COMMUNITY NEWS

Firebrandz Community Webinars are Launched
July 8, 2008
Firebrandz launched the Firebrandz Community Webinars to a large crowd of online participants. The first installment of this continuing webinar series was entitled 'Introducing Title Management 7' and focused on the new architecture and upcoming features to be formally release September 15, 2008. The webinar schedule can be found at our Upcoming Events page.
 
 
Welcome to Professional Publications Inc.
June 30, 2008
Firebrand is pleased to welcome PPI, a publisher of license and exam test prep for engineers, based in Belmont, California. PPI has adopted the Eloquence Metadata Solutions to provide title information in Onix and other formats. PPI Home Page
 
 
Perseus Books Joins the Firebrand Community

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 Persues North Plains Digital Asset Management system also recently adopted. Off to Boulder!

 

From Publishers Weekly
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
[ hide ]

More than 100 attendees officially knighted as Firebrands
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.
[ hide ]

The Firebrand Community Welcomes Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company
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!
[ hide ]

Baker & Taylor's Advantage Publishing Group adopts Title Management Solutions
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/ ]
[ hide ]

Going Audio: Welcome to Oasis Audio
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.
[ hide ]

ECPA Member Publisher New Growth Press Adopts ECPA Title Management Web
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!
[ hide ]

Back in the United Kingdom: Wimbledon Publishing Company Limited/Anthem Press joins the Firebrand Community
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.
[ hide ]

Barbour Publishing adopts Title Management, Eloquence Metadata Solutions and Ecommerce Solutions
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.
[ hide ]

Firebrand Technologies and Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Announce New Partnership
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
[ hide ]

Tuttle Publishing Joins the Firebrand Community
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.
[ hide ]

A Special Present on their 150th Anniversary: American Printing House for the Blind
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!
[ hide ]