Out of House Managing Director Jo Bottrill will be at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October, meeting with colleagues, customers, suppliers and friends. Drop us a line to arrange a meeting.
Frankfurt is a vital event in the publishing calendar. We will be tweeting (twitter.com/jobottrill) from the event.
The epub logo from IDPF
EPUB is the open access, device independent ebook format being widely adopted across the publishing world. Here are three things you might not already know about EPUB files:
Out of House Publishing provides an excellent backlist to EPUB conversion service. More importantly, we understand the value in adopting structured content early on in the production process. Our XML first workflows mean that EPUB, XML and other digital outputs are delivered seamlessly along with print files.
Why continue converting print to digital when you can run both together? Contact us to find out more.
Today’s Apple announcement about its new e-book publishing platform and tools could well be the gamechanger we’ve long been expecting.
These tools all require digital content of course, and properly structured content has to be the key to really take advantage of the opportunities of digital publishing. Converting your backlist to structured content like XML and EPUB can really help you unleash the value sitting in your PDF and paper assets. And there are plenty of other platforms and formats out there – EPUB is still very much alive and well.
Use XML to future proof your content and you’ll be ready for the next big publishing announcement!
Contact us now to go digital!
Leaving Olympia, with armfuls of brochures, leaflets and business cards, my mind is teeming after just one day attending BETT. For 4 days Olympia is transformed into an Aladdin’s Cave of educational technology products to inspire teachers and students alike. There’s no doubt that today’s students are supported by a vast armoury of tools whose scope far outstrips that of the traditional textbook. As I walked from stand to stand, I asked myself ‘Who is writing the content to exploit this technology to the full?’ Faced with pupils who are technically savvy and expect to use technology for learning, it seems that teachers are responding by writing much of the content themselves. The dominance previously enjoyed by educational publishers is under threat and they are responding and rising to the challenge. Gone are the days when publishers would produce a textbook followed by an accompanying eBook of the same, almost as an afterthought, and shoehorn them both into a blended learning product. Australia and Spain are trailblazing – the former driven by geographical factors, the latter by political ones through the Escuela 2.0 program, whose goal is full digitalisation of Spanish classrooms. But to be successful today in this market, publishers have to consider how to maximise the utility of the print and digital media streams from the outset and to do that production workflows need to adapt.
At Out of House we recognise that markets and products are ever changing and we are making sure that we are well placed to support education publishers through the logistical challenges they face. We are developing robust workflows that will enable publishers to bring top-quality products to market at competitive prices.
Many publishers are adopting XML in their production workflows. Indeed, in the journals industry XML is pretty much ubiquitous. Jo Bottrill gives five good reasons for adopting XML into a production workflow.
Contact us to find out more about how Out of House Publishing can help you adopt XML into your production process.