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COMMUNITY NEWS
Strang Book Group Selects Firebrand Technologies for Title Information Distribution
June 10, 2010
Strang Book Group, a Christian publisher and member of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA), has selected ECPA's Title Management Web service to manage and distribute their title information. Through a partnership with the ECPA, Firebrand offers ECPA members Title Management Web, an online solution that allows any size publisher to manage and distribute product information to over 200 trading partners through the Eloquence metadata service.
"This partnership with Firebrand Technologies is demonstrative of our strategic plan to increase market share and continue to foster growth in our book division," said Marcos Perez, vice president of sales, Strang Book Group. "In a fast-changing technological environment, this critical step underscores our commitment to service our key customers and trading partners by providing them with accurate and timely information using the latest software and technology solutions."
Open Road Media Selects Firebrand Services
June 7, 2010
Firebrand Technologies today announced that Open Road Integrated Media, a digital content company that publishes and markets ebooks by creating connections between authors and their audiences, will be using our Eloquence service to manage their title information distribution. Open Road will begin distributing title information to Eloquence trading partners immediately.
Read the press release.Association of American University Presses and Firebrand Technologies Partner to Bring NetGalley to University Presses
The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) announces a new benefit program in partnership with NetGalley.
Read the press release.June 3, 2010
Carina Press and NetGalley Announce Partnership
June 1, 2010
Carina Press, the new digital-first publishing imprint of Harlequin Enterprises Limited, and NetGalley, a website that provides digital galleys and press kits to book reviewers, announced an official partnership today to deliver galleys, promotional materials and other content digitally. Since Carina Press is dedicated to offering their content DRM-free (without Digital Rights Management), their galleys will be readable on any number of mobile devices, including the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch and BlackBerry. Moreover, Carina Press digital galleys carry no expiration date. Carina Press will be uploading ePUB files to NetGalley to provide a superior reading experience.
Dan Lee Joins Firebrand Technologies as Content Chief
May 3, 2010
Firebrand Technologies today announced that Daniel Lee has joined the company as Content Chief and head of Firebrand's new Content Services group. Lee is the former Director of Digital Content Development at Harvard University Press, and prior to that was the Digital Publishing Manager at Yale University Press. Dan is well known in the university press community as an innovator in the digital publishing landscape.
Penguin Group-USA Joins the Firebrand Community
April 15, 2010
Penguin Group-USA, based in Manhattan, launches the Title Management Enterprise project. This exciting new initiative will provide Penguin with a new foundation, based on Firebrands solutions, from which to publish their renowned list of authors and remain a leader in trade publishing for years to come.
Kogan Page USA Launches New Firebrand Built Websites
April 9, 2010
Our good friends Keith and Beatrice Ashfield launch the new Kogan Page USA website based on Firebrand's Ecommerce Solutions. This is a great looking site with a very clean, uncluttered design, beautiful navigation and many new features. Check out this book detail page.
Too Many New NetGalley Clients to List!
April, 2010
We have signed too many new publishers to our NetGalley service this month to even list them here. Instead, we invite you to visit Netgalley to see the growing list!
Wolters Kluwer Health Launches Title Management Enterprise Project
March 15, 2010
Longtime Eloquence client Wolters Kluwer Health aka Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, launches the Title Management Enterprise project to build a new publishing foundation on Firebrand's solutions. Based in Philadelphia, Wolters Kluwer Health has embarked on an ambitious plan to publish works in new and innovative ways. Firebrand is proud to be a part of this initiative, led by EVP and General Manager Susan Driscoll
ECPA, NetGalley Partner to Deliver Web-Based Digital Review Solution to Christian Publishers New Project Simplifies the Review Process with Online, Community-Based, Digital Galley Delivery Service
March 1, 2010
New Project Simplifies the Review Process with Online, Community-Based, Digital Galley Delivery Service
The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association announces its official partnership with NetGalley, a web-based program that provides a robust toolset for publishers to store and deliver digital copies of their galleys to existing contacts as well as the ability to tap into whole new communities of professional readers. The new program allows publishers to cut the costs associated with mailing galleys to traditional reviewers as well as reaching out to communities of readers such as librarians, booksellers, retailers and bloggers.
Baker & Taylor Publishing Group Launches New Firebrand Built Websites
Feb 15, 2010
Title Management Enterpise Customer Baker & Taylor Publishing Group (Formerly Advantage Publishing Group) has launched two new book destination websites based on Firebrand's Ecommerce Solutions with graphic design by our friends at MicroArts. Take a look at these beautiful new Silver Dolphin and Thunder Bay books websites.
