Liguori Editore

Since its foundation, in 1949, Liguori Editore has been interested in promoting advanced research in the social, human, and applied sciences. The publishing house production includes series about literary criticism, linguistics, social sciences and economy, as well as construction theory and mathematics, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, anthropology, new multi-media, which have been developed with the collaboration of influential scholars from Italy and abroad. The general catalogue comprises more than 3300 titles, and about 180 are the new or reprint volumes which are published every year. The production includes a number of periodicals, often published in collaboration with different University Departments. During the last years Liguori Editore has been actively engaged with researching into innovative fields of publishing and communication, and has taken part to some projects founded by European Union and MIUR (the Italian Ministry of the University and Research) The attention given to new technologies has in fact characterized the activity of Liguori in the past years: through the publication and management of the publishing house web site, Liguori has been working with a model of communication which is particularly effective for the diffusion of its catalogue, and offers a series of products and innovative services. E-commerce is also managed through the web site, thanks to a sophisticated implemented search system, which allows users to visualize a great bulk of information regarding each title (cover, presentation, index, available reviews and even a preview of some pages). Along with the production of traditional printed books, Liguori produces electronic format books (eBooks). The management of a software dedicated to these technologies and of a system of Digital Rights Management (DRM) has allowed Liguori to build up a system for the endowment of services which allow the users to use the contents of the book choosing each time the most appropriate way to satisfy their needs: the eCompile system, for example, allows to browse all eBooks present in the catalogue and to buy even just single pages or chapters; the ePrint system offers the possibility to print single pages of an electronic book directly on the users’ personal computer; eSubscribe is a sophisticated system which allows the user to access for a period of time eBooks from the catalogue in online or offline mode. In the light of the reform of the University, Liguori has nonetheless elaborated a mode for endowing the contents for home learning (eLearning). Through the use of multimedia, in fact, our eLearning products make it possible to speed up the learning process without reducing the quality or the quantity of the contents offered.

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