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Tag: publishing industry
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The State of the eBook: Challenges, Successes, Trends
Thanks to mobile devices like the iPad and the Kindle, eReading and ebooks are growing in popularity, bringing new life to the publishing industry. A recent report illustrates just how far the eBook market has come in the past year. Aptara’s report, eBooks -- A Second Look Assessing the Latest Impact of eBooks on the Publishing Market, surveyed more than 600
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New Hosted Web Content Management Portal for Publishers
Do you want reach a wider audience in a search engine friendly capacity or increase revenue through paid subscriptions and advertising? Do you want to improve editorial efficiency with easy access to archives? If so, take a look at Pressmart’s new pay-as-you-go, hosted Web CMS product ePortal.
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Vasont CMS 12.1 Improves Multilingual Content Capabilities
Hitting version 12.1, Vasont (news, site) adds a store-once, use-many system to help make translation more efficient with its publishing-focused content management system. Vasont's last update hit back in April and now the multi-format publishing system for non-technical users gets another boost.
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A New Web CMS for the Publishing Industry
While the latest release from Georgia-based GMP Services has it eyes set firmly on the publishing industry -- perhaps recognizing current difficulties in the sector -- it is also targeting other professions that might be looking for an in-house Content Management System. Available starting next month, the new version of
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3 Strategies for Solving the Newspaper Problem
It has been awhile since we talked about newspapers. To recap, they are still struggling. And there is not a shortage of armchair publishers offering their ideologies and suggestions about how newspapers can regain their footing and rebuild their empire.
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W3C Reports on Future of Social Networking
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released a report on the future of social networking. Based on a workshop convened by the W3C in January, which attempted to bring together industry actors to foster discussion, analyze risks and opportunities of the social networking industry and define plans for the future of
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More Readers, More or Less Revenue
Good news! More people are reading newspapers. Twelve percent more, to be exact. According to a new report by Nielsen Online for the Newspaper Association of America, the average monthly unique audience figures for newspaper websites grew by nearly 7.3 million in 2008 to 67.
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iPublishCentral Web Publishing Attracts Publishers
This past October, we covered the launch of Impelys’s iPublish Central, a self-service e-content delivery platform for publishers. Since then, more than 60 publishers have come aboard, from India to Iceland, for the opportunity to promote their brands and titles by way of viral Web marketing.
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Six Apart Hit by Downturn, Lays Off 8% of Staff
Six Apart, the producer of blogging platform Movable Type, has announced layoffs of up to 8% of its full time staff. The company behind other popular products and services such as MT Pro, Vox and TypePad is a force in the blogging world. Movable Type is a very
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O'Reilly Aims to Educate Publishers on Digitization
It's safe to say, that many publishers don't know exactly what going digital entails. O'Reilly comes to the rescue by offering a free Webcast on Wednesday, November 12, at 1 p.m. EDT about What Publishers Need to Know About Digitization. The Webcast will last approximately 90 minutes.
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Check It Out: A Free Content Delivery Network
Coming off the heels of recently announced low cost and free hosted web application services such as Amazon's S3 and Google Apps, UK based digital asset delivery network Velocix have announced that they are releasing the world's first free content delivery network called Velocix Accelerator, currently in private
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