PROVIDENCE – Tizra Inc. says Duke University Press has signed an agreement to use Tizra’s Agile PDF, a hosted publication sales and delivery service, to repackage, deliver and sell their book-based content in an easy to read electronic form.
The Tizra platform will enable Duke to create and manage a fully searchable, Duke-branded online storefront to sell its books to individuals and institutions. Buyers will be able to purchase individual chapters or pages, as well as collections combining multiple works under a variety of licensing and pricing models.
Duke University Press publishes approximately 120 books annually, placing it among the 20 largest university presses in America. Its journal program is in the top five, with more than 30 titles.
Providence-based Tizra’s mission is to help businesses to flexibly package, deliver, and sell information online. Its hosted management solution for Portable Document Format (PDF) files enables publishers to generate immediate revenue and gain experience in the critical expansion of online information sales beyond periodicals and databases and into longer forms of content, according to the company.
