Workflow

NEWTON, Ill.—January 7, 2016—Total Printing Systems has upgraded from a Kodak Nexpress 2100 Plus to a Kodak Nexpress SX3300. The installation started right before Christmas and the press was up and running by December 30th. This upgrade will provide multiple benefits to our clients. “The 2100 Plus was a great press for us for the…

Going mobile is more than just big pages fitting on tiny screens. Mobile requires content to be organized so that it can be quickly served up in bite-sized chunks into any of the myriad forms that users might want, because today’s consumers want their content their way, on their devices, and in their timeframes. Publishers…

Last week, Alliant International University (AIU), a private US college announced an intriguing scholarly publishing partnership with Author Solutions, the self-publishing arm of Penguin Random House. Together the two organizations said they were creating Alliant Press, a university press that would be built using Author Solutions infrastructure and be dedicated to publishing “academic works of…

HUNT VALLEY, Md.—September 28, 2015—Sheridan has expanded its automated print management system, Sheridan Select, to include a self‐service component granting publishers the ability to upload a book or journal title and place a print‐on‐demand (POD) order within a single transaction. Upon logging in to the Sheridan Select portal and initiating a POD order, publishers are…

MONTREAL—September 24, 2015—An exclusive agreement between Marquis and SoBook will create a veritable transatlantic technology bridge between Europe and North America this October and simplify publishers' work by delivering printed books in far shorter time. In fact, publishers will now have a tool that will enable them to increase the number of titles available in…

Big ideas often come in small packages -- sometimes just the size of a book, or a regional university press, or in the space of a 75-minute brainstorming session with creative publishing professionals. For many university presses, finding ways to compensate for limited commercial scale is becoming mission-critical...

There is a simpler approach that publishers can implement to improve their book marketing, and it costs next to nothing to execute.

Hear a brief overview of the digital book printing market in 2015.

Pressures on revenues and margins have made many publishers ask themselves if their content workflows can be fine-tuned to "do more with less".

Unfortunately, an early focus on headcount savings can undermine your chances of actually getting good things done. You can't improve workflows if the people you need to make them better are thinking that success means a trip to unemployment.

It's better to ask relevant operational questions, particularly ones like "Is my workflow getting in the way of my overall responsiveness?" Frequently, the answer to that question is a resounding "yes"

The most reliable digital workflows are transparent: everyone who uses them to create content knows how and why things work the way they do. The most reliable digital workflows are also simple and predictable. Organizing a workflow to be transparent and simple starts with deliberate planning.

For a project that examined the value of XML workflows in publishing, Laura Dawson and I assembled a checklist for publishers looking to create a simple, effective digital workflow.