The company was founded in Silicon Valley in 1996 by software engineer and Fulbright Scholar Georgios Papadopoulos.

[1][2] The acquisition of eMeta in 2008[3] expanded Atypon’s product portfolio to include RightSuite, an enterprise access and commerce platform for the publishing and media industry.

[6] Atypon has grown internationally, expanding on its initial primary locations in Amman, Jordan, Athens, Greece, Oxford, UK, Santa Clara, CA, and New York, NY to a remote-first workplace Literatum is a hosted e-publishing platform that is used to manage, deliver and monetize online content.

Atypon’s clients include scholarly and academic publishers such as SAGE Publishing, Taylor & Francis and the University of Chicago Press; journals including The New England Journal of Medicine; professional societies such as the American Veterinary Medical Association and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists; and state and U.S. federal government agencies such as the National Institute of Environmental Health Services.

RightSuite is an enterprise access and commerce platform that provides authentication, authorization, administration, registration and licensing functionality for digital goods and services.