| Vol.
4, Issue 7 |
July 15th 2002
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HEADLINES
INSIDE STORY
EXTRA!
OTHER
NEWS
ASIDES
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BEST
OF DCL-NEWS
COVER
STORY:
Expert Opinion
XML
Is King, interview with Jabin White
Date: 7/15/2002,
DCLnews Exclusive
 Jabin
White, Executive Director
of Electronic Production for Health Sciences at
Elsevier Science, says he would be scared to consider the future
of scientific and medical publishing without XML...
 Find
out why at:
http://www.dclab.com/jabin_white.asp
Click
here to read last month's
Expert Opinion from Bill Kasdorf of Impressions Book &
Journal Services, who reveals how XML has turned fierce
publishing competitors into creative collaborators...
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Contents
INSIDE
STORY:
Robots
Tend Library Stacks
Date:
7/15/2002, DCLnews Inside Story
 Robots
could soon be selecting and scanning library books on
request for delivery over the Internet. They could also be used
to convert large volumes of printed material
into digital format...
Read
more at:
http://www.dclab.com/library_robots.asp
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>>>EXTRA!!!
eBookWeb
Nominated For Web Award
 eBookWeb
was recently one of three websites nominated for the Reader's
Choice, Favorite E-Book Related Websites award. Winners and finalists will be announced on Nov. 2 at the Digital Literature
Festival in Santa Barbara, California. The
site gets 30,000 unique hits a month. And if you're involved
in e-book publishing, a writer or reader, the site is
well worth a visit. You'll find the latest e-book related news
and articles, opinion, and much more...
Go
to:
[link no longer available]
Lori
Barber Joins DCL As New
Business Development Manager
 Lori
Barber
has just joined Data
Conversion Laboratory as Business Development Manager in
the STM Division.
She will be working with publishers of scholarly journals, books, and
electronic products in the scientific, technical, and medical world. Previously,
she was a Client Development Manager at
ScholarOne, where she sold Web-based applications in the STM market."Being with DCL is exciting,"
she says, "because structured documents are the core of
any digital workflow. Traditional print workflows are batch processes, but
users of books and journals are demanding faster and article-based rather
than issue-based publication. By structuring documents upstream in the
workflow, publishers get the flexibility to meet these demands."
Lori also has
an interesting claim
to fame:
She may be the world's only XML professional who owns a ferret
called George ;-)
 DCL
Technical Library
Don't
forget to visit our technical library for insider information
about XML and SGML, e-books, technical documentation, and scientific
and educational publishing.
Go
to: http:www.dclab.com/dcllibrary.asp
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OTHER
NEWS:
Adobe
Add Lending Features To PDF Delivery
Date:
7/13/2002, E-Content
Adobe
Systems is marketing a new software system, called Adobe
Content Server 3.0, that allows libraries to distribute PDF e-books
or other digital materials securely. Through
a library's web interface, patrons can check-out and receive
e-books, but don't need to be connected to the Internet to read them.
Libraries can also set usage rules so that e-books expire after
a certain amount of time or on a specified date. When the lending license
expires, the e-book is automatically disabled on the patron's
computer and returned to the library catalog.
It's a powerful
solution to concerns about digital rights management.
For example, this system could be
used by e-book self-publishers. They could allow potential buyers
to download the e-book title and view it for a set number of days (or
even hours). Readers then either buy a copy or the e-book will self-destruct
- much like the Mission Impossible tapes!
To find out more, go to:
http://www.adobe.com/products/contentserver/main.html
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PDAs
Set To Become Key Classroom IT Tool
Date:
6/20/2002, Wired News
Growing
numbers of teachers believe the fastest and best way
to provide every school student with a computer is to
give them PDAs. "I think it's a matter of time
before we're all using [handhelds]," says Sally Hennis,
a teacher and technology coordinator from St. Louis. "I
think it's a matter of getting other teachers to buy into it.
