Value Chain International - Publishing Solutions

• Create, develop, manage and publish your Intellectual Property
• Transform your content to leverage digital opportunities
• Protect, diversify and increase your revenue streams

Publishing Solutions that Deliver Digital content:

• In media neutral output in all formats
• Available for promotion, publicity, review and distribution
• Enabling distribution feeds to aggregators, retailers and for direct sales
• Enabling distribution to POD services
• Secured within an asset repository

 Publishing Solutions that Reduce Cost:

• XML based pre press composition, removes the duplicate cost of conversion and reduces the cost against conventional typesetting.
• Rich XML based conversion ensures multiple eformats can be delivered simultaneously along with the pre-press composition
• The provision of total outsourced and optimized services tailored to fit the individual publisher.

Publishing Solutions that Increase Sales:

• Maximizing digital content to support all sales, promotions, marketing, publicity and rights sales.

• Offering a choice of digital formats

• Supporting, through VCIL’s eCompile function, the sale of chapters, fragments and customised books

• Enabling the publisher to react quickly to market developments.

• Providing ONIX compliant ‘rich’ metedata feeds to the market to sell both physical and digital titles.

• Enabling the servicing of the ‘long tail’ with minimal investment

We are very excited about Biz/ed premier: it offers students and libraries tremendous breadth of information, plus a wealth of features to make online learning more productive and enjoyable.  24x7 convenience alleviates the burden of travelling to the library and searching for textbooks, leaving more time for productive learning” says Tom Davy, CEO for Thomson Learning EMEA.