Bussum, Netherlands, March 11, 2010: Bentham Science Publishers signs agreement to distribute Bentham ebooks through Barnes & Nobels (B&N), Academic Rights Press (ARP), Bowker, Dawson Books, Swets, Ebrary and EMpact Sales. The company hopes that these collaborations will go a long way in increasing the readership of their ebooks internationally.

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.

Bowker® is the world's leading source for bibliographic information. It is Founded in 1872. The public, academic, research and government libraries rely on Bowker's wide range of reference and reporting products and services. Publishers and booksellers rely on Bowker's supply chain services and the information that drives their transactions on a daily basis.

Dawson Books is a long-established company specializing in the supply of books and complementary services to libraries around the world. Dawson Books offers free password to libraries to access enterBooks.com, a database of greater than 12 million book titles that displays full bibliographic information for each title and allows libraries to order online.

Swets is the world’s leading subscription services company, with offices in more than 20 countries around the world. Swets provides its customers with access to more than 65,000 publishers. Swets has appeared in E-Content magazine's '100 Companies that matter most in the Digital Content Industry. Swets is regularly featured in FEM Business Magazine's 'Top 500 companies in The Netherlands' and is the only subscription services company to be awarded ISO 9001:2000 certification on a global basis.

Ebrary offers digital content related services to libraries, corporations, government, publishers, societies, aggregators, distributors, individuals and others. In addition to content products, which include handbooks, e-books, manuals, reports and other authoritative documents under flexible subscription and purchase models, Ebrary licenses their technology to organizations that need a cost-effective and efficient way to distribute and integrate their own digital materials online. Ebrary has partnered with more than 425 of the world’s leading publishers, and a growing network of international resellers, book vendors, and other partners that distribute their products and services worldwide.

EMpact Sales™ is part of the EBSCO group. Through its affiliation with EBSCO Information Services, EMpact is the ideal partner for publishers who wish to expand their sales efforts and promotion of their products to additional targeted territories across the globe. The EMpact team can develop an exclusive and strategic plan to dramatically broaden the exposure for publishers’ electronic products and content.

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 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