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About OBS No longer is the publishing business only about selling printed products. As the industry's traditional market base-along with millions of other potential customers-turns to the Internet for information, entertainment, self-expression, and community, publishers must both take advantage of the new medium's bountiful opportunities and recognize its risks. Successful online publishing means building relationships and enabling your content to grow and change in response to use. To maintain and enrich your essential resources-your customers, authors, and readers-while doing business in the volatile online environment, you need to avoid getting sidetracked into a software quagmire. OBS has a strategy. From creative concept to business model development, software specification, information design and training, OBS helps you realize your "content imperative." First, we identify existing content that may be "trapped" in its paper cocoon, then we help you reach profitable new online markets, with the speed your online readers demand. You can trust OBS's 25-year history of innovation and accomplishment. Consider some of our "firsts" from the early days of the Internet: Our company began as a division of Editorial Inc (founded in 1982), and was incorporated in 1994 as Online BookStore (OBS), Ltd. In 1996, "Online BookStore" became "Open Book Systems, " reflecting our mission: to harness the Internet as a revolutionary publishing platform and educational environment, while maintaining the high standards of accuracy and aesthetics that are critical to the traditional, paper-based publishing industry. We also have our own imprint, Protean Press. Located in Rockport, Massachusetts, OBS is a privately held, independent publishing services company.