Publishing Offerings

In this fast-changing digital world, we help the Publisher  maximize opportunities as they arise through a number of proven and leading edge offerings:
 

Composition - Helping create, develop, process , manage and publish your Intellectual Property

DX Flow^TM  Harmonising the development of content, metadata with the process workflow that ensures digital publishing from manuscript to delivery. This tool was developed to support complex collaborative editing processes that may involve highly fragmented works and where those involved are often outside the organisation. It can track thousands of content fragments, accessed by thousands of users, allowing dynamic rendering, uploading and seamless typesetting within a full XML end to end environment.  

DX Edit^TM Providing significant copyediting productivity  through the automated deconstruction of manuscript copy to create copy editing text file and editing by exception on all referential links, house styling, fonts, spelling, images etc. Once copy is approved will provide automated reconstruction into full XML typeset copy.

XML First^TM Development of fully XML tagged digital typeset content that supports production of both physical and digital titles through a single process not only obviating the need for traditional typesetting but automatically creating fully tagged digital content that is ready to exploit.

Digital Asset Management - a digital repository that supports repurposing, archiving and exploitation of digital content assets across the total publishing lifecycle and ensures the full control of all digital assets.

Distribution - Helping protect, diversify, market, promote and increase your revenue streams

DX Inspection^TM and DX Review^TM - removing waste from the inspection copy and publicity review processes and importantly nor substituting a digital replacement but providing an 'end to end' process offer that can close the marketing loop and offer publishers significant hard benefits.

Widgets - in partnership with Gardners Books we have created a range of 'View Inside^TM' and 'Hear Inside^TM' widgets that exploit our DX Reader and Flash technologies to cover the distribution of XML, epub, PDF, illustrated copy and audio widgets. We not only provide widgets but also the administration tools to effectively mange them

Active Widget^TM - This super widget acts as a 'trojan horse' and will radically change how marketing and bibliographic information is both distributed and accessed through a single point.

Digital Asset Distribution - a digital repository that automates and manages distribution of formatted and DRM secure digital content and context to digital aggregators, 'Print on Demand' and other third party suppliers. The DAD can hold both digital content and associated digital marketing collateral such as podcasts, videos and links to 3rd party digital materials.

Online Hosting and Distribution - presentation, sale and distribution of digital content in DRM secure, branded eContent ebookstore and elibrary portals that support direct channels. DX Reader^TM

some of the features:

eCompile is an eBook compiler service that allows users to create customized eBooks in the Adobe eBook Reader format. With eCompile they can browse and buy content of reference from a range of eBooks at cost-effective prices, organize them and create multiple customized reference eBooks, thus buying only the pages or chapters requisite for your research needs

eSubscribe provides flexible, cost-effective, online access to an extensive catalogue of intellectual content in the versatile DX Reader electronic format. Now users can subscribe to content of their choice for an elected time-frame, without inviting prohibitive costs. What’s more, they can add value to your subscription with the ‘DX Reader Research Book’ which enables you to add chapters or pages from your subscribed books, create your own notes, annotations etc. and create a rich, comprehensive information resource.

ePrint is a digital-to-print service that enables users to purchase print access to content. With ePrint, they can scale their purchases to cost-effective advantage, i.e. they can print an entire eBook, selective chapters or even single pages as determined appropriate by their reference needs.

eCopy prevents copyright infringements and ensures legitimate usage of authentic content, copying text or any other means of data transfer is not currently endorsed. eCopy is a cost-effective text reproduction service that allows the Ctrl C and Ctrl V operations for copying and pasting text. With eCopy users obtain a working soft copy of the page, which they can modify and print.

My Wallet is a users personal online account that can be used to finance their micropurchases at an eBookstore. It is a cost-effective, extremely convenient payment option and can be used to pay for their micropurchases.

Drop Ship Distribution - presentation, sale and distribution of digital content in DRM secure, branded eContent ebookstore and elibraRY portals that support direct channels. DX Reader^TM

Conversion - Helping transform your content to leverage digital opportunities

Content Factory VCIL has a service that has been developed of years to maximise the automation and efficiency of taking raw or formatted text and through a managed and proven process create digitally tagged content that has a accuracy level of 99%. This service enables the automated production of all common ebook formats; Abobe, MS Reader, Mobibook, OEB and ePub as well as Onix compliant metedata, POD formatted files, typeset ready copy. It is possible to create content in any XML format that can be mapped to our highly granular DX XML. 

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