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By Jabin White
About Jabin
Jabin White is Director of Strategic Content for Wolters Kluwer (WK) Health's Professional & Education (P&E) Division. He is responsible for advising WK's publishing teams on relevant technologies, collaboratively helping to determine product opportunities, and spearheading P&E's digital content initiatives.
With a heavy background in XML theory and practice, White has spent most of his career evangelizing the benefits of markup languages and related technologies, including content management, workflow enhancements, and authoring tools. Prior to joining WK, White served as Vice President, STM Sales for Scope eKnowledge Center, and VP of Product Development at Silverchair, Inc., a leading developer of information solutions for health care publishers.
He also spent five years as Executive Director of Electronic Production at Elsevier, serving the Health Sciences Division. White started in health sciences publishing as an editorial assistant at Current Medicine and has held electronic publishing positions at Mosby, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, and Unbound Medicine. He is a graduate of Wake Forest University with a BA in history and has a Masters in Business Administration at Pennsylvania State University.
The Business of Doing Books
The New Arts of Book Building: Challenges for Authors, Editors and Producers (Part Two)
Aug 23, 2010In part one of this discussion, I discussed how in the word “book,” and in the various ways...
Michael Weinstein's Publishing Panorama
It Was Bound to Happen
Aug 17, 2010As reported in The New York Times last week, a major publisher (Little, Brown) is taking its first...
Janet Spavlik's The Next Chapter
Confessions of a Twitter Contest Addict: What You Can Learn From My Addiction
Jun 15, 2010Hello, my name is Janet. And I am addicted to Twitter contests.
I swear I haven't always...
XML Is Here to Stay, Part Deux (Attack of the Small Publisher)
In my last post, I wrote about—heck, I guaranteed—that XML wasn’t going anywhere. I’m usually not such a big trash talker, but I firmly believe this—mostly because you can use XML to future-proof content, as well as the fact that putting any structured tagging in your content could be leveraged, even if XML goes away. Which it won’t (I know, nice English).
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XML Is Here to Stay (I Promise)
A few years back, I was giving a presentation about all the wonderful things our company was going to be able to do with XML, and that we should get to it. Only thing was, our company was in the midst of being acquired by a major Dutch company that had a pretty strong reputation in their handling of XML (names have been omitted to protect the innocent).
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Cynicism Is Relative
I had a lot of fun last week speaking at the SIIA’s Brown Bag series on a panel called “Beyond the eBook” with a few colleagues, new and old (the relationships, not the people). But there was an interesting element to it that I thought was funny, and would like to share.
With tongue planted firmly in cheek, I quickly became labeled as the “curmudgeon” or “technology cynic” because of a number of factors, all of them self-inflicted. Again, it was all good natured, but my unwillingness... Read More >>
With tongue planted firmly in cheek, I quickly became labeled as the “curmudgeon” or “technology cynic” because of a number of factors, all of them self-inflicted. Again, it was all good natured, but my unwillingness... Read More >>
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The Necessity of Use Cases
Back during Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign, advisor James Carville famously kept a sign in his office that said: “It’s the economy, stupid.” It served to keep the campaign focused, despite the many distractions of the campaign, on an issue that their polling showed mattered MOST to most people. It was an offshoot of the KISS principle: Keep it Simple, Stupid (how come all slogans seem to assume I’m stupid?).
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Print vs. Digital Debate -- Was it Over When the Germans Bombed Pearl Harbor?
There is no shortage of opinions when it comes to people’s perceptions of “print vs. digital” in the area of information consumption, and books in particular. There are extreme opinions on both sides – print is dead vs. print will never go away – and like a lot of debates, the truth is probably somewhere in between.
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