Portuguese publisher Texto Editores chooses IBS Bookmaster

Portuguese publisher Texto Editores chooses IBS Bookmaster

IBS has signed an agreement with the Portuguese publishing house Texto Editores
to install IBS´ specialized software for the publishing industry - IBS
Bookmaster.  IBS will deliver software, services and hardware with a total order
value of approx. SEK 7 m.

Texto Editores is a leading Portuguese publisher with operations in Portugal,
Mozambique and Angola. To facilitate further growth, the company has decided to
implement a new business system that will enable increased control and process
automation. Texto Editores will be able to gain the benefits offered by the
automated IBS solutions for publishers and book distributors with functionality
for editorial and production, royalties, CRM, e-commerce, warehouse management,
third party logistics, financials and business intelligence. 

Texto Editores will have up to 300 users working on the system, hosted on a
central server in Portugal. 

“We are very excited about working together with Texto Editores, which will
bring additional experience and value into our offering tailored for the
Publishing Industry. IBS Bookmaster is the most widely used publishing system in
the world, with customers in 20 countries. It incorporates a variety of
industry-specific modules and features required by many publishers, such as
Royalties, Returns Management, Subscriptions, Editorial & Book Production,
Campaign Management, Academic Sales, Title Management, Title Restrictions,
dealing with buying groups and much more,” says Mike Irving, VP of IBS
Bookmaster. 

About Texto Editores
Texto Editores is one of Portugal's biggest publishing companies and is one of
the most important school book publishers in the Portuguese speaking world.
Since 2001, it began to publish in other fields such as sports, literature,
children´s books, food, humor and photography, among others. Texto Editores is
the Portuguese representative at EEPG (European Educational Publishers Group).
The company's quality Management Systems are certified by APCER according to ISO
9001: 2000 version. In 2007 Texto celebrates 30 years in publishing. Today,
Texto faces a new challenge as it integrates a recently created group which is
set to become the biggest publishing group of the Portuguese language. Read more
on www.textoeditores.com

For more information, please contact:

John Womack,Senior Vice President Communications and IR, IBS AB
Mobile: +46 (0)70 678 24 99
john.womack@ibs.net

Mike Irving, Vice President IBS Bookmaster
Mobile:+44 (0) 7775 697 006 
mike.irving@ibs.net



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