Baker & Taylor to Offer Rich Digital Media Content from No Limit Publishing on Blio

June 2, 2010 - PRLog -- CHARLOTTE, N.C.  – Baker & Taylor, Inc., the world’s largest distributor of physical and digital media, is proud to partner with the No Limit Publishing Group, a global Independent publisher, to provide rich, highly-formatted content on Blio. Blio is the revolutionary e-reader software application created by knfbReading Technology and powered by Baker & Taylor.

“Baker & Taylor is proud to add No Limit’s business and consumer titles on Blio,” said Tom Morgan, Chairman and CEO of Baker & Taylor. “With colorful illustrations, photos and informative graphics, No Limit’s titles, including business, self-help, mystery fiction and fitness & health books, offer much more than straight text to educate readers. Readers will be blown away!”

By leveraging strong relationships with the publishing community as well as its best-of-breed digital media partners, Baker & Taylor is converting, managing and delivering new content for Blio every day. With more than 44,000 customers in 120 countries, Baker & Taylor’s global reach makes it the perfect partner to provide superior content management and distribution for the world’s most innovative e-reader application.

Baker & Taylor’s affiliation with Blio is its latest step in bringing comprehensive digital media services to multiple channels and to a wide variety of end users, strengthening its position as the premier source for physical and digital media distribution.

“We are ecstatic about our multi-faceted partnership with Baker & Taylor – with its strong distribution Infrastructure, expertise, and disruptive technology platforms for rich-media digital book delivery” said Chris J Snook, No Limit’s Editor-In-Chief. “We are excited about Baker & Taylor’s commitment to lead the field of distribution beyond physical books to this new and rapidly evolving world of digital content.  It is providing customers access to our must-have titles on this new platform and on the device of their choice.  This is a game-changer in the digital e-reader world and is destined to expand the market and bring more readers online while removing the barriers to entry for consumers with lower disposable incomes who can’t afford an extra device just to read books but crave the rich media experience the digital versions can provide.”

Blio, featuring cutting-edge print-to-speech (for rights-enabled titles) and full-color 3-D technologies, is the brainchild of futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil. Blio delivers the most advanced, flexible and open reading platform in the world. Blio is exceptional at bringing to life the books that Wiley excels in publishing – such as cookbooks (download recipes) and travel books (follow a video to a distant land). Blio is also hardware neutral, meaning it works on a number of devices, including personal computers, laptops, netbooks and iPhones, not to mention up and coming tablets.

About Baker & Taylor
Baker & Taylor, Inc. (www.baker-taylor.com) is a global information and entertainment services company that offers print and digital books and entertainment products along with value-added services to libraries, educational institutions and retailers. Based in Charlotte, N.C., the company has been in existence for more than 180 years, developing long-term relationships with major suppliers, including book publishers, movie studios and music labels. Baker & Taylor maintains one of the largest combined in-stock book, video and music inventories in the United States, and services the broadest customer base in the industry. Baker & Taylor is majority owned by Castle Harlan Partners IV, L.P., an institutional private equity fund managed by Castle Harlan Inc., a leading private equity investment firm.

About knfbReading Technology Inc.
knfbReading Technology Inc. is a joint venture between Kurzweil Technologies –
headed by CEO Ray Kurzweil, a 30-year innovator and pioneer in assistive technologies
and the inventor of the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind – and the
National Federation of the Blind, the largest, most influential membership organization of blind people in
the United States.

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About The No Limit Publishing Group
No Limit Publishing (www.nolimitpublishinggroup.com) is one of the fastest growing Independent cross-media book publishers in the United States. Its full-service publishing offerings and imprints target an efficient path to authorship in a hybrid (author and consumer-centric) business model that marries the best benefits of both the self-publishing and traditional publishing categories to lead the industry into the future. To date its No Limit’s titles have focused on the niches of business, thought leadership, personal finance, personal empowerment/self help, lifestyle, fitness & health, alternative medicine, and mystery fiction. No Limit Enterprises, LLC is majority owned by TLEC Ventures, Inc. (www.tlecompany.com) a modern-media holding company and venture catalyst firm.