Christian Publisher Destiny Image Adopts Eloquence Metadata Solutions
February 12, 2010
While at Gospel Light, Kyle Loffelmacher was instrumental in adopting Firebrand's Eloquence Metadata Solutions. Destiny Image has become Kyle's new home and he simply couldn't go without the Eloquence Metadata service backing up his sales efforts! We welcome Destiny Image to the Firebrand Community!
Above the Treeline and Firebrand Technologies Partner to Provide NetGalley Digital Galleys for Edelweiss Publishers
December 16, 2009
The leading provider of web-based interactive publisher catalogs, Above the Treeline, and the leading provider of digital galleys Firebrand Technologies, are pleased to announce that NetGalley services will be integrated with Edelweiss digital catalogs to allow publishers the option to provide electronic galleys to selected retailers, reviewers, and other professional readers.
Rodale Books adopts NetGalley
August 3, 2009
Rodale Books has announced via Publisher's Weekly that it has adopted Firebrand's NetGalley service to provide online galleys to traditional and new media reviewers for their Fall 2009 line up including 100 Heartbeats, The Whole Green Catalog, The Kind Diet and Cornflakes with John Lennon. Read the Publisher's Weekly article here
Medical and Scientific Publisher Thieme Joins Firebrand
July 25, 2009
For years,thanks to Ophtholmologist Grace Lessing, the Lessing household has had text book and promotional memo pads from Thieme Publishers, and for years we have mispronounced the name. For the record it is pronounced 'tee-má' and we are pleased to welcome them to our community - and thanks for offering the family discount!
Welcome and Bonjour to University of Ottawa Press
July 25, 2009
Publishing both English and French Language books into different markets, University of Ottawa presents unique challenges that the Firebrand team is eager to tackle. University of Ottawa has signed up for our Eloquence Metadata Solutions. Welcome!
Baker & Taylor Publishing Group adopts Ecommerce
July 12, 2009
Title Management Enterpise Customer Baker & Taylor Publishing Group (Formerly Advantage Publishing Group) has adopted Firebrand's Ecommerce Solutions to manage the book destination websites for Silver Dolphin and Thunder Bay books. We look forward to unveiling their new sites in a few months!
McGill-Queens University Press Joins Firebrand Community
July 5, 2009
It is a pleasure to welcome our new friends from Montreal to the Firebrand Community. McGill has signed on for Firebrand's Eloquence Metadata Solutions. After talking with Syndey Bubis in the spring, Fran Toolan and Doug Lessing had a nice visit with Susan McIntosh and Phil Cercone at AAUP annual meeting in Philadelphia, and we look forward to a long relationship with McGill
Gospel Light Adopts Title Management Enterprise
July 1, 2009
Long time Eloquence customer, Gospel Light, is migrating to our complete Title Management Enterprise software, integrating with their newly selected Microsoft Great Plains ERP and soon-to-be-developed Ektron based website CMS. Gospel Light is a great team to work with, based in Ventura, CA and we are looking forward to expanding our relationship.
NetGalley Picks Up Steam
June 30, 2009
NetGalley is now listing nearly 300 active titles for advanced reading from 40 different publishers. This follows a very successful BEA for the NetGalley team, where interest from publishers was non-stop and the blogger-signing lines were sometimes 10 people deep. The key to this service is building the community of both publishers offering books and reviewers online requesting them, and momentum is building as hoped. It is also just simply enjoyable to work within the NetGalley community, talking with people who love books. Check out the latest offerings at NetGalley.com
Ingram Publisher Services Launches Firebrand's Title Management Enterprise Software and Eloquence Metadata Solutions
June 19, 2009
It is a great honor to announce that Ingram Publisher Services is now live on Firebrand's Title Management Enterprise Software and Eloquence service. After years of working with Ingram, delivering publisher data via Onix, Ingram signed on as a client to adopt Title Management and Eloquence as the backbone for their Publisher services. IPS currently services more than 60 houses such as O'Reilly, Taunton Press, Taschen, Kogan Page, Bloomsberg and more. The first trade sales Children's catalog was created from Title Management ahead of schedule - within a week of data conversion and go-live, and the main Trade catalog is on schedule. IPS customers are maintaining their title information via Firebrand's web-based Title Management Enterprise Software, or submitting Onix files, and that information will now be sent out to the publishing industry via the Eloquence Service. There is still plenty to do as we assist the Business Intelligence initiatives, so now it is back to work. Ingram Publishers Services Website
Caslon To Build Kogan Page USA Website
June 15, 2009
Our good friends Keith and Beatrice Ashfield at Caslon Marketing Services have adopted our Ecommerce Solutions for the Kogan Page USA website, connected to their existing installtion of Title Management Enterprise. Brock Lyman will be heading up that initiative, with Microarts providng the graphic design, and we look forward to announcing the launch of their site in a few months.
