What is "bookshout"

BookShout is a technology operating company founded in 2010 by Jason Illian in the Book Publishing Industry with offices in Dallas, TX and New York City, and backed by John Ingram of Ingram Publishing. It hosts over 1 million eBook files in its catalog and works with over 1,000 publishers including Chronicle Books, Hachette Publishing Group, HarperCollins, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Penguin Random House, Perseus, Simon & Schuster, Wiley, and Workman.

BookShout is the largest provider of bulk eBook sales in the world and has partnered with numerous corporations to provide them with digital content such as, CareerBuilder, Dr. Ben Carson,CBS’ How I Met Your Mother, Cisco, the Hearst Corporation, Intel, and Microsoft. BookShout has also partnered with South by Southwest (SXSW) to provide all eBook content for the 2015 event.

BookShout's eReader technology works on Android devices, iPads, iPhones, Kindle Fire HD, Nook HD/HD+, and the web. BookShout reports to The New York Times Best Seller List and has a proprietary digital rights management (DRM) scheme.

The company raised $6 million in Series B funding in 2013.