Senior Publishing Executive Joins World's Largest Online Library - Hiring of Publishing Industry Veteran, Richard Koffler, Signals Strong Growth Plans for Questia’s Content Acquisition
Publishing industry insider, Richard Koffler, joins Questia, the world's largest online library, to aggressively grow the Questia collection of 49,000 books and 390,000 articles.
HOUSTON, TX (PRWEB) June 3, 2004--Dr. Richard Koffler, a seasoned publishing
veteran with 27 years of experience in the publishing industry, has joined
Questia Media Inc., the world’s largest online library and research service, as
its Director, Publisher Relations. Working from a base in the New York/New
Jersey area, Dr. Koffler will spearhead content acquisition to grow the Questia
online library of more than 49,000 complete books and 390,000 journal, magazine,
and newspaper articles.
The Questia online library focuses on books and
articles supporting academic research in the humanities and social sciences and
contains high quality previously published digital content from more than 260
renowned university and commercial presses. Dr. Koffler will be instrumental in
servicing existing publisher relationships, developing new publisher agreements,
and aggressively expanding the digital content in those fields of
study.
During Dr. Koffler’s distinguished 27-year career, he has most
recently been the Executive Editor for Aldine de Gruyter/Walter de Gruyter.
Prior to that position, he was the Executive Editor for Rowman & Littlefield
and the Vice President, Editorial for Associated Faculty Press/Kraus. Dr.
Koffler also held the post of Executive Director for the Association of American
University Presses, serving as chief executive and board member for that leading
educational nonprofit corporation.
A Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from
Rutgers University, an M.A. from New York University, a B.A. from Yale
University, and Fulbright and Old Dominion fellowships comprise Dr. Koffler’s
first-rate academic career, and provide an ideal foundation for his new role in
expanding the humanities and social sciences content for the world’s largest
online library.
Questia, with subscribers in 187 countries, is the
world’s largest online library and research service. Questia’s
subscription-based online service offers each user a personal copy of a
college-level library of more than 49,000 complete books, more than 390,000
journal, magazine, and newspaper articles and a research toolkit that enables
them to interact with the books and articles like they would in the physical
world, but far more efficiently and conveniently. The tools include a feature
that automatically creates citations and bibliographies in seven formal citation
styles, a highlighter and notation tool, and project folders to easily organize
multiple research projects.
Questia provides an innovative route into the
coveted student market and a new revenue stream for university and commercial
publishers. Since most publishers with digital content in the Questia online
library are compensated on a page-view basis, each time a user accesses a page,
a publisher receives a royalty payment for that page-view. This model enables
publishers to capture additional revenue from existing, backlisted, and
out-of-print titles while building brand awareness that increases hard copy
sales.
Questia is also committed to protecting the intellectual property
of its publishing partners. The digitization of each title is high quality, and
the electronic versions mirror the print versions to maintain book structure and
original pagination. Users cannot download books or articles and are only able
to print one page at a time. All titles are stored in the Questia protected
database and are served to the user one page at a time.
"I welcome the
challenge of bringing my knowledge of publishing and my experience with
colleagues in the field to an undertaking that will change the way students in
higher education approach the underlying tasks of research and writing," said
Richard Koffler, Director, Publisher Relations, Questia Media, Inc. "The growth
potential for the company is huge, and the territory ahead, largely uncharted,"
continued Koffler.
“We are delighted that Richard is joining the Questia
team,” said Troy L. Williams, president and CEO, Questia Media, Inc. “He is
widely recognized as extremely knowledgeable of the publishing industry and will
provide us with invaluable expertise. Questia achieved a cash-flow positive
position just over a year ago, and we are now undertaking a substantial
expansion of our library collection. Richard will be instrumental in helping us
achieve this goal,” continued Williams.
To learn more about Questia and
how becoming a publishing partner of Questia can help your company generate
additional revenue streams, please visit http://www.questia.com/aboutQuestia/aboutPublisher.html or
email Dr. Koffler at e-mail protected from spam bots.
About
Questia
Founded in 1998, Questia Media, Inc., launched its revolutionary
online library in January 2001, with powerful search and writing tools created
specifically to help students do better research and write better papers.
Questia provides unlimited access to the full content of an extensive collection
of books and journal articles, as well as a wide range of tools, including
highlighter, markup, automatic footnotes and bibliography builder. For millions
of students and researchers, the Questia SM service enables them to efficiently
research and compose papers at any time, from virtually every connected corner
of the world. Based in Houston, Questia is delivering on the true promise of the
Internet by providing access to a wealth of human knowledge.
Visit www.questia.com for more
information.
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