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Subject:
PRESS RELEASE: The Publishing Houses Dr. Otto Schmidt and
Böhlau choose De Gruyter as Sales Partner for Electronic
Content |
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From:
<Ulrike.Lippe@degruyter.com> |
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Date:
5/22/2012 7:09 AM |
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To:
<serialst@list.uvm.edu> |
PRESS RELEASE
The Publishing Houses Dr. Otto Schmidt and Böhlau
choose De Gruyter as Sales Partner for Electronic Content
Publication of eJournals and eBooks to Begin in
2013
Berlin, 22 May 2012 – Beginning in 2013, the legal
publisher Dr. Otto Schmidt and the publishing house Böhlau will
work exclusively with De Gruyter for the electronic distribution
of their books and journals. De Gruyter will sell the content of
both publishing houses through its integrated online platform as
well as via retailers to libraries and end customers.
"We were compelled by De Gruyter's expertise in the
area of electronic publishing," Prof. Felix Hey, the managing
partner of Dr. Otto Schmidt, said regarding the decision.
"Beginning in 2013, we will offer eight journals and some 260
eBooks through the joint online platform. This will be the first
time these publications will be offered electronically outside
of databases."
Böhlau, which publishes in the fields of history,
law, linguistics, social sciences, and literary studies, will
also offer its publications digitally through De Gruyter
beginning in 2013. "As part of this partnership, we will
initially offer ten periodicals, including the journal Zeitschrift
der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte [Journal of
the Savigny Foundation for Legal History], which enjoys a rich
history, as well as approximately 270 books," Johannes Rauch,
the CEO of Böhlau, said.
"Through these cooperative relationships with Dr.
Otto Schmidt and Böhlau we'll be expanding our portfolio with
high quality publications that will augment our profile as a
provider of content to libraries," Katrin Siems, the Vice
President Sales & Marketing of De Gruyter said. "Of course,
we will continue to pursue our policy of emphasizing quality
instead of quantity, and of offering our customers a high degree
of flexibility."
The new journals have already been integrated in
the current price lists that will be sent out shortly to
customers and trade partners. The eBooks will be part of De
Gruyter's subject-area sales packages; more information in this
regard will be released in the spring of 2013.
Contact
Felix Evert
Publisher Partnership Manager
Tel. +49 (0)30-260 05 297
De Gruyter: The
independent academic publishing house De Gruyter can look back
on a history spanning over 260 years. The publishing group with
headquarters in Berlin and Boston annually publishes over 800
new titles in the humanities, medicine, science and law and
approx. 500 journals and digital media. http://www.degruyter.com/
Dr. Otto Schmidt is a specialist publisher in the fields law,
business, and tax planning. For over 100 years the publishing
house has been serving experts in the realms of business, law,
and academia. Dr. Otto Schmidt is known for its outstanding
authors, first-class products, and broad portfolio of
publications in various media formats. With over 1,000 available
book titles, some 30 journals, and over 40 loose-leaf
publications, quality and currentness are writ large. Prof.
Felix Hey has been the managing partner of Dr. Otto Schmidt
since 1 July 2010. Additional information – including details
about online and seminar offerings, as well as the publishing
group's shareholdings – can be found at www.otto-schmidt.de.
Böhlau: With
offices in Cologne, Weimar, and Vienna, the publisher Böhlau
is one of the few owner-operated and independent academic
publishing houses with a long tradition and international
renown. Böhlau primarily publishes in the fields of history and
legal history, but also in linguistics and literary studies, art
and cultural history, as well as church history and theology.
New focal areas are also being generated based on current
research in historical anthropology, gender studies, global
history, and the life sciences. As a shareholder of the German
publisher UTB, Böhlau supports the selection of books for
university courses in all of the aforementioned fields.
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Subject:
PRESS RELEASE: The e-dition Project: Over 6,000 Backlist
Titles Digitized Over a Two-Year Period |
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From:
<Ulrike.Lippe@degruyter.com> |
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Date:
5/23/2012 5:12 AM |
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To:
<serialst@list.uvm.edu> |
PRESS RELEASE
The e-dition Project: Over 6,000
Backlist Titles Digitized Over a Two-Year Period
Berlin, 23 May 2012 – In the last two years De
Gruyter has successfully digitized over 6,000 backlist titles
from its collection of books published over the last
two-and-a-half centuries. "Digitalization on Demand" is the
credo of the e-dition project, as books are only digitized
following a specific customer order. In total De Gruyter now
offers some 50,000 titles in digital format – some from 1749,
the year of the publishing house's founding.
"The success of the e-dition project has
significantly exceeded our expectations. We're immensely pleased
that the demand from libraries has been so strong," Katrin
Siems, Vice President of Marketing & Sales, said at the
Librarians' Day conference in Hamburg. The project clearly
shows that publishers can play an important commercial role in
the migration from printed to electronic content. The e-dition
project is still running on cylinders. "Each week we receive
approximately 50 orders for non-digitized titles, and the
majority of digitized books have been ordered more than once."
e-dition publications as well as "Print on Demand"
titles and eBooks are available at De Gruyter's online platform
at www.degruyter.com.
The primary customers of the e-dition project are educational
and research institutions that want to make their collections
more accessible, as well as private customers who want expand
their libraries with titles that are no longer available.
e-dition titles are available from De Gruyter and book
retailers. "Book retailers have played a considerable role in
the success of the e-dition project," Katrin Siems said,
praising the publishing house's collaboration with its retail
partners.
Kontakt
Ulrike Lippe
Manager Public Relations
Telefon 030-260 05 153
De Gruyter: The
independent academic publishing house De Gruyter can look back
on a history spanning over 260 years. The publishing group with
headquarters in Berlin and Boston annually publishes over 800
new titles in the humanities, medicine, science and law and
approx. 500 journals and digital media. www.degruyter.com