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Come and see us at Frankfurt

Come and see us at Frankfurt

Less than 2 months to go to the biggest event in the book publishing calendar – the Frankfurt Book Fair – and we’re busy finalising our preparations for it.

This year we’re part of the IPG stand – A935 in Hall 8 – and alongside us is the Faber Factory. As many of you know, we are powering the direct-to-consumer (D2C) eCommerce packages that the Factory offers to its clients. At the fair, we’ll be running a demo showing how we integrate an enhanced version of our Standard D2C package into a Factory client’s website.

The Faber partnership, set up in the summer shortly after the successful launch of our range of D2C packages for publishers, is just one of many exciting partnerships we’ve set up since Frankfurt 2011. Others include arrangements with:

  • Netherlands-based Icontact for the right to offer their award-winning digital watermarking technology, BooXtream®, in the UK, as well as their Kindle Mobi support technology that enables Kindle users to load their eReaders with digitally watermarked Mobi files using standard Send-to-Kindle functions
  • ePubDirect to enable our publisher clients to distribute their eBooks to more than 85 eRetail outlets and 15,000 libraries on very attractive terms

I’ll be at the Fair from Wednesday 10th to Friday 12th, as will my colleagues Alistair Tripp, Charlie Warburton, Jonathan King and our Technical Development Manager, David Lonsdale. Our partner, Huub van de Pol, Managing Director of Icontact, will also be there.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Darin Brockman, CEO, The Firsty Group

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