Southern Illinois University Press Launches New Website
June 15, 2009
Lain Adkins and team at SIU Press have launched their new website, built on Firebrand's Ecommerce Solutions and integrated with our Title Management Enterprise Solutions. This website is connected to the 3rd-party Shopping cart delivered by University of Chicago's Distribution Center (CDC). CDC special extra effort providing a consistent navigation within the shopping cart to provide a more seamless user experience.
Southern Illinois University Press Website
Welcome to University Press of Georgia
June 8, 2009
Firebrand is proud to welcome the University Press of Georgia to our community. The Press has signed on for our Eloquence Metadata Solutions and is working hard to bring their Fall 2009 titles online. Thanks for joining us!
Lucky Readers!
June 8, 2009
NetGalley is pleased to announce the winners of our Sony Reader giveaway, held at BookExpo America (BEA) last week. Sony generously donated two new Readers for the drawing.
Congratulations to Candace from blog BethFishReads and Judi Harris, a K-8 Staff Development professional in the Wissahickon, PA school district.
Firebrand and NetGalley sponsor first-ever Blogger Signings at BEA
May 26, 2009
It’s a new twist on an age-old publishing idea, and it’s stirring up lots of chatter in the Twittersphere.
This week at BookExpo America, NetGalley and Firebrand Technologies will be hosting continuous “blogger signings” in their booth, #4077. Nearly 45 bloggers covering a multitude of genres will be on hand to meet-and-greet, exchange ideas and even blog live.
Unbridled Books and NetGalley announce a contest inspired by author Emily St. John Mandel and our bookseller partners.
April 22, 2009
Unbridled Books and NetGalley announce a contest inspired by author Emily St. John Mandel and our bookseller partners. We want to encourage booksellers to read e-galleys, and to make this possible, we are offering a SONY Reader to the three booksellers who craft the best handselling pitches for Mandel's debut novel, LAST NIGHT IN MONTREAL (pub. date June 2). The contest runs from May 1, 2009 through midnight on June 1, 2009.
Firebrand Technologies Announces NetGalley-Eloquence Experiment: Select Eloquence customers will trial the service for free
February 6, 2009
Firebrand Technologies today announced a new and innovative program for customers of their Eloquence title information distribution service. Publishers who distribute their title information using Eloquence will be able to use NetGalley, a Firebrand service for sharing electronic galleys and new title promotional information, for free to promote their fall lists to reviewers, media, bloggers, librarians, booksellers and educators. The experiment will be open to the first 15 publishers interested in participating.
Joint Venture: NetGalley™ LLC Under Firebrand Management
Firebrandz Webinar Series Expanded
August, 2008
Welcome to Kamehameha Publishing, part of Kamehameha Schools, a large private school founded in 1887 in Honolulu. Kamehameha publishes books focused on the curriculum of the school but with a broadening appeal in general trade. Brock Lyman will be heading to Hawaii to assist Kamehameha with the installation.Kamehameha Schools
May 28, 2008
Firebrand is pleased to welcome the Perseus Books Group to our family of publishers who have adopted our Title Management Solutions. Perseus Books has been able to take advantage of our sophisticated Eloquence Metadata Solutions which is in use by Perseus Distribution and PGW. Now the book group will be managing the complete lifecycle of their titles in Title Management, focusing first on Production. Title Management will be installed and interfaced with the Perseus North Plains Digital Asset Management system also recently adopted. Off to Boulder!
A Call to Arms - Quality Solutions reinvents itself at its first user conferences
April 21, 2008
A Call to Arms - Quality Solutions reinvents itself at its first user conferences
April 21, 2008
By Craig Morgan Teicher
Many in the publishing community are familiar with the name Quality Solutions—it has long produced the Title Management software that many houses use to track and send out data about their books. But, like so much else in the book biz, the time for change has come, at least according to Fran Toolan, president of newly minted Firebrand Technologies. Read on
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April 8, 2008
April 8, 2008
Fran Toolan performed an official induction ceremony to anoint as Firebrandz more than 100 community members at the 2008 Firebrand Community Conference. With Community Leader, Burnard V. Char (aka Burnie) overseeing the ceremony, Fran urged to community to work together, defy convention and seek out innovative paths to transform publishing.
