Are you a publisher or reseller?

Publishers and resellers around the world are using the VitalBookTM format as their downloadable digital option. Books in the VitalBookTM format are secure files that give you complete control over where and how you sell digital versions of your titles.

For information on how to get started selling your titles in the VitalBookTM format please contact us at sales@VitalSource.com.

Our technology, your strategy

The primary difference between the VitalBookTM format and other downloadable digital formats is that with books in the VitalBookTM format you remain completely in control of your digital strategy.

Sell downloadable VitalBookTM versions of your titles through whatever channels you choose and under whatever terms you like.

In addition to providing a secure, portable format that your customers will love, VitalSourceTM also provides you an online tool, VitalSourceTM P2, that lets you manage products, assign prices, and generate saleable product activation codes.

Currently selling books in the VitalBookTM format:

  • Elsevier
  • John Wiley & Sons
  • McGraw-Hill
  • Pearson Education Group
  • Oxford University Press
  • Blackwell Publishing
  • F.A. Davis
  • Lippincott / Williams & Wilkins
  • Holt, Rinehart & Winston
  • B.C. Decker
  • Aspen Publishers
  • Bedford, Freeman & Worth
  • Thieme Publishers
  • Garland Science Publishing
  • Access Copyright
  • American Dental Association
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
  • Human Kinetics
  • Quintessence
  • AMSCO School Publications, Inc
  • Hayes-Barton Press
  • UNC Press

Safeguarding your digital rights

You know you have to explore new digital channels, but you must also protect your assets. To protect valuable intellectual property rights, VitalSourceTM has developed state-of-the-art, multilayered encryption technology. This technology has delivered millions of digital titles around the world without incident, still giving customers the freedom to engage with content in ways the print medium would never allow.





VitalBookTM Format

The VitalBookTM format is nothing short of a revolution in educational publishing. Powered by the VitalSourceTM Bookshelf reader, the VitalBook meets the key demands for digital content:

  • Permanence - Rather than temporary access to Web-based subscriptions, students want ownership of their resources. When you purchase a VitalBook, it's yours to keep, right on your computer.
  • Portability - Today's students don't want to be tied down - not to a library, not to a remote server. The VitalBookTM format lets them take their books anywhere.
  • Performance - No other digital format offers the robust features of the VitalBookTM format. Active learning tools include highlighting, high-powered search, bookmarking, even copy & paste.
  • Price - The opportunity is ripe for low-cost digital books. VitalSourceTM enables innovative pricing models, most of which are impossible in the print or Web environments.

See it in action

To see how the VitalBookTM solution works, visit the VitalSourceTM Bookshelf page to see our application.

Ready to get started?

For more information on preparing your files to be sold in the VitalBookTM format, click here.