eBook Services - Books, Journals, Magazines, Catalogs, Article Reprints | The Sheridan Group

Expand the reach of your titles and tap into a growing consumer market by converting your book or journal content to eContent suitable for tablets, mobile devices, and laptops.  Sheridan’s suite of eContent offerings provides authors and publishers an array of services to satisfy all electronic book and publication needs.

Convert Content – Sheridan can convert content to any of the following file formats: ePub, MobiPocket, eBook PDF, or XML.
Manage Digital Rights – Protect your eBook by encrypting converted files with Sheridan's Digital Rights Management System powered by Adobe^® Content Server.
Distribute Content – Sheridan offers the following solutions to help you sell or distribute your content:

Sheridan Connect

Create your own eCommerce website, branded with your logo and colors, to display all of your electronic content in a catalog format. Optional integration with our print-on-demand system allows you to sell print versions of your titles alongside your electronic content.  Consumers access your eCommerce site via a link from your website. Sheridan will host your eCommerce site and manage the shopping cart experience and payment processing. Each month we send you a sales report and a check for your sales.

Publisher Connect

For publishers with an established online ordering process for printed titles, Sheridan can add a content fulfillment process that is connected to your current site but does not compromise the existing look, feel, and payment process.

ShelfWise^®

ShelfWise (www.shelfwise.com) was developed for authors and small publishers as an easy and affordable option for direct-to-consumer sales. An aggregated eStore, ShelfWise houses eBook and journal titles from multiple publishers and/or authors in a single online catalog. Optional integration with our print-on-demand system allows you to sell print versions of your titles alongside your electronic content.  Consumers can link to ShelfWise from the author’s website or other marketing activities to purchase and download titles. The purchase transaction is managed by Sheridan Books, and sales reporting and a check for any sales are sent to the author or publisher on a monthly basis. For more information about ShelfWise, view the ShelfWise Video Guide.

3rd Party Distribution

Automate the distribution of your eBook and publication files and metadata to a variety of third parties, including retail, libraries, academic, and reference sites.