Digital Publishing News & Articles

Many have made predictions about what’s to come in 2012 on just about every topic. One in particular, about the future of the Internet, caught our attention.

Now that the iPad has become a respected media channel through which publishers design and publish online magazines, there’s more pressure for content systems to keep up with emerging technologies that influence how users interact and engage. WoodWing Software, known for its multi-platform tablet publishing platform, has announced a number of major new features for its reader apps for iOS and Android, as well as for its Content Delivery Service.

Expect to hear a lot about workflows this week. Info360 will be chockful of business solutions and initiatives designed to streamline and improve the processes that manage the way we work, communicate and make money within the enterprise.

One of the first announcements made by companies attending Info360 comes from InfoPrint Solutions, which will be among the vendors featured as a part of the On Demand, info360’s partner conference focused on transformational technologies for the digital publishing and printing industry.

As we wrap up Read an E-book Week, e-books continue to make headlines. As it turns out, while technology has made it possible to read many books from one device, publishers and other traditional venues of book distribution have yet to catch up.

Thanks to the iPad and other tablet devices, the publishing industry has been able to survive, even thrive. Of course in doing so, they’ve had to transform themselves away from print and toward electronic models. A recent study from Outsell’s Gilbane Group examined the ways in which the book publishing industry has evolved technologically over the past few years.

When Woodwing Software first created their digital magazine tools for the iPad, they had no way of foreseeing how the iPad would capture the hearts and minds of the world.

Recently, the Association of Online Publishers (AOP), an organization based in the UK that represents digital publishing companies that create original, branded, quality content, announced the recipients of its Digital Publishing Awards for 2010.

Quark (site, news) has been very busy this week, all in the name of digital publishing. At Untethered 2010, a digital media conference in New York that this year focused on Profitable Media in the Tablet Era, Quark announced a few initiatives aimed at making digital publishing more efficient for content creators and publishers across all platforms.
 

Are you a high or mid-level book publishing professional? Got something to say about eBooks and digital publishing? If so, CMSWire encourages you to participate in a “blueprint” survey from the Gilbane Group.

What’s a week without an iPad story? This week we approach the iPad from two perspectives -- from the purview of the mobile advertisers and magazine publishers. Both stand a great deal to gain from both the iPad itself and its proposed advertising model, iAd.

If the comments on the New York Times blog about VIVmag’s interactive iPad magazine are any indication, users are still having a hard time figuring out the usefulness of the infamous tablet device. But that hasn’t stopped technologists and innovators from designing interfaces and experiences specifically for the iPad.

When we last spoke with Jim Gaines, we talked about the future of digital publishing. Recently we had the opportunity to catch up with Gaines again. This time, he had a story to tell.

On Wednesday, February 4 at 11:00 a.m. EST join Nstein Technologies for the first in their new four-part webinar series, Double Down on Digital. Nstein develops and markets multilingual solutions that power digital publishing for the newspapers, magazines and content-driven organizations.

Nstein, provider of digital publishing solutions for media and publishing companies has officially released the latest version of their Web Content Management System. Version 4 boasts a number of editorial enhancements not the least of which is full integration with the Nstein TME — text mining engine and DAM — Digital Asset Management System.