Amazon today launched the Brazil Kindle Store (www.amazon.com.br) with the largest selection of the most popular books, including the most Veja best sellers and lowest prices of any eBookstore in Brazil. The Brazil Kindle Store offers over 1.4 million books, now available to Brazilian customers priced in Brazilian Reais (R$), including more than 13,000 Portuguese-language books, 49 of 60 Veja best sellers—the most of any digital bookstore—and the most free books in Portuguese. In addition, Amazon announced that Kindle—the world’s #1 best-selling e-reader for five years running—will go on sale in Brazil in the coming weeks with a suggested retail price of R$299. For more information, and to begin shopping in the Kindle Store, visit www.amazon.com.br.

“We are excited to launch this new Kindle Store for Brazilian customers, offering the most popular best-selling books from many great Brazilian authors, all priced in Reais,” said Alexandre Szapiro, Vice President of Kindle, Amazon.com.br. “We’re also bringing our latest generation Kindle—the best-selling e-reader in the world—to Brazilian customers at a suggested retail price of R$299 in the coming weeks. With the launch of free Kindle reading apps in Portuguese, anyone who has an Android phone, Android tablet, iPhone or iPad, PC or Mac, can start reading Kindle books today.”

New Brazil Kindle Store

The Brazil Kindle Store features over 1.4 million titles, including the most best sellers and the lowest prices of any eBookstore in Brazil. The Brazil Kindle Store sells works from a range of Brazilian authors like Jorge Amado, Lya Luft and Martha Medeiros. Readers will also find eBooks that are only available in the Kindle Store such as the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, and 13 titles by the best-selling and iconic Paulo Coelho, as well as his never-before-published short non-fiction piece “O Livro dos Manuais.” Other exclusive titles include books by poet Vinícius de Moraes—whose work has never been available digitally before—screenplay writer and journalist Nelson Rodrigues and a free book by the cartoonist Ziraldo. The store also has over 1,500 free Portuguese-language books available to download and read on Kindle and free Kindle reading apps.

Amazon.com.br also today announced that independent authors and publishers are now able to make their books available in the new Brazil Kindle Store using Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) (http://kdp.amazon.com.br). Brazilian independent authors and publishers can utilize the new Portuguese-language KDP website to make their books available in Brazil, and more than 175 countries worldwide. They can also price their books and receive payments in Brazilian Reais for their sales in Brazil, all while retaining control of their content and copyrights.

Free Kindle Reading Apps—“Buy Once, Read Everywhere”

Amazon is also introducing free Kindle reading apps in Portuguese for all of the most popular devices and platforms, including iPhone, iPad, Android phones, Android tablets, PC and Mac. With the free Kindle apps, customers “Buy Once, Read Everywhere”—Amazon’s Whispersync technology automatically synchronizes a customer’s Kindle library, as well as their notes, highlights and last page read across all of their Kindle devices and Kindle apps. Customers can easily access the Kindle Store directly from their phone, tablet or computer web browser, with all of the features customers love about shopping on Amazon, including personalized recommendations, instant one-click buying and customer reviews, and then start reading Kindle books on their iPhone, iPad, Android tablets and phones, PCs and Macs.

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE:JWa, JWb) announced today the acquisition of assets from Stevenson, Inc., a leading resource for newsletters and online events in fundraising, nonprofit management, and communications. These assets include six well-respected newsletters and a variety of online events and special reports. The acquisition will enable Wiley to expand its already robust strategy for digital delivery of content to the growing nonprofit market globally.

“The acquisition of the Stevenson assets enables Wiley to increase our presence in this important category and provide practical, must-have information to nonprofit professionals,” said Debra Hunter, President, Jossey-Bass, and Vice President, Wiley Professional Development.

A key title in the acquisition is The Major Gifts Report, which is now in its fourteenth year of publication. This monthly publication describes ways for nonprofits to approach organizations for large, charitable gifts, along with how to use them most beneficially. Additional titles acquired by Wiley from Stevenson, Inc. include: The Volunteer Management Report, Successful Fundraising, The Nonprofit Communications Report, The Membership Management Report, and Special Events Galore.

“We are confident that under Wiley’s capable direction the newsletters and online events will continue to be successful and make significant contributions to the nonprofit sector,” said Scott Stevenson, President and CEO of Stevenson, Inc.

Wiley has a 30-year history of serving the professional development and hands-on resource needs of nonprofit professionals. Through its nonprofit programs, Wiley and its Jossey-Bass brand publish more than 60 books and a dozen subscription products a year and facilitate a growing network of nonprofit leaders at www.NonprofitCommunity.com. Key authors include Bruce Hopkins, Charles Bronfman, Leslie R. Crutchfield, Heather Grant and Beth Kanter. Key subscription products include Leader to Leader, Board and Administrator, Bruce R. Hopkins Nonprofit Counsel, Corporate Philanthropy Report, Federal Grants & Contracts, Nonprofit Business Advisor and Nonprofit Management and Leadership.

