SwetsWise places eBooks procurement portal into Beta Testing

PRESS RELEASE

Lisse, The Netherlands
19 November 2009


SwetsWise places eBooks procurement portal into Beta Testing

Swets announced earlier today that its newly developed eBooks procurement portal has entered into Beta Testing. The portal integrates a comprehensive eBook catalog and procurement options into existing SwetsWise services, most notably SwetsWise Subscriptions. These features will provide customers with a single source for purchasing eBooks and a means to select the desired access route to their acquired content, be it by publishers directly or through an aggregator.

Swets has seen a steady increase in demand for eBook content over the past couple of years but its customers have raised issues with the complexity of the selection and acquisition processes that are currently available to them. Swets is ideally suited to address these issues, thanks to its expertise in handling subscriptions to electronic content and in particular the complex pricing and access models associated with them.

"Our customers have been clear in asking for a single platform from which they could discover and compare vendors and purchasing options available for eBook content. Our new procurement portal will Satisfy this need, "said Debbie Dore, Chief Commercial Officer at Swets. "Thanks to the full integration with our existing SwetsWise services it also creates a unique environment where librarians, information professionals, students and researchers can browse, acquire, access, manage and evaluate all of their purchased content, irrespective or published format."

SwetsWise Subscriptions has already established itself as the most comprehensive service available subscriptions management and procurement, playing an essential role in the cost reduction efforts of thousands of libraries and information centers around the globe. It facilitates the essential interaction with publishers needed to Ensure the timely delivery of subscriptions in the format information users and knowledge workers require. Expanding SwetsWise's scope to include eBooks enables customers to retain their acquired unprecedented control over all content and provides them with a unique and attractive alternative to traditional book suppliers and other agencies.

The Beta Testing period for SwetsWise's eBooks portal is expected to run until early February 2010.


About Swets
Swets is the world's leading subscription services company. We build on more than 105 years of experience to maximize the return on investments in time and money for clients and publishers in today's complex information marketplace. With clients in over 160 countries and more than twenty offices around the world, Swets is a true "long tail" powerhouse that provides the most comprehensive and sophisticated e-commerce platform currently available in its field.

Swets has been included in E-Content Magazine's "100 Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry "for the past five years, and is consistently featured in the top 25% of FEM Business' "Top 500 Companies in The Netherlands". We are
the only subscription services company that is ISO 9001:2008 certified on a global basis for 10 years running - a testament to our stringent operation and client service procedures.

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