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April 7, 2008
The Firebrand Community welcomes the newly combined company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company (HMHCO), who has adopted Firebrand's Title Management Solutions and Eloquence Metadata Solutions in its Trade Publishing division. Having served Harcourt Trade for more than 7 years, Firebrand looks forward to a new era of providing innovative solutions and software to the combined team. Welcome!
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March 14, 2008
We welcome Baker & Taylor and their Advantage Publishing Group to the Firebrand Community. Already a member of the Community as a Trading Partner, Firebrand is pleased to include the folks at APG as a new relationship is formed. APG publishes a great collection of books Juvenile books and products under the Silver Dolphin imprint, Adult illustrated and gift books under the Thunder Bay imprint and the famous Uncle John's Bathroom Reader series and other great books under the Portable Books imprint. Special thanks to Gary Johnston who worked very hard to pull together the final signed agreement! Visit Advantage Publishers Group [ *link http://www.advpubgrp.com/ ]
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March 13, 2008
Firebrand welcomes Dan Balow, Julieanne Vickers and the Oasis Audio team to the Firebrand Community. A member of ECPA, Oasis Audio produces and distributes a wide variety of personal listening products with inspirational messages. Oasis has adopted the Title Management Hosted Solution and the Eloquence Metadata Solution. Welcome! http://www.oasisaudio.com.
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March 13, 2008
Michael Covington is pleased to announce the induction of New Growth Press to the ECPA Title Management Web program. New Growth Press publishes and sells a select list of high quality books focused on a fresh and practical approach to authentic living in the grace of Christ. Welcome to Karen Jacklin Teears and Mark Teears to the community!
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March 11, 2008
March 11, 2008
Welcome to Tej Sood, Director and Publisher of Anthem Press, and the Anthem Press team to the Firebrand Community. Anthem has adopted Title Management Hosted Solutions and the Eloquence Metadata Solutions. Visit Anthem at http://www.anthempress.com.
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Barbour Publishing adopts Title Management, Eloquence Metadata Solutions and Ecommerce Solutions
February 27, 2008
February 27, 2008
President George Kournounakis leads the charge to adopt the whole suite of Firebrand's solutions. Publishing 150 new titles per year, "Faithfulness to the Bible and Jesus Christ are the bedrock values behind every book Barbour's staff produces". Barbour Books, A member of ECPA, is located in Uhrichsville, Ohio which is "conveniently located" between three major airports - 95 miles through beautiful rolling Ohio hills to Cleveland, Columbus and Pittsburgh. We have thoroughly enjoyed our visits with the Barbour team and look forward to visiting Uhrichsville and nearby Dennison in the upcoming months. Keep your eyes open for Barbour's new online presence this summer at http://www.barbourbooks.com and http://www.heartsongpresents.com.
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Firebrand Technologies and Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Announce New Partnership
February 21, 2008
February 21, 2008
Firebrand's Solutions and ECPA have established a new alliance to offer critical software and services to serve the ECPA's member publishers. We welcome Mark Kuyper, Michael Covington and the ECPA team to our community. For more info: http://www.ecpa.org/pr/pr.php?id=95
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February 11, 2008
Firebrand welcomes Tuttle Publishing, who has adopted the Eloquence Metadata Solution! Tuttle will be delivering title information from their own proprietary internal systems for distribution in ONIX through Eloquence. Founded in 1948 in Rutland, VT and Tokyo, Japan, Tuttle is celebrating their 60th year in business publishing Asian interest books. Take a look at their great collection at http://www.tuttlepublishing.com. Thanks to Kathy Jones for all her hard work in establishing this relationship.
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January 23, 2008
January 23, 2008
On January 23, 1858, the American Printing House for the Blind (APH)was founded in the basement of the Kentucky School for the Blind. In 1879, the federal government designated APH as the official source of textbooks and aids for blind and visually impaired students across America. They continue to hold this designation today. Exactly 150 years later to the day, APH has adopted Firebrand's Title Management Solutions and Ecommerce Solutions as the backbone of their federally mandated service to provide the authoritative, comprehensive source of all accessible materials for blind and vision impaired students in the country. Known as the Louis website, the Title Management/Ecommerce solution will serve up more than a quarter million titles on a new website designed to be accessible to blind and vision impaired web visitors. Welcome to Julia Myers and her team!
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