In Providence, RI, there’s a tiny startup called Tizra that’s dedicated to helping publishers take charge of distributing their own e-books, without having to build their own e-publishing infrastructure. All a publisher needs is an Adobe PDF version of a book it wants to sell online. (Most publishers already use the format as part of their production process.) Once the publisher has uploaded the file to Tizra’s online service, the company’s software chops the book into individual pages, makes those pages searchable by Google, and organizes them in customizable Web-based storefronts where publishers can set prices and sell content by the page, by the chapter, or in any increment they please.

Full Story: Tizra Puts Publishers Back in Control of Their E-Books Source: xconomy, February 24th, 2009 Author: Wade Roush Added on February 26th, 2009 at 9:23 am, by Matt Mikula