H.W. Wilson Works with NetLibrary to Distribute Titles as eBooks
NEW YORK – July 7, 2000 – Through an agreement with NetLibrary
Inc., a leading provider of eBooks and Internet-based content
management services, select Wilson reference works soon will be
available as eBooks, H.W. Wilson has announced.
NetLibrary provides libraries and their patrons access to
academic, reference, scholarly, professional and trade eBooks
that can be viewed, searched, and checked out via the Internet.
The company distributes content from many leading commercial
publishers and university presses.
Wilson eBooks will include titles from the acclaimed Wilson
Chronologies series, the Facts Series, and Wilson biographical
references.
The first titles available will be Wilson Chronology of Science
and Technology; Wilson Chronology of Women's Achievements;
Wilson Chronology of Ideas; HIV/AIDS Information for Children;
World Film Directors Volume 1; World Film Directors Volume 2;
Nobel Prize Winners Supplement 1992-1996; and American
Reformers.
Upcoming titles are expected to include American Book of Days,
Fourth Edition; Famous First Facts About American Politics;
Famous First Facts About Sports; Facts About American
Immigration; Facts About the Congress; Facts About the States;
Facts About the Supreme Court of the United States; Wilson
Calendar of World History; Wilson Chronology of the World's
Religions; Wilson Chronology of Asia and the Pacific; and Wilson
Chronology of Human Rights. Others are planned.
"Distribution of Wilson references via as convenient a medium
as NetLibrary makes access to our information more democratic,"
said Deborah Loeding, Wilson Vice President, Sales & Marketing.
"This represents the kind of opportunity to reach people that we
all hope and expect of the Web."
"We expect eBook versions of Wilson's reference titles to be
popular among our many academic, K-12, and public library
customers," said NetLibrary Senior Director of Acquisitions
Michael Bills. "We look forward to working with Wilson to put
increasing numbers of their books into our multiple distribution
channels."
The H.W. Wilson Company offers full text, abstracts, and
index databases over the Internet, on CD-ROM and magnetic
tape, as well as in print, along with a wide range of reference
monographs. Serving librarians and researchers for more than
100 years, the Company is renowned for such quality resources
as Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, Current Biography®,
Famous First Facts®, Wilson Business Abstracts, and other
popular titles. For more information on The H.W. Wilson
Company, visit www.hwwilson.com.
NetLibrary
is a leading provider of eBooks and Internet-based content/collection
management services. Having reached agreements with numerous academic,
reference, scholarly, textbook, and trade publishers, NetLibrary is
building a digital collection of full-text eBooks that consists
currently of tens of thousands of titles. NetLibrary provides
eBooks to academic, corporate, public, and special libraries, and
its eBook infrastructure facilitates the sale and secure
distribution of eBooks through a variety of channels.
Contact:
Roseward Sky
(800) 367-6770, x2272
rsky@hwwilson.com
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