See Tizra at the Frankfurt Book Fair

Guten Tag! If you are attending the Frankfurt Book Fair and thinking about your digital publishing strategy, we’d like to meet with you to tell you about all the great things happening at Tizra including:

Our recent partnership with HighWire to power their Folio ebook platform (see below)
How Goodheart-Willcox uses Tizra to create digital first content
Exciting new features such as an improved e-reading experience, new mobile responsive design templates, and new APIs for faster uploading and better design integration
Plus, some big news we can't tell you about until the show!

Find Tizra at:

The American Collective Stand

Hall 8.0 S31

or email us at carlos.martinez@tizra.com to arrange a meeting.

Please join us in congratulating HighWire on the launch of Folio!

Built on the HighWire Open Platform and leveraging Tizra for ebook integration, Folio is a flexible, scalable, ebook solution, providing a user-friendly, intuitive reading experience tailored to a publisher’s specific audience and content.

Join HighWire for a glass of bubbly and a demo of Folio including the Duke eBooks’ library release:

Wednesday, 9 October @ 16:30

Hall 4.2 K 17

Reserve your spot today! rsvp@highwire.org

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