Berg Wins Publishing Technology E-Publishing Award

["Laura Cox" <laura.cox@frontlinegms.com>]

10th March 2008, Oxford, UK, Berg Publishers is very pleased to 
announce that it has won the Publishing Technology E-Publishing 
Award at the 2008 Independent Publishing Awards. Berg was praised 
for its efforts to develop new digital strategies and 
partnerships and for increasing its sales from e-publishing 
activities. The judges commented: "Berg is making smart use of 
both technology and content to reach out to its customers. It is 
a shining example of a publisher previously limited to print but 
now making bold new moves into new mediums." The panel added that 
they were impressed by the high standard of entries in this 
category. "Independent publishers are clearly thinking very 
creatively about new technologies."

Commenting on the Awards, Berg's Managing Director Kathryn Earle 
said: "We are using our e-initiatives to exploit existing 
proprietary content from backlist books and journals and to 
showcase new IP. We are thrilled to have won the inaugural award 
in this important category - particularly amongst such stiff 
competition. Through this Independent Publishing Award, the IPG 
are at the forefront in recognizing the importance of new 
technologies to the publishing industry. Smaller publishers are 
nimble and can quickly embrace new channels to market. It's a 
very exciting time to be an independent publisher, now that we 
have a much more level playing field with the internet. We are 
extremely proud of this achievement."

Berg, an Oxford-based academic publisher, has a major online 
reference work on dress and fashion currently in development. It 
has a particularly strong backlist in fashion studies, having 
launched the pioneering journal Fashion Theory in 1997. At the 
end of 2002, Earle led a Management Buy-Out and attracted equity 
funding to build Berg's books and journals programmes. Post 
buy-out, turnover has more than doubled, with significant growth 
coming through e-publishing activities. Thirteen journals have 
been added to Berg's portfolio, up from two, and the books 
programme has diversified to include reference and textbook 
publishing. The company has also been awarded a BIC Product Data 
Excellence Gold Award for 2007-2008.

For further information please email vselbach@bergpublishers.com 
or phone Veruschka Selbach at the number below.

Berg
1st Floor, Angel Court
81 St Clements Street
Oxford OX4 1AW
Tel: 01865-245104
Fax: 01865-791165
www.bergpublishers.com