Dial-A-Book,
which through its Chapter One program provides browsing excerpts from
more than 100,000 books to online booksellers, wholesalers, search
engines and others, has launched Publishers Portal, an excerpt distribution service designed, in cooperation with PMA, for independent publishers.
The Publishers Portal program initially makes available book excerpts only from PMA's 4,500 publisher members. Already companies that are mounting all Publishers Portal excerpts on their Web sites--so long as they handle the book--are Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Books-in-Print Online, EBSCO, Buy.com, OCLC First Search, Syndetics, among others.
In addition, the excerpts will be mounted in the online public access catalogues of more than 1,200 public and academic libraries if their collections include the books. The excerpts will be available for mounting on the publishers' sites and for use in promotion and advertising.
The excerpts will also be added to Dial-A-Book's Chapter One database, which includes titles from more than 1,200 publishers and imprints.
The Publishers Portal program initially makes available book excerpts only from PMA's 4,500 publisher members. Already companies that are mounting all Publishers Portal excerpts on their Web sites--so long as they handle the book--are Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Books-in-Print Online, EBSCO, Buy.com, OCLC First Search, Syndetics, among others.
In addition, the excerpts will be mounted in the online public access catalogues of more than 1,200 public and academic libraries if their collections include the books. The excerpts will be available for mounting on the publishers' sites and for use in promotion and advertising.
The excerpts will also be added to Dial-A-Book's Chapter One database, which includes titles from more than 1,200 publishers and imprints.