AEP (Association of Educational Publishers)

The Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) is a nonprofit organization that serves and advances the industry of supplemental educational publishing. The membership of AEP represents the breadth of educational content developers delivering progressive educational products and services in both print and electronic formats to today's schools and colleges.

AEP's thought leadership and market insight have created ground-breaking opportunities for its members to collaborate, network, and partner with each other as well as to acquire a voice in the development of government education policy. Founded in 1895, AEP now assists its members in navigating the global realities of educational publishing in the 21st Century.

Web: www.aepweb.org

BISG (Book Industry Study Group)

The Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG) is the industry's leading trade association for policy, standards and research. Membership consists of publishers, manufacturers, suppliers, wholesalers, retailers, librarians and others engaged in the business of print and electronic media. For over 30 years, BISG has provided a forum for all industry professionals to come together and efficiently address issues and concerns to advance the book community.

Web: www.bisg.org

IDPF (International Digital Publishing Forum)

The International Digital Publishing Forum is a non-profit trade and standards organization for the digital publishing industry representing over 90 companies and organizations. The work of IDPF fosters and promotes the development of electronic publishing applications and products that benefit creators of content, makers of reading systems and consumers.

Web: www.idpf.org

The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) is an organization of more than 130 nonprofit scholarly publishers, dedicated to the support of creative and effective scholarly communications. The members of AAUP publish peer-reviewed books and journals in every field of scholarly inquiry, as well as award-winning literature and regional works. Through its programs and information resources, AAUP helps its members fulfill their common commitments to scholarship, the academy, and society. Learn more at www.aaupnet.org.

Audiomedia Production is an audio production vendor to leading educational and trade publishers. With nearly a decade of experience in the industry, AP is a relied upon partner to clients including Hachette Book Group, Audible.com and Benchmark Education Company, garnering a deserving reputation for competent project management and quality media. Located in New York City, AP draws on a pool of world class creative professionals, all of whom share our client's vision of producing engaging, enlightened audio.

FlySheet is the leading information provider and solutions aggregator to hundreds of academic, law, medical, public, special, and school district libraries among Chinese library community. It offers a one-stop-shop total solution to the library's information and technological require, with accurate and reliable databases, server hardware, software tools and applications as well as installation, maintenance and training services in the medium they want, wherever and whenever they need it. FlySheet attempts to deliver, all over the Great China region, professionals the most cost-effective information tools, insight and solutions, with accurate and fair pricing that indispensable to the efficient and productive execution of their work.

Gibson Publishing Connections Inc. assists Canadian publishers and rights holders to convert their copyright print holdings into revenue-producing assets for electronic distribution.

IP Innovation is a provider of a comprehensive range of services designed to assist scientists, researchers and those involved in the Intellectual Property Information management process, based on both patent and journal information.

IPI's primary aim is to meet the growing demands for Patent and Literature Information services within IP communities. In doing this it plans to evolve into a bridge between information users and global information repositories. Part of this aim is to become the leading provider globally for Asian Scientific, Technology and Patent Information Solutions.

The Publishing Technology group enables publishers to focus on their core competences by providing a single, trusted partner for both technology requirements and business development services. It is the largest provider of software and services for the publishing industry, servicing eight out of ten of the world's largest publishers. The group's proposition uniquely spans front and back office systems - complemented by a range of business development services - to provide the industry's only end-to-end suite of software specifically designed to support the publishing process. Capabilities cover editorial and production, product information, billing and fulfillment, content conversion & hosting, website development, marketing programs, information commerce, customer relationship management, rights and royalties and business intelligence. All application modules can be configured independently to meet specific publishers' needs and to allow flexible integration with existing systems. Associated sales and marketing services include consultancy and research, sales representation and telemarketing. The company is listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange and has offices in Europe and North America.