Thieme Bookshelf App Now Available

New York, NY, June 16, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Thieme has just released Thieme Bookshelf, the free companion app to Thieme's English language E-Book Store (ebookstore.thieme.com), where customers can choose from among hundreds of e-books offering the latest medical content. The bookshelf enables customers to easily browse through the contents of the store or their personal library, tap a book to open it, flip through pages with a swipe or a tap, and bookmark or add notes to their favorite passages within a book. The app is available on the iTunes App Store http://itunes.apple.com/app/thieme-bookshelf/id509171227?mt=8

Thieme now has over 500 ebooks available on ebookstore.thieme.com, and the collection will continuously grow as new titles are published. Once users download Thieme Bookshelf to their iPad and enter their ebookstore account details, they will automatically have access to all the ebooks they’ve purchased from Thieme’s E-Book Store and be able to access new ones as they purchase them.

About Thieme

Thieme Publishing Group is a scientific and medical publishing house employing more than 950 people and maintaining offices in seven cities, including New York, Delhi, Stuttgart and three other locations in Germany. Founded in 1886, the Thieme name has become synonymous with high quality and excellence in medical and scientific publishing. Today, Thieme is the market leading publisher of neurosurgical content and holds strong market positions in orthopedics, radiology, anatomy and chemistry, among other specialties. Thieme publishes 137 peer-reviewed journals and over 500 new books annually. The company also has a rapidly growing array of web-based products in medicine and science. State-of-the-art online products include Thieme eJournals, Thieme Electronic Book Library, the medical student website WinkingSkull.com and Thieme Teaching Assistant, an innovative web-based platform for faculty. For more information about Thieme, please visit www.thieme.com.­­