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A Bekka Books Selects knk Publishing Software

November 17, 2011 By

A Beka Book, Inc. of Pensacola, Florida has selected knk Business Software, AG of Kiel, Germany to supply their advanced integrated publishing software.  A Beka Book provides Christian Schools and home schools with outstanding curriculum and textbooks built on a foundation of academic excellence and Christian character training.

The scope of the project “represents a breakthrough in the US market” said knk CEO Knut Nicholas Krause. Knk has been working with partners in the US market since 2008, business has grown to the point that a New Jersey office is being established with a focus on the availability of US based support.

The selected knk software covers publishing program planning, media production, CRM and in depth sales functionality and will be used by about 200 users. A key factor in the selection was that knk has developed commercial software that supports both physical print products like books and digital delivered products in many formats.

knk Business Software was established in 1988 and has grown to over 150 customers around the world.  It is the world’s only Microsoft Certified and fully integrated publishing software. Currently knk is based in nine locations in Germany, France and the US and employs 120 professionals supporting Publishers.

 More details at: www.knkpublishingsoftware.com

 Contact Information:

 knk Business Software, AG

Contacts:   

Nicholas Krause, Phone: +49 431 579 720, knk@knk.com

Bob Russell: 908-206-4599, brussell@knk.com (New Jersey, USA)

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Klopotek Rollouts in Japan, Korea and Taiwan

October 31, 2011 By
Early this summer 2011, PPM went live for the Elsevier Asia Pacific (APAC) locations of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. This is the second phase of Elsevier’s APAC PPM project for book publishing.The first phase of the project included Australia and India locations which went live in September 2010. This APAC Phase 2 rollout is an especially unique one in that APAC PPM users have the ability to type in their local language. In addition, Elsevier Application Management made some PPM configuration changes to add local language values to several drop down lists, such as Business Partner salutations and personal titles. Special promotional templates were created for APAC which populate with local language information from PPM and are exported using current PPM functionality.Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan join the more than 1,000 edit and read-only members of the global Elsevier PPM community.

If you’d like to receive more information about this project please email info@klopotek.com.

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ONIXEDIT Splitter – Splits Large ONIX Files

October 31, 2011 By

ONIXEDIT Splitter is free software that divides one large ONIX files into several smaller files.

“ONIX files may be huge sometimes. Huge enough to get Out of Memory errors when trying to validate it or just open it using your best XML editor or best of all, ONIXEDIT! For that reason, we took the time to create a free easy tool that is able to read a ONIX file of any size and any type and to split it in smaller files. We called it ONIXEDIT Splitter and it is available for everyone. Just go to this page and download the installer:

http://www.onixedit.com/en/Software/Other/ONIXEDITSplitter.aspx

It is absolutely free and you don’t even need to be a registered user to get it.”

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Cyberwolf Offers eBook Download Service

October 31, 2011 By

Cyberwolf, the developers of Acumen Book, is now offering an eBook download service to publishers. This service allows publishers to sell DRM protected eBooks directly to their customers. With eBooks protected by Adober Content Server (the same DRM used by Barnes & Nobles, Google and Sony eReaders) publishers can select the level of DRM that they want to use.

What is it?

The CyberWolf Download Service™ (CDS) allows you to sell DRM protected ebooks and digital content directly from your own ecommerce site. Your digital products are set up and maintained through our easy to use web-based interface.

The CDS uses Adobe® Content Server (ACS) technology to package either PDF or ePub files with DRM protections. Emerging as the standard for DRM protection in the publishing industry, ACS DRM is also supported by Barnes & Noble, Google Editions, and Simon & Schuster, among other industry players.

In addition to ACS DRM protections, the CDS offers a social DRM option that stamps a standard PDF prior to download with a predefined but dynamic message. Stamps appear on each PDF page in the location and formatting you select. Messages can include variables populated with order information, such as the name or email address of the purchaser. With the social DRM approach, there are no technological restrictions on your customer’s ability to share or copy content. Since content pages contain a stamp that identifies the specific purchaser, inappropriate use – such as posting content on a file sharing site – is less likely to occur.

