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Questia provides you with an innovative route into the coveted student market.
Questia offers publishers an opportunity to access the student market in an entirely new and revolutionary way. Questia generates additional revenue from existing and out-of-print titles, builds valuable brand awareness that can increase hard copy sales, and provides you with an added measure of control over your intellectual property.

When students borrow a library book or photocopy pages directly from texts, you lose an opportunity for revenue. The Questia business model captures that opportunity. Students and other users are able to search the Questia collection at no charge, but they cannot access a single page without paying a subscription fee. Publishers receive revenue from these subscription fees each time a student views a page of one of your works. In addition, publishers receive revenue reports on a title-by-title basis so that they can determine which of their works are in the greatest demand.

Questia is also committed to protecting your intellectual property. The digitization of each work is high quality, and the electronic versions mirror the print versions to maintain book structure and pagination. All texts are presented in their entirety, with the title of the work, author, and publisher displayed with each page view. In addition, every measure is taken to protect your intellectual capital from piracy. All publications are stored in our protected database and are served to the subscriber one page at a time. When they request a new page, the previous page is replaced in their viewer. This is very different from ebook or PDF technology where the entire publication is provided in electronic form to the user. Questia also does not provide the ability for the subscriber to print the publication as a whole but only for the single page they are viewing, very much akin to making a photocopy from a book - a typically laborious process.

Questia is an indispensable research service for students and a valuable and rewarding revenue source for publishers. We would love to tell you more about Questia and how your books and journals can become part of the Questia library. To contact us, please click here.