Tizra signs up MIT Press

MIT Press has signed an agreement with Tizra, Inc., to use the company's recently launched Agile PDF software platform to create a website that will enable users to find, buy and view online versions of books published by the press.

The site, which will carry MIT Press branding, is scheduled to go live next month with books from the press's Computer Science and related collections.

The service represents the first time the MIT Press has sold online versions of its computer and information science books.

"Tizra offered us a very attractive way to build on our own brand, and to create new online products that play to the particular strengths of our publishing program," said Gita Manaktala, Marketing Director at the press. "Like other publishers, we are still learning the best ways to distribute our books online, so it's imperative that we work with technology that will let us respond and adapt quickly."