In an economic climate that led Publishers Weekly to predict 2009 would be “the worst year for publishing in decades,” eBook sales are growing at more than 100% a year, according to the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). Now, with the introduction of a fully self-service version of the Tizra Publisher web application, this online publishing upside is within reach of whole new categories of content owners—both inside and outside the traditional publishing industry.

The new self-serve signup means that anyone can have access to the same highly flexible content management and online commerce capabilities MIT Press uses in its CISnet collection of online computer science books (http://cisnet.mit.edu). Recently MIT Press has been joined by new Tizra customers including Indiana University Press, University of Texas Press, the Association of Research Libraries and Bloomsbury Academic.