries.
This press release is also available on the Transaction website at: http://www.transactionpub.com/merchant2/merchant.mvc?Scre...
print at retail (DPR)” sales channel.
“Transaction is pleased that such a large number of our new and backlist titles will now be available from The Espresso Book Machine,” says Mary Curtis, President of Transaction Publishers. “The idea that our print books will be instantly available to readers anywhere in the world adds an exciting new dimension to our publishing program, and will be welcomed by authors and readers alike.”
“With Espresso Book Machines available in universities, libraries, and independent bookstores, we offer academic publishers a unique sales channel and opportunity to keep their entire list ‘in print.’ We are delighted that Transaction Publishers is the latest quality, academic publisher to join our growing network,” says Dane Neller, CEO of On Demand Books.
The EBM is the only digital-to-print at-retail solution on the market today. With the push of a button, a title can be printed with a full-color cover, bound, and trimmed to any standard size. In a matter of minutes, it emerges from the EBM as a bookstore-quality paperback book, which the customer can pay for and walk out the store with right there and then.
Content from publishers, now including Red Wheel/Weiser, is fed to the EBM via EspressNet, On Demand Books’ growing digital network of titles (currently numbering over seven million). Much like an iTunes for books, EspressNet retrieves, encrypts, transmits, and catalogues books from a multitude of English and foreign language content providers, including public domain, in-copyright, and self-published titles. Through the SelfServe software, writers can format, design, edit, and upload their books for printing through the EBM, and for inclusion in EspressNet. SelfServe will soon also be able to convert print files to the ePub format suitable for e-readers.
The EBM provides a new sales channel for publishers, and vastly increases the availability of titles for physical bookstores, significantly reducing loss of sales due to books being out-of-stock. In addition, the EBM technology offers libraries and bricks-and-mortar retailers the opportunity to become community self-publishing centers, providing a new distribution platform for self-published authors. And of course the EBM improves overall efficiency and environmental sustainability by eliminating shipping and the return and pulping of unwanted books.
About On Demand Books:
On Demand Books was co-founded in 2003 by Jason Epstein, former Editorial Director of Random House; Dane Neller, former CEO of Dean & DeLuca; and Thor Sigvaldason, former technology consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Espresso Book Machines have been placed in bookstores, libraries, universities, and other locations in the USA, Canada, the UK, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and the Caribbean. In September 2010, On Demand Books and Xerox announced a partnership whereby Xerox will market, sell or lease and service the Espresso Book Machine worldwide. Made in the USA, Espresso Book Machines are environmentally efficient, reducing production, shipping, and waste. For more information, go to http://www.ondemandbooks.com.
About Transaction Publishers:
Transaction Publishers, located on the campus of Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, is a major independent publisher of academic books and eBooks in the social sciences and humanities. Transaction publishes new and classic books in established disciplines such as economics, political science, history, sociology, psychology, and anthropology, as well as newer research areas such as urban studies, policy analysis, and criminology. Transaction was founded in 1962 by the respected social scientist Irving Louis Horowitz.
Media Contacts:
Aileen Bryant Allen, Transaction Publishers, 732-445-2280, x117, abryant-allen@transactionpub.com
Erin Hardy, On Demand Books, 212-966-2222, erin@ondemandbooks.com
Espresso Book Machine® and EspressNet® are trademarks of On Demand Books in the United States and/or other countries.
This press release is also available on the Transaction website at: http://www.transactionpub.com/merchant2/merchant.mvc?Scre...
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Aileen Bryant-Allen
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On Demand Books:
Erin Hardy
212-966-2222
erin@ondemandbooks.com
Aileen Bryant-Allen
732-445-2280
www.transactionpub.com
On Demand Books:
Erin Hardy
212-966-2222
erin@ondemandbooks.com
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