Bussum, Netherlands, December 1, 2009: Bentham Science Publishers signs agreement to distribute Bentham ebooks through Barnes & Nobels (B&N) and Academic Rights Press (ARP).

Barnes & Nobels known to be one of the largest internet book stores, stocks over 1 million titles for immediate delivery. In 2009, Barnes & Noble.com also became a leader in eBooks, offering over 1 million titles in its eBooks store and launching Nook, one of the world's most advanced eBook readers, that features groundbreaking lending technology, a color touch screen and lets readers download books in seconds.

Academic Rights Press is engaged in licensing academic information, primarily for distribution in the developing academic library markets in Asia, the Middle East and South America. They offer delivery of ebooks in a secure, online and easy-to-use platform to the Asian, Middle Eastern and South American markets which represents special value to publishers.

Bentham Science plans to publish more than 200 ebooks by the end of 2010 and 39 ebooks have been published in 2009. The ebooks cover a range of areas in science, technology, medicine, social sciences and humanities. Bentham Ebooks are a useful source of information to academics, corporate researchers, graduates and under-graduates worldwide. Bentham Ebooks are available in user friendly PDF format and can be downloaded directly from the website.

Bentham Science Publishers , a major international STM publisher of high quality publications , publishes 90 print and online scholarly journals along with over 200 open access journals. Bentham Science journals have a large distribution and readership particularly in Europe, North America, Japan and Asia. View the company website at www.bentham.org