I just see a lot of benefits for the everyday kid."
Calculators for
science and math have been the traditional staple for students,
with shared use of PCs. Using PDAs would allow them to download
new applications designed for other types of classes.
Click
here to discover more.
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Instant Messaging Proves Killer Business App...
Date:
6/17/2002, Internet.com
Instant Messaging
is no longer the tech choice of teens. It's also proving a "killer
business app." During May, nearly 12.6 million office workers
logged on to one of the four Instant Messaging networks
- AOL's AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, and Yahoo
Messenger - according to a recent study from
Nielsen/NetRatings.
One Internet entrepreneur and
publisher making big use of Instant Messaging is Marlon
Sanders, of Marketing
That Roars. His various websites let customers talk live
to his sales staff to discuss their product needs. "It
really is a killer app when it comes to closing sales,"
says Sanders.
Click
here to read more about the study.
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E-Book Revolution Take #2!
Date:
7/9/2002, Wired News
The latest figures
from publishers suggest that Take #2 of the E-Book
Revolution is about to kick in with a vengeance. McGraw-Hill
reports that its e-book sales are up 55 percent on this time
last year. PerfectBound
sold more e-books in the first five months of 2002 than in all
of 2001. And Simon
& Schuster saw double-digit growth in e-book
sales from the first quarter 2001 to the first quarter 2002.
Plus more than 5 million copies of Microsoft
Reader have been distributed for use on the desktop, notebook,
and Pocket PC.
There have been
quite a number of skeptical articles about the market for e-books
in the press lately. But publishers' figures and anecdotal reports
present a good deal of cause for optimism. And
the fact is people love e-books. Many self-publishers have known
this for years and have been quietly raking in sizeable profits
from e-books since the mid-1990s. Corey Rudl's
Car
Secrets Revealed, for
example, is still the number one selling car book/package on
the Web. He began selling it back in 1994 and within 9 months
had made $140,000 profit, which led to him becoming a
multi-millionaire. Not bad for a lone e-book entrepreneur.
Click
here to read more.
See
also:
http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/1401731
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Rolltronics
Promises Massive Affordable Data Storage For The Masses
Date: 6/26/2002,
Rolltronics Corporation
 Rolltronics
Corporation, California-based leaders in microelectronics,
announced on June 26th that they will be developing a nanoscale
thin film memory for PCs, handhelds, and other devices. The
new memory system stores data in molecule-sized "cylinders"
that retain data even when power is removed.
"These nanoscale memory
arrays will be capable of storing data at a density approaching
molecular," said Rolltronics CEO Michael Sauvante. "For
example, a PC Card module could hold up to 64GB (billion
bytes) of data. This is 100 times more data storage than
PC Cards based on current flash memory technology."
With a 64 GB PC Card, costing
a few hundred dollars, you could carry all of the following:
- 20 hours of CD-quality
music (10GB)
- 10,000 high-resolution
photos (10GB)
- 10,000 complete web sites
(10GB)
- 10,000 electronic books
(5GB)
- 10 full-length DVD movies
(29GB)
Sauvante added: "Rolltronics
is bringing affordable massive data storage to the masses
through next-generation nanoscale molecular electronic memory
arrays." Investors are watching developments closely.
Read
more about nano memory at:
www.rolltronics.com/tech.memory.shtml
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ASIDES
;-)
This
month's off-beat news>>>
Gotta Run, My Tooth Is
Ringing...
Date:
6/21/2002, Wired News
 With the latest in tooth-implant technology, you may soon be able to make
phone calls and listen to the radio all from the comfort and
convenience of your own mouth...
Click
here to chomp on the story.
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Best
of DCLnews:
 Read
through a selection of the best articles from previous issues of DCLnews.
You'll find articles on e-books, technology, Internet, data conversion,
and digital publishing, as well as humorous looks at the news.
Go to: www.dclab.com/bestof.asp
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