eBooks Corporation: About Us

eBooks Corporation is one of the world's leading providers of ebooks to customers and retailers, libraries and patrons. Headquartered in Perth (Australia), with satellite offices in Boston (USA) and London (UK), eBooks Corporation is an unlisted public company. While seventy percent of eBooks Corporation's market remains in North America, the company's location and pedigree in the Australasian Book Industry allows a unique insight into the burgeoning Asia Pacific market.

Distributor for over one hundred publishers, including Cambridge University Press, Taylor & Francis, Pearson and Oxford University Press, eBooks Corporation was founded in Perth in January 1997 by Stephen Cole. In 1983, Stephen and Trudy Cole, created The Lane Bookshop in WA. With impeccable customer service and a superlative understanding of the market, the Lane soon had a cult following and swiftly developed into one of Australia's most successful independent bookstores. In early 1997, anticipating the evolution of a new mode of book, Stephen registered the url www.eBooks.com and the worldwide ebook group was formed.

Today, eBooks Corporation is a broad-based ebook supplier with strengths in retail, wholesale and library distribution. www.eBooks.com is a stand-alone, profitable business with impressive growth of, on average, twenty percent compound per month. This trend of rising profits over the last two years has allowed the company to expand and consolidate its ebook distribution projects, culminating in 2004 with the launch of EBL.

A member of the Open eBook Forum and the Book Industry Study Group, eBooks Corporation uses only thoroughly field-tested in-house technology and best-of-breed third party solutions. We are committed to robust, on-time, on-budget execution.

Retail - ebooks.com (www.ebooks.com)
eBooks.com, the world's first comprehensive ebookstore, was launched in September 2000. It is now the leading specialist ebookstore on the web, selling whole books, chapters and pages of books.

Library - EBL (www.ebl.ebooks.com)
In June 2004, the eBook Library was launched. EBL was developed in partnership with Curtin University, CERN in Geneva, Yale University Library, and Adobe Systems Inc. EBL is a recipient of Australian Government Research and Development technology grant.