ebrary Launches Content Hosting Plus

ebrary, a leading provider of digital content products and technologies, today announced the availability of Content Hosting Plus, a new product that combines pre-packaged, full-text e-books in academic subject areas with ebrary's hosting services. In most cases the inclusive e-books from leading publishers, which contain hundreds of titles each, are valued at more than the cost of ebrary's hosting services.

"Content Hosting Plus offers a tremendous opportunity for libraries to easily and efficiently create digital repositories and enhance them with relevant and authoritative content provided by ebrary," said Christopher Warnock, CEO of ebrary. "For example, a library that has digitized a local history collection and would like to make documents more discoverable and usable can use Content Hosting Plus and include a rich collection of U.S. history titles and maps. For the first time, libraries can gain instant value."

With Content Hosting Plus, customers simply send ebrary their PDF files and ebrary does the rest. In most cases, customers' sites can be up and running in days, hassle free.

Additional features and benefits:

• Pre-packaged e-books contain hundreds of titles in U.S. History, business, and other academic subject areas.
• Solve problems associated with cumbersome PDF files - Content Hosting Plus transforms PDF files into highly interactive databases with powerful technology for information discovery including InfoTools .
• No need to hire additional staff.
• Capable of processing thousands of documents a day.
• Seamless integration with content acquired from ebrary.
• Built-in DRM.
• Easy PDF submission.
• Simple meta-tagging.
• InfoTools software for integration with other resources.
• 24/7 access from any computer.
• Comprehensive statistics - quantify user behavior.
• Choice of ebrary Readers.
• Available in multiple languages.
• Powerful end-user features for enhancing information retrieval, discovery, and management.

Libraries interested in requesting a trial or more information can email sales@ebrary.com.

About ebrary (www.ebrary.com)

ebrary helps libraries, corporations, publishers, and consumers get the most out of their digital content. The company offers a growing selection of more than 170,000 digital books, handbooks, reports, maps, journals and other valuable content from over 350 of the world's leading publishers under flexible subscription, purchase, and usage-based models. Additionally, ebrary offers e-publishing services for customers to cost-effectively distribute their own PDF content online on ebrary's servers or their own.

All ebrary products and services can be integrated and delivered via a single easy-to-use interface that includes powerful tools for finding, discovering, and managing information. With ebrary InfoTools , every word in the ebrary system is a network to other online resources of the customers' choice, extending their value while increasing end-user knowledge and efficiencies.

Founded in 1999, ebrary is privately held and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, USA.

Wagner Communications
Tish Wagner, +1-707-963-8935
tish.wagner@ebrary.com