Publication Standards Part 1: The Fragmented Present

This is a great blog post by Nick Disabato on the need for standards and semantic markup, new roles and responsibilities, and big changes in the publishing industry. It’s a great roundup of some of the many issues facing publishing (people, processes, change and technology). Here’s a snippet: “There are key distinctions between ebook publishing’s [...]

From Publishing 1.0 to Publishing 3.0 – Catalog Production Breaks New Ground

By Jörg Oyen The Disciplines of Print and Web are Becoming One; In Catalog Publishing, Formerly Separate Production Processes are Merging The war between traditional and new media is over. The discord and associated “me print – you Web” pigeon-holing will soon be history, made possible by continuously configurable production processes in publishing. Challenge: Keeping [...]

Publishing in 2009: Are You Ready for the Challenge?

If You’re Rethinking Your Business Model, Investing in Dynamic Publishing Might be the Smartest Move You Make this Year. There’s nothing quite like an approaching recession to prompt corporate managers to rethink their strategies and move ahead with some clever investments. In this respect, dynamic publishing is increasingly perceived as one of the most effective [...]

Web-to-Print: Publishing without Borders

By Bernd Zipper Precise. Highly individual. Flexible. Intelligent. A listing of the advantages of Web-to-print sooner or later always returns to these four terms. But what exactly is “Web-to-print”? In a nutshell, Web-to-print is the dynamic generation of print templates using an online service that also accommodates relevant business processes. To explain it a bit [...]