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Regular Baptist Press Upgrades to Elan

October 31, 2011 By

Regular Baptist Press (RBP), a ministry of the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches based in Schaumburg, Illinois,  has agreed to upgrade their CISPUB system to Media Services Group’s SaaS version of Élan Book. This upgrade will provide RBP with licenses of Élan Book, Circ, Conference, CRM, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Élan web-based reporting. RBP has been a CISPUB customer since 2001.

Regular Baptist Press was founded to produce distinctively Baptist Sunday School curriculum based on the entire “counsel of God.” Biblical integrity and doctrinal soundness have remained RBP’s hallmarks for over fifty years. Today a growing number of churches rely on RBP for  ministry training, books, and resources that encourage maturity in Christ.

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Wayne State University Selects Virtusales

October 31, 2011 By

Wayne State University Press publishes and distributes scholarly books and journals and has approximately 850 titles in print. The press is part of Wayne State University, which is a research university with nearly 32,000 students.

Background

The Press’s current database (FMDB) is a FileMaker-based solution was first implemented in the mid-1990s. While in-house maintenance updates in 2003 and 2008 have stabilized and enhanced usability, FMDB can no longer keep up with the demands of a rapidly changing publishing world.

Requirements

Wayne State University required a web based turnkey, central publishing management solution to manage the workflow of publishing scholarly and trade books along with journals through acquisitions, business, editorial, design, production, sales and marketing.

Jane Hoehner, Director at Wayne State University discusses, ”the new system needs to integrate with internal and external systems to provide a framework for an evolving workflow and to improve the overall quality of data and information shared throughout the organization”.

The Solution

Virtusales’ fully hosted BiblioLite publishing system was selected. From a single web based integrated system Wayne State University Press will be able to manage the following functional areas:

  • Pre-acquisition costing, cost management, purchase ordering
  • Schedule management
  • Contracts and rights management
  • Editorial, bibliographic and marketing data management
  • Comprehensive reporting
  • Digital asset management
  • ONIX 2 & 3 feeds, website feeds and integration to finance and warehouse systems

Why Virtusales

Jane Hoehner, Director at Wayne State University explains, “After an extensive search and detailed study of available software systems BiblioLite stood out as the solution that would cover WSUP’s requirements. The fact that Virtusales provide a fully hosted solution with continual 6-8 weekly upgrades means we can stay up to date with the changing requirements of the industry and focus on our core competencies – publishing”.

Phil Turner, Chief Executive Officer of Virtusales added, “We are very excited to bring Wayne State University Press on as a customer. Smaller publishers have the same requirements as larger publishers and need to complete the same tasks in order to publish books. The challenge for smaller publishers is finding a system that they can afford and manage. BiblioLite provides the best of both worlds an enterprise wide publishing management system available as a fully managed service”.

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U.N. Chooses Publishing Technology’s Digital Platform

October 31, 2011 By

OXFORD, UK, 4th October 2011, Publishing Technology plc (LSE: PTO), the largest provider of software and services to the publishing industry, today announced the latest signing for its pub2web platform to build the United Nations eCollection.

One of Publishing Technology’s core solutions, pub2web provides custom web platforms, tailor made to any business model and any type of content.

Louise Tutton, Chief Operating Officer of Publishing Technology’s Online Division, comments, “With 40 new agreements so far this year, we are continuing to build on the success of our state-of-the-art solutions to the unique challenges of digital publishing. The new United Nations eCollection will take full advantage of the powerful combination of semantic web technologies and sophisticated information commerce capabilities available within the pub2web platform as standard. This combination allows for ease of breaking down content silos and moving away from the traditional containers of journals, books and reference works while allowing publishers to experiment with new business models (such as Patron-Driven Acquisition) and to deliver an enriched user experience.”

The United Nations eCollection will be built on a custom interface on the pub2web platform that will allow cross searching, discovery and sales via pay-per-view or by subscription for over 1,500 publications produced by the international organization, and all new and forthcoming titles, including ebooks,reports, periodicals and selected grey literature.

The United Nations eCollection will benefit library customers and patrons in higher education institutions, as well as commercial and individual end-users with centralized delivery of online content.

Valentina Kalk in the Department of Public Information of the United Nations commented, “Delivering a wealth of titles and serial publications to our readers worldwide via a single multilingual online platform is very exciting. It is increasingly important that we make information more discoverable and searchable in the easiest and most environmentally-friendly ways possible. Publishing Technology has the expertise to deliver this for us and we very much look forward to working with them in this venture.”

