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    December 5th, 2008LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    LA VERGNE, TN – Ingram DigitalSM today announced that it now offers over 175,000 titles on its MyiLibrary aggregated e-book and e-content solution. Combined with the high quality of content and features that add value for academic, corporate and public libraries worldwide, crossing this threshold confirms MyiLibrary as the market leading e-content aggregation platform.

    MyiLibrary already offers more front-list content than any other institutional e-book aggregator. In addition, MyiLibrary continues to add e-books each month, offering the widest choice of newly available e-books. Library patrons can take advantage of MyiLibrary’s seamless integration with bibliographic management software RefWorks or Endnote, while MyiLibrary remains the only aggregator to provide institutions COUNTER compliant usage statistics.

    “MyiLibrary offers the must-have features institutions and publishers are looking for,” explains Rich Rosy, VP and GM of Ingram Digital’s Institutional Solutions Unit. “More and more publishers recognize that digital content marks the clearest path to continued success and profitability in today’s market. MyiLibrary’s flexible authentication, comprehensive search and retrieval capabilities, plus the ability for individual users to annotate and store searches, are features that appeal to academics, researchers, professionals and students worldwide.’’

    Because of the company’s heritage in the book industry, Ingram Digital understands that providing the widest range of titles and best value for institutional customers also means providing the best value to its publishing partners.

    Hundreds of leading publishers worldwide choose MyiLibrary for its flexible pricing models and global distribution networks, which continue to result in increased market exposure and revenue opportunities as the e-book market continues to grow. Publishers offering content on MyiLibrary include Ashgate Publishing, Bloomsbury, Dorling Kindersley, Edward Elgar, Elsevier, Kluwer Academic Publishers, McGraw Hill, Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Pearson Education, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Wiley and Wolters Kluwer.

    ABOUT INGRAM DIGITAL
    Ingram Digital is an Ingram content company. The Ingram content companies provide a broad range of physical and digital services to the book industry, and immediate access to the largest selection of books and book-related products in the industry. The content companies are Ingram Digital, Lightning Source Inc., Ingram Book Company, Ingram International Inc., Ingram Library Services Inc., Coutts Information Services, Ingram Periodicals Inc., Ingram Publisher Services Inc., Spring Arbor Distributors Inc., and Tennessee Book Company LLC. For more information about Ingram Digital, visit the website www.ingramdigital.com

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