Thomson Reuters today announced the latest version of Thomson Reuters ProViewtm, the leading professional eReader platform. The new version of ProView provides enhanced navigation, content organization and table displays.

Thomson Reuters ProView is the first eReader platform specifically built for professional use, with advanced features such as full-text search, secured notes and highlights, and content updating. It is available for iPad® and for Windows® and Mac® computers, as well as Android® tablets in select markets. ProView titles are currently available in the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, Spain, Brazil, Argentina and Chile.

The new features provide more ways to navigate and search ProView content, providing greater context of information across titles and libraries. New features in Thomson Reuters ProView version 1.5 include:

• Color-Coded Notes & Highlights
Choose from a variety of colors to organize notes and highlights

• Compass Feature
Navigation aid provides at-a-glance orientation within a title

• Enhanced Running Header
Allows users to see the full hierarchy of where they are within a title

• Inline Tabular Display
Enhanced ability to display tables

• Search Across Libraries
Searches return results from any downloaded book within a user’s ProView library

• A-Z Index
Complete index of content

• Table of Contents Layering
Allows users to find what they need while keeping track of their search path

• Wordwheel Searching
New search functionality provides links to additional content

Availability of features may vary depending on specific titles and Thomson Reuters publishing brands.

“The new ProView features help keep this unique eReader platform at the head of today’s mobile technologies for professionals,” said Bob Schukai, global head, Mobile Technology, Thomson Reuters. “The new features improve the ability of users to find the exact reference information that they need quickly and effectively – anywhere, anytime. Now more than ever, ProView provides unmatched ease of use and efficiency for locating reference information while on the go, regardless of where that information exists within a particular section, title or even a user’s entire ProView library.”

Thomson Reuters ProView is a first-of-its-kind, professional-grade platform for the delivery and use anywhere, anytime of specialized Thomson Reuters content and productivity tools, including popular legal reference books from Thomson Reuters Westlaw™, Sweet & Maxwell, Carswell®, Aranzadi, La Ley, Editora Revista dos Tribunais, Abeledo Perrot, Legal Publishing Chile and Thomson Reuters Legal, Tax & Accounting ANZ; there are also leading reference books from the Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters.

Information on ProView and its numerous reference and professional development titles can be found at http://thomsonreuters.com/proview.

Thomson Reuters ProView is available for iPad users at the Apple® App Storesm, Android tablet users at Google Play and the Amazon Appstore for Android, and for Windows and Mac users at www.thomsonreuters.com/proview.

The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, released a white paper, “Managing Scholarly Meetings: Best Practices for Best-In-Class Proceedings,” detailing how ScholarOne AbstractsTM and meeting solutions can be used to streamline the efficiency of scholarly meeting planning and management.

Five of the top tips for scholarly meeting management across the preliminary, procedural and post-meeting phases of a conference are:

1. Use your management system to create a detailed project plan for the course of your meeting – this makes it easier to stick to deadlines and accommodate changes after deadlines

2. Collect author information as early as possible and track it in the management system, including audio-visual needs, recording permissions, copyrights, etc.
3. Utilize your abstract management system to schedule virtual planning sessions, saving time and money over in-person meetings

4. Manage all aspects of the abstract review process in your workflow management system, creating the ability for reviewers to move incorrectly categorized abstracts and easily manage the moving parts of the process

5. Create a multimedia archive of the meeting material by archiving abstracts, presentation slides, recordings and more

The full list of tips and best practices can be accessed in the white paper “Managing Scholarly Meetings: Best Practices for Best-In-Class Proceedings”.

Many associations utilize abstract management systems to organize the complicated process of executing successful scholarly meetings. In this paper, Thomson Reuters outlines easily implemented best practices designed to speed time to acceptance, decrease staff and volunteer time, improve communication, and create an exceptional meeting experience for speakers, attendees and members.
“Organizations do not necessarily need a large budget or endless resources to present a best-in-class meeting. What’s most important is how these resources are utilized and allocated,” said Keith MacGregor, executive vice president at Thomson Reuters. “Thomson Reuters has identified practical methods for organizations to host successful scholarly meetings through the use of our ScholarOne solutions.”

ScholarOne Abstracts and related meetings services offer organizations robust reporting and planning support for easier strategic decision-making on future conferences and provide users with the ability to stay ahead of the competition by extending valuable meeting content. ScholarOne Abstracts is the industry’s foremost technology for abstract management, enabling an efficient workflow solution that accelerates abstract acceptance and supports the leading research presentations at scholarly meetings and conferences.

ScholarOne ProceeedingsTM and ScholarOne Meeting ServicesTMare planning capabilities that compliment ScholarOne Abstracts by providing the most effective tools and strategies for meeting management. ScholarOne Proceedings provides a secure, cost-effective, end-to-end online solution for abstract and multi-phase proceedings submission, multiple review cycles, production output, and administrative control. ScholarOne Meeting Services offers an array of meeting solutions that complement the abstract including support tools that simplify the planning process to onsite promotion and content delivery.

