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Business Sectors

Books and publishing

The book and publishing industry is another strong sector for Atlas.

Organisations using our software in this sector include:

  • The Book Service - Britain’s largest book distributor
  • Harper Collins - one of the most comprehensive book publishing groups in the country
  • Computer Bookshops - the UK's premier computer book wholesaler/distributor, who use Atlas network expertise independent of their EDI software
  • Marston Books - the leading independently owned distributor of books and journals within the STM, professional, art and Christian markets
  • Cambridge University Press - publishers of the finest academic and educational writing from around the world
  • Maruzen - Japan’s leading bookseller
  • Askews - a specialised, full-service library supplier tailored to the specific needs of public, school and academic libraries throughout the UK and abroad
  • Thames and Hudson - the respected and innovative publishers of illustrated books on art, architecture, graphics, design, fashion, and photography,
  • Pocketbook - the leading publisher of self help books on business and management
  • Nielsen Book Services - one of the leading providers of electronic trading services to the UK and international book markets.

  • Linux and the Book Industry - Atlas Products International (API) have expanded it’s EDI, XML and communication systems onto the entire range of Unix platforms to include all flavours of Linux including Red Hat Enterprise, Fedora, SUSE, DEBIAN and many more.

Nielsen Book Services’ TeleOrdering announced that it had selected the Atlas/Linux combination to add to their existing Atlas servers driving the Teleordering system.

TeleOrdering, part of Nielsen Book Services and owned by VNU publications, is the largest provider of data and EDI services for the book industry.

Chris Ostrom, Nielsen Book Services IT Director, said “We have used Atlas since TeleOrdering was launched in June 1994. The whole EDI translation for our TeleOrdering network runs multiple Atlas EDI software on Multiple Unix and Linux platforms.

“It is also the EDI messaging translator for our BookNet web solution. We chose the Linux/Atlas EDI combination for its enhanced performance and ultra reliability. Effectively Atlas EDI has been at the core of the electronic book ordering industry for over 13 years.”

We also fully comply with BIC’s e4books accreditation scheme and believe it is a valuable element of the industry’s efforts to ensure that all trading partners are communicating orders, invoices, credits, delivery notes, acknowledgements and other business critical information electronically by 1 May 2008.

Click here for our Management Pocketbooks case study.

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