Bookshout

Their main offices were based in Dallas, TX, Fort Wayne, IN and New York, NY.

It was the largest provider of bulk eBook distribution in the world[1] and worked with all of the major U.S. publishing houses including HarperCollins,[2] Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Penguin Random House, Perseus, Simon & Schuster, Wiley, Chronicle Books, Hachette Publishing Group, and Workman.

[citation needed] Bookshout was founded by Jason Illian, Rick Chatham, and Joshua Stone in 2010 as a social media app.

BookShout’s initial business model was about facilitating bulk eBook distribution and providing publishers with customizable direct-to-consumer digital storefronts.

[3][4] BookShout’s business services partnered with corporations like; the Hearst Corporation, Intel, Microsoft, Sony, Cheerios,[5] T-Mobile,[6] CareerBuilder, Cisco, The Wall Street Journal,[7] Salesforce, Google, Deloitte and others to aide in the marketing and promotion of products and books.