To learn more about the capabilities within ScholarOne visit: http://scholarone.com/.

The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced a preview of its newest intelligence solution, Thomson Reuters Cortellis™ for Clinical Trials Intelligence. Scheduled for release in early 2013, this capability will provide drug development and clinical professionals with the critical information necessary to evaluate market opportunities, identify potential barriers, and establish informed decisions about clinical trial design and operations.

Cortellis for Clinical Trials Intelligence is the latest information solution offered through Thomson Reuters Cortellis, the industry’s premier Life Sciences information delivery platform. It has the broadest remit of any clinical trials database including a 45-year history of clinical outcomes, as well as the latest market competitive activity from established and emerging markets such as China, India and Brazil. It is the only solution that enables a customer to integrate their proprietary research data with comprehensive clinical trials protocols and outcomes, drug pipeline, biomarker, regulatory, financial and patent information from Thomson Reuters. Users will be able to extract more value from clinical trial data by utilizing the built-in analytics and visualizations, which can aid in strategic planning and decision-making, particularly for drug detox centers in LA where they can check the drug’s effect on patients.

“Cortellis for Clinical Trials Intelligence provides comprehensive clinical trial protocols and outcomes with global reach and integrates with other key intelligence areas – such as patents and literature – to allow for the broadest possible perspectives and actionable insights,” said Jon Brett-Harris, executive vice president at Thomson Reuters. “However, it is not just an information web portal. We are also providing multiple delivery options, such as dynamic real-time visualizations, iPad support and application programming interfaces to assist our customers in integrating it with their existing knowledge platforms and workflow solutions.”

Cortellis for Clinical Trials Intelligence optimizes critical clinical trial functions by equipping R&D strategists with knowledge that helps them discover market opportunities and potential barriers. This solution enables efficient searching for competing trials as well as identifying countries rich in target populations. By empowering clinical development teams to better understand trial design trends, Cortellis for Clinical Trials Intelligence allows them to design better and faster trials, while enabling marketing teams to pinpoint likely competitors.

The experts of Thomson Reuters’ professional services also utilize Cortellis for Clinical Trial Intelligence and the company’s other intelligence solutions – including translational medicine offerings and clinical development and portfolio strategy benchmarking – to support specific customer projects. Thomson Reuters has more than 15 years of experience supporting clinical development in the optimization of global clinical performance metrics, analysis and trending through its business, CMR International.

For more information on Cortellis, visit cortellis.thomsonreuters.com.

Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today the appointment of Christian Hartman, PharmD, MBA, FSMSO, as Director of Clinical Quality and Patient Safety for Pharmacy OneSource. In this role, Hartman is responsible for ensuring the optimal use and development of electronic clinical surveillance and quality improvement solutions.
“Dr. Hartman is an expert in the field of medication safety and has the knowledge and expertise necessary to support our team in the development and advancement of clinical surveillance and quality improvement solutions,” said Tim Gibbons, Vice President & General Manager, Pharmacy OneSource, Wolters Kluwer Health Clinical Solutions.

Dr. Hartman is founder and president of the American Society of Medication Safety Officers, a professional organization representing medication safety officers at healthcare organizations. He is also an assistant professor of medicine and nursing at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, an adjunct professor of pharmacy practice at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and the University of Rhode Island, and a clinical assistant professor of pharmacy practice at Northeastern University.

Recently, Dr. Hartman was appointed to chair a Special Commission to enhance oversight of Massachusetts’ pharmacy compounding industry. The Special Commission was created in the wake of a fatal fungal meningitis outbreak that was traced back to a Massachusetts-based compounding pharmacy.

Prior to joining Pharmacy OneSource, Dr. Hartman served as a senior research pharmacist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Previously, he was the first Medication Safety Officer at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., where he created the first accredited post-doctoral residency program in medication safety. During his tenure, UMass had three successful Joint Commission accreditation visits with no medication management RFIs. Dr. Hartman also converted the organization to electronic error reporting, increased error reporting by 150% and created an electronic solution to detect potential adverse drug events using the IHI Global Trigger tool and IHI 5 Million Lives: Preventing Harm from High Alert Medications.

Dr. Hartman received his bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in Boston and Doctorate from the University of Kansas. He completed a fellowship in patient safety at the Virginia Commonwealth University and holds an MBA from the Isenberg School of Management at UMass-Amherst.

Dr. Hartman has served as the president of Massachusetts Society of Health-System Pharmacists (MSHP) and MSHP Foundation, the ASHP Section Advisory Group for Medication Safety, ASHP Section Advisory Group for Compliance and Quality, and University HealthSystem Consortium Pharmacy Council Committee for Medication Use and Technology. Dr. Hartman is a Fellow of the American Society of Medication Safety Officers and currently serves on the Advisory Board to Decision Health Medication Management Error Elimination.