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few years ago, HP execs said the company would compete head on with Amazon
Web Services in public cloud computing, a model in which businesses rent computing capacity from a
provider like Amazon, Microsoft or Google (GOOG) rather than building out more of their own data center capabilities.
Some publishers like to keep their name under the radar, but to name a
few: Verso Books (US, UK), Cappelen Damm (largest publisher in Norway), Elly's Choice (largest eBook subscription
service in The Netherlands), Firsty Group (large solutions
provider for the publishing industry in the UK), Profile Books (UK);
web shops from Finland to Spain and from Peru to Colombia.