Read the Press Release

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IBS Roadmap 2011

June 15, 2011 By

IBS Bookmaster book publishing software roadmap highlights;

1. IT development efforts are focused on support for digital publishing and a transition to a .NET code base.

2.IBS Bookmaster is moving to a .NET code base with all new development in .NET.

3. The first .NET module will be rights, royalties and permissions followed by production management. Both of which will run on an MS SQL database and can run standalone or as a part of the IBS Bookmaster ERP suite. The rights, royalties and permissions module will also be available as a hosted managed service. With the IBS rights and royalties module the user is free to create new royalty rules; i.e. you don’t have to ask (or pay) the software company to add a new rule rule to handle a new clause in your royalty contract.

4. IBS completed a revamp of their CRM module that integrated their text book adoption tracking functionality with the CRM module. This update is being released at the end of June.

5. IBS released; in March 2011, an update that offers seemless integration of order processing for physical books and eBooks. You can handle orders that have both types of products on the same invoice. They system automatically sends the eBook line items to your digital distributor, POD line items to your POD printer and standard inventory line items to the warehouse for processing.

Read more about the IBS Book Publishing Software roadmap.

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Book Publishing Industry Statistics 2011

June 11, 2011 By

Source: BISG – Book Industry Study Group – www.bisg.org

The book publishing industry in the United States is comprised of about 2,600 book publishers that have sales of $100K or more. Of these 1,100 have revenue of $500K or more.

Revenue

  • Greater than$500M: 10 publishing companies
  • $100M to $500M: 20
  • $25M to $100M: 70
  • $5M to $25M: 200
  • $0.5M to $5M: 800
  • $0.1M to $0.5M: 1500

Of the 1,000 publishers with sales of $500K to $25M I estimate that Acumen has a 18% market share and Cats Pajamas from Media Solutions a 15% market share.

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MSG offers Informer Web Reporting

June 9, 2011 By

Phoenix – June 8, 2011 – Media Services Group (MSGL), a leading developer of integrated publishing and event management software announced a Partnership with Entrinsik to offer MSGL clients Informer Web Reporting, an award-winning web-based reporting and analysis solution used by tens of thousands around the world.

By replacing their embedded reporting engine with Informer, companies that rely on the Élan™ Framework to run their publishing business now have a single point of access to reports where they can query any data source, regardless of where it is stored, in real time. And self-service report customization and ad-hoc analysis capabilities for end users ensure the information is presented based on individual needs.

“Embedding Informer into our product offering gives us the ability to integrate with legacy systems like SystemBuilder and push data to the web,” explains Dan Pellegrini, President of the Publishing Division at Media Services Group. “With Informer, we can meet the immediate and future demands that our SaaS and turnkey customers have for web-based reporting without pulling developers off your core application.”

“We are excited to partner with Media Services Group to enable media companies to capitalize on the latest web technologies that can now fully integrate with the back-office,” explains Doug Leupen, President and CEO at Entrinsik. “Informer’s plug-in architecture is designed to be easily embeddable, enabling Partners to quickly and seamlessly integrate web-based reporting capabilities into their existing software while providing a consistent user experience for customers.”

About Media Services Group

Media Services Group is a full-service publishing software company, offering integrated solutions for global media businesses. Today more than 10,000 publishing professionals actively use and depend on MSGL applications at over 400 media companies around the world. In June of 2007, MSGL announced the release of the new Élan™ Framework, inaugurating a new generation of industry-focused software built to support the latest trends and technologies in publishing. More information online at www.msgl.com

About Entrinsik, Inc.

Since 1984, Entrinsik Inc. has been developing, implementing, and supporting information management solutions that enable organizations to maximize performance and improve bottom lines. Entrinsik’s Informer software is an innovative, award-winning, intuitive operational business intelligence solution used by tens of thousands around the world. With an interactive web-based interface, Informer creates a self-service operational BI environment where users can customize reports and perform multi-database, on demand analyses without IT assistance. Entrinsik is headquartered in Raleigh, NC. For a demonstration of Informer or a free trial, call us today at 888-703-0016 or visit www.entrinsik.com .

Screenshots from Informer Web

01. Generate reports from multiple data sources

02. Link fields between different data sources

03. Move fields with a simple drag and drop

04. Export reports in multiple formats

 

 

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