InfoTech: Ingram Digital in Ebook Deal with Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers

Michael Rogers -- Library Journal, 03/04/2008

• Will establish cooperative eBook service
• ALPSP members are invited to contribute titles
• ALPSP members gain access to CoreSource and more

Ingram Digital and the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) are partnering “to establish a new co-operative eBook service for its publisher members (numbering over 260 organizations), to enable them to offer eBooks to the academic community.” Ingram will initiate the partnership with the creation of an “ALPSP eBook Collection (AeBC) program utilizing its MyiLibrary platform.”

The company said ALPSP members are invited “to contribute titles to an ALPSP-branded range of subject-based eBook collections which will be offered to libraries and other institutions” through its MyiLibrary content distribution partners including Swets. ALPSP members have access to all of Ingram Digital’s digital content solutions, like CoreSource for digital asset management, and member publishers can use Lightning Source Inc. to produce print-on-demand titles as well as enable digital content distribution to all markets and channels.