txtr enters partnership agreement with Random House
Berlin, April 15th, 2010.
The German eBook start-up txtr GmbH has closed a content delivery deal
with the publishing group Random House, enabling txtr to offer eBook titles by over 40 publishers directly through the txtr online Store. Users of the txtr platform, and future users of the txtr Reader will now be offered additional high quality content by renowned publishers, such as Luchterhand, Heyne, Goldmann, DVA, Knaus and C. Bertelsmann. The new addition already comprises more than 2400 digital titles, which are constantly extended by new publications and electronic versions of backlist titles.
The txtr Store, which is currently offering more than 20,000 digital books in German language—the largest collection of German eBook titles in EPUB format—gains additional appeal with the new agreement. Its offering includes current best sellers in fiction, interesting non-fiction titles, eminent long sellers and many new discoveries. The recent agreement is good news for ardent readers, since the Random House publishing group offers a comprehensive eBook program, including modern classics like Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Thus spoke Zarathustra”, or Richard Yates’ “Easter Paradise”, as well as acclaimed top authors and gripping new releases, such as “Payback” by Frank Schirrmacher and crime stories by Stieg Larsson and Ian Rankin. “We are very happy about this addition to the quality of our outstanding eBook offering,” says Ulrik Deichsel, New Business Developer at txtr. “Future chances in our business will depend on the best content offering for the whole variety of different device platforms.” Dr. Frank Sambeth, COO of Random House, says: “We are glad to be able to now offer eBooks by the Random House publishers on the innovative txtr platform, too—both for reading on the txtr Reader, and on the iPhone.”
Please download the complete press release here (in German) or here (in English)
Joint Venture: txtr.hu from the 30th of March
Berlin, February the 24th 2010.
The Berlin-based company txtr expands: in cooperation with Lira Könyv and bookline.hu a Hungarian release of the txtr store will soon be made available at txtr.hu. Analogously to the German platform, txtr.hu will provide easy access to Hungarian eBooks at the user's convenience.
Hitherto, txtr has offered the widest range of eBooks in Germany - but this is only the beginning. Together with the largest publishing group in Hungary, Lira Könyv, who is also the leading bookstore chain and only book wholesaler in the country, and with bookline.hu, the largest online retailer of Hungarian books, txtr will introduce its first European branch on the 30th of March. Thereby establishing a complete and open solution for buying, storing, publishing and sharing digital documents also in Hungary. The platform will be accessible anytime on demand with the txtr iPhone application, and soon with the txtr Reader as well.
"In Lira Könyv and bookline.hu we have found strong partners who share our vision of the digital future of reading, and complement our technological expertise", says Ulrich Deichsel, head of New Business Developer at txtr. "We are very pleased to present an excellent range of eBooks to the Hungarian customers through this cooperation."
"The eBook market is growing steadily, also in Hungary", says Péter Weiler, CEO at eBook Hungary, "we are therefore pleased to have found a most innovative solution for distributing, selling and publishing digital documents with txtr. To optimize our customers' shopping experience, we are already engaged in promising negotiations with leading mobile operators."
Sales for the txtr Reader in Hungary are planned starting from summer 2010 via Lira Könyv Shops and Bookline.
Txtr builds tools and services for digital reading. The development of a complete service chain, supporting a multitude of vendors, applications and devices, forms the core of txtr’s strategy. txtr cooperates with publishers and operators worldwide to provide comprehensive access to digital books, newspapers, magazines and other documents. It is txtr’s vision to extend the ways in which people are using electronic content. For further information please visit reader.txtr.com/start/ txtr/ and txtr.com