ebrary Announces ebrarian

The growth of digital publishing

May 23 2001

ebrary, which develops software and services for the secure online access and delivery of authoritative copyrighted content, recently announced ebrarian, software to securely distribute their own content to target markets.

ebrarian is designed for ebrarary's channel partners, who are primarily publishers, Internet portals, academic institutions, libraries and e-learning companies. ebrarian provides ebrary's channel partners with high-value, focused content which in turn, makes their Web site more valuable to users and advertisers.

Christopher Warnock, CEO of ebrary had to say the following, "Our business model always went beyond just providing a destination site. We haven't talked about our channel strategy before because we wanted to time this announcement with the availability of the ebrarian solution" ... "By making our online collection of valuable books, journals, periodicals and more available via channel partners, search engines, and links -- in addition to ebrary.com -- we will quickly and efficiently achieve our goal of providing the most comprehensive, secure solution for delivering authoritative information on the Internet. Our strategy benefits ebrary, our publishing and channel partners and anyone who needs to conduct research on the Internet."

"ebrary's strategy is very timely. It promises to make content acquisition easy and affordable for online users and profitable for content providers," said Yegin Chen, Director and Senior Analyst at Eduventures.com. "ebrary's software could become the engine that helps fuel the growth of digital publishing, including textbooks, course packs, libraries, ebooks, online news providers and other content-based services".

With its partners including Random House, Pearson plc and McGraw-Hill, ebrarian is strongly supported by some of the largest publishers. A major feature of ebrarian is that users can interact with documents without pre-paying or subscribing. Users can view for free, but in order to copy or print a document they must pay. ebrary documents are delivered and accessed using Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF).

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