Icontact BV

On this day fifteen years ago, March 18, 2010 to be precise, our team at Icontact BV registered the domain name booxtream.com and registered BooXtream as an international trademark.

It took us a year and six days to release the very first version of the BooXtream watermarking web service, which was introduced on March 24, 2011 during the Ereading Event 2011 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. It turned out that securing books using advanced watermarks appealed to many visitors.

Our first local customers signed up within weeks, our first international contract was signed on November 11, 2011. That was quite a ride, because it was a really big publisher, selling ebooks about a young wizard to millions of customers.

Hardly 4 years later, during the London Book Fair 2015, we were awarded The Publishers Weekly International Book Industry Technology Supplier Award, which proved we were on the right track.

Today we serve hundreds of publishers and web shops worldwide on every continent (except Antarctica) selling ebooks direct to consumer. We're still onboarding new publishers and web shops every week. Our team is continuously improving our watermarking and personalisation technology, while keeping it fully compatible with the open EPUB standard. Ebooks watermarked with BooXtream remain fully accessible. We’re working on new features and our servers are processing millions of ebooks every year.

We would like to thank our customers for their trust in us and in our technology. In a world with several different ebook distribution and protection technologies, downloading EPUB files is still relevant. In these fifteen years, BooXtream became a household name for ebook watermarking and personalisation, aka Social DRM.

Want more info? DM or mail to [email protected]

ps If your ebook protection use case really requires hard DRM instead of watermarking, like with library lending, we advice to use Readium LCP from EDRLab (European Digital Reading Lab).

pps A new website will be launched shortly 😊


The London Book Fair Publishers Weekly

A big shout-out to the Icontact BV development team, responsible for the Audiyence white label audiobook app platform: Alexander van Meerten, Kevin de Harde, Vincent Jansen and Huub van de Pol: you rock guys!

Happy to see that our Audiyence white label audiobook app platform made it to the longlist of the Renew the Book 2024 awards!

More info: https://renewthebook.com/longlist/

Renew The Book Icontact BV InCT

On 26-1-1994 we registered our company name Icontact as a trademark. We've worked on a large number of bespoke software applications for the book trade, and after more than 30 years we're still going strong!

We've laid the groundwork for the audiobook infrastructure in The Netherlands and helped publishers and bookstores selling and . We've developed software to convert legacy and ONIX metadata formats. We've connected international retailers and libraries to distributors so they could work together. We've developed BooXtream, the worlds best 'Social DRM' toolkit and won a few prizes for it. We created Audiyence, a white label app platform for publishers and retailers who want to have their own branded app in the appstores. We've helped the largest publisher in the Netherlands with their metadata management system, and the list goes on.

We're currently working on a number of exiting new projects in the publishing world. Follow us on Facebook and we keep you posted.

Libris, the Dutch bookchain with 220 local bookstores, is using the Audiyence white label audiobook app for their a la carte audiobook sales. Consumers buying audiobooks on the Libris web site support their local bookstore. They are offered a smooth user experience thanks to the flexible API which perfectly connects the Audiyence back-end to the Libris e-commerce system.

Do you also want your own a la carte or unlimited subscription app? Download our slide deck here: http://eepurl.com/inZt1M

Audiyence, by Icontact BV, not only offers you best of breed native audiobook apps, but also a very powerful and user friendly CMS to maintain your own apps. Monetize your audiobooks for a very reasonable monthly fee with the Audiyence white label audiobook app platform.

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Proud to introduce another new Audiyence customer: Home Academy Publishers. They publish curated, high-quality courses for everyone who is passionate about learning at home or on the go. These courses are offered for a fixed monthly fee via the Home Academy Club unlimited subscription service and also sold 'à la carte' as digital downloads.
The Audiyence white label audiobook platform supports this unique combination of subscription and a la carte out of the box.

If you want to offer your own a la carte or unlimited subscription audiobook service direct to consumer (D2C), we've got the technology for you.
Want to know more about Audiyence? Request our slide deck: eepurl.com/inZt1M

With the Audiyence white label audio platform, it’s possible for a publisher to offer their own branded or a la carte platform without the high development costs for apps and CMS.

Want to know more?
Meet Huub van de Pol and Alexander van Meerten from Icontact BV, creators of Audiyence and BooXtream at the The London Book Fair. No stand this year, but still some appointment slots available. You can also download the Audiyence slide deck, which includes pricing info:

Slide deck/pricing: eepurl.com/inZt1M
Make an appointment: koalendar.com/e/icontact/