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ebrary Joins ProQuest

Dear Valued Customers:

 

ebrary is very excited to announce that we have joined the ProQuest family of companies, and we thank you for your continued input and support that have helped us achieve this important milestone! For details on the acquisition, please see our joint statement below.

 

As you likely know, ProQuest is a global leader in the library market that shares ebrary's goal of revolutionizing the way in which people search, find, use, and share information. Together, we will provide many new and exciting opportunities for ebrary customers including:

• Improved discovery through integrated services – While ebrary and ProQuest will continue to support and enhance the existing ebrary product line, ebrary's e-books will also be seamlessly searchable along with ProQuest's monumental database of books, journals, dissertations, newspaper, video, and more.
• Even more flexible models – In addition to supporting subscription, perpetual access, and patron driven acquisition models, ProQuest and ebrary will join forces to provide new models for acquiring content including short term loans.
• New technologies that enhance the research process – ProQuest and ebrary are committed to developing new capabilities to make research quick and efficient including support for additional languages such as Chinese and Arabic, improvements to DASH!™, QuickView™, InfoTools™, bookshelves and other key components of the ebrary interface. 
• Greater levels of customer service – By joining forces with ProQuest, ebrary will be able expand and improve our level of customer support, training, and marketing services.

Please continue to work with your current ebrary representatives, and be assured that all of your contracts, license rights, and account balances will be intact. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to call.

 

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If you are going to ALA, please join us for a cocktail reception on Saturday, January 8, from 6pm to 8pm at Gaslamp Rendezvous Restaurant, 551 J Street, San Diego, CA 92101.  To RSVP, please visit http://www.ebrary.com/corp/inforequest/alamw11party.jsp. 

 

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Dear Valued Customer:

As we enter the New Year, ProQuest's content-unifying new search platform is rolling out to libraries around the world. It is an exciting time, and ProQuest, together with acclaimed e-book pioneer ebrary is pleased to announce ProQuest's planned acquisition of ebrary, setting the stage for significant acceleration of the process of serious research. The acquisition marries both companies' inventive, user-centric technologies and adds a growing pool of a quarter-million e-books to ProQuest's monumental content offerings.

Founded in Palo Alto in 1999, ebrary is a fast growing leader in the rapidly evolving e-book industry. Key to ebrary's success are its flexible, customer-oriented models including subscription, perpetual access, and patron driven acquisition; a growing selection of digital books and other valuable content from some 500 of the world's top publishers; and cutting edge technology including InfoTools™ and DASH!™ designed by the Silicon Valley's most talented engineers. ebrary has built a reputation for providing consistent innovation that uniquely supports the research experience, making the company a natural fit in ProQuest's mission to support global research.

ProQuest plans continued investment in ebrary's popular products and services for the academic, corporate, and public library markets including Academic Complete™, the company's flagship product that provides the best e-book value in the industry with multi-user access to more than 52,000 titles. Additionally, ProQuest will expand ebrary's selection of research tools and ability to support new e-book devices and broadening language coverage from its current support of major European languages to include Chinese, Arabic and others. Further, ProQuest will accelerate the indexing of e-book content on its own all-new platform where books offered by ebrary will be searchable along with ProQuest's highly-sought research content. Ul timately, as part of the ProQuest family, ebrary will be positioned to drive new levels of e-book discovery and usage enhancing value for both publishers and end-users.

ebrary founders Christopher Warnock and Kevin Sayar will remain to lead the business in its Palo Alto headquarters.

Driven by a long history of direct interaction with researchers, ebrary products have earned a well-deserved reputation for high quality supported by top-notch service. This is a time of rapid change in the information industry, as companies continue to find new ways to provide information. We are proud to include these products in the ProQuest family as wonderful complements to the services offered to academic, government, public library, and corporate market customers.

You have our commitment to keep you informed about any changes that might affect you. Customers should continue to work with the sales and service representatives you currently use. You can be confident that all of your contracts, license rights, and account balances will be intact.

The opportunity to work with you, our valued customers, is deeply valued.

In the meantime, please don't hesitate to get in touch with us with comments, questions, or observations. Here's to an exciting new beginning for ProQuest and ebrary to join forces to create a bright new future together: where serious research starts.

 

Marty Kahn, CEO ProQuest

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