- eBook Conversion Factsheet
If you are an author or a publisher, you are probably considering the dissemination of your materials on the various e-reading devices. DCL specializes in the conversion of books, journals and other materials to enable display on a plethora of e-reading devices. (6/2011)
http://www.dclab.com/ebook_conversion_factsheet.asp - eBooks
Can the look and feel of the print book be retained in eBook format?
http://www.dclab.com/dclfaq.asp#eBook
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DCL White Papers
- LEVELING THE TEXTBOOK PLAYING FIELD FOR THE PRINT DISABLED
New white paper from DCL's accessibility expert, Mikhail Vaysbukh, uncovers the issue ssurrounding the conversion of textbooks to meet the upcoming U.S. national standard for accessibility. (5/2003)
http://www.dclab.com/accessibility_whitepaper.asp - WHY MATH-ML ADDS VALUE TO STM PUBLISHING
In an exclusive guest article, Paul Topping, of Design Science, Inc, highlights the benefits of using MathML to represent mathematical equations ... and reveals how useful this technology can be when carried through to the web browser … (11/2002)
http://www.dclab.com/topping_mathml.asp - Free Content - Or Not?
University of Montreal Professor Jean-Claude Guedon says Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers are too bottom-line orientated and should make their content available free ... DCL's David Skurnik disagrees and offers a compromise solution (8/2002)
http://www.dclab.com/freecontent.asp
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DCLnews Articles
- Discovery and Monetization: Two Important Challenges Facing eBook Publishers
The growing number of devices further fuels the growth rate. By the end of 2011 there will be an estimated 21 million eReaders installed with a double digit growth in eReaders expected in 2012. Sales are forecast to exceed $1 billion dollars. (7/2011)
http://www.dclab.com/blog/2011/07/discovery-and-mo... - Re–inventing Content, Discovery, and Delivery for Today’s Academic Environment—NFAIS 2011
Expectations of today’s academic information users have changed as technology has advanced and new technologies have appeared, so many information providers have re-invented their content accordingly. The processes of accessing and delivering information are considerably different than they were even a few years ago. This NFAIS symposium on May 25, 2011 in Philadelphia, PA examined some of the trends and issues that content providers have faced and the changes they have made to their products to accommodate today’s digital and multimedia technologies. (7/2011)
http://www.dclab.com/blog/2011/06/re-inventing-con... - The Changing Content Landscape in Publishing
On May 23-24 many of us in the publishing industry will be attending the BookExpo America 2011 in New York City at the Javits Center for another annual coming together of who’s who in publishing. (5/2011)
http://www.dclab.com/blog/2011/05/ebooks-changing-... - Implementing DITA: Lessons Learned from Twelve DITA Implementations
This article summarizes findings from a series of interviews conducted with DITA implementers at twelve companies; the intent of the study was to focus on what really happened in live implementations and collect actual data to test perceptions that exist in the industry. (5/2011)
http://www.dclab.com/blog/2011/05/implementing-dit... - eBooks Sales Take Center Stage
For the first time, eBooks have become the best-selling medium in the US (a 202.3% increase in February!), and it seems that trend will continue. (5/2011)
http://www.dclab.com/blog/2011/04/ebooks-sales-tak... - Many iPad Owners Not Reading eBooks
In a press release issued April 27, 2011 about a new report by Simba Information, 40% of iPad owners are not reading eBooks on their device. (5/2011)
http://www.dclab.com/blog/2011/04/many-ipad-owners... - The Importance of Standards in Our Lives
Everywhere you look, travel, and shop, our world is driven by standards which have been developed by organizations that are responsible for their sphere of influence, but we take most standards for granted. (9/2010)
http://www.dclab.com/blog/2010/09/the-importance-o... - Future-Proofing Your E-Books
Though the e-book and e-reader industry is still young, already the adoption of electronic print technology is impressive, and growing fast. But it’s likely that the e-book products that we have seen so far are really only the first wave of electronic print — precursors of what’s to come. Significant changes to e-book formats and devices lie just around the corner. (9/2010)
http://www.dclab.com/blog/2010/09/future-proofing-... - Game On: iPad's Got Competition
It looks as though the iPad’s brief stint as the only must-have tablet device on the market may be coming to an end as competitors begin announcing their new “iPad-killers.” (9/2010)
http://www.dclab.com/blog/2010/08/game-on-ipads-go... - A Different View of E-Books
Many reservations expressed about switching from paper print media to e-books have revolved around the concern that the qualitative experience of reading electronic text will not match the ease-of-reading offered by printed ink on paper. (9/2010)
http://www.dclab.com/blog/2010/09/a-different-view... - Sizing Up the iPad for Healthcare
MobiHealthNews has produced a 25-page report on the iPad and tablet PCs in the healthcare field. Luckily for those of you still in summer-reading mode, they were considerate enough also to offer a distillation of their findings in the form of an easy-to-understand infographic. (9/2010)
http://www.dclab.com/blog/2010/08/sizing-up-the-ip... - Video: Kevin Rose on What E-Books Should Be Offering Consumers
Kevin Rose, internet entrepreneur and co-founder of Digg, sounds off on how e-readers could and should take advantage of technology they already have in order to become the socially oriented devices they were destined to be. (8/2010)
http://www.dclab.com/blog/2010/07/improving-on-the... - Video: Here Come the Advanced E-Books
At the outset, e-books started out as little more than digital words on digital paper. But as many predicted would happen, the e-book boom has allowed the e-book to come into its own as a distinct medium. (8/2010)
http://www.dclab.com/blog/2010/07/here-come-the-en... - One Million Books for the Blind
The Internet Archive, non-profit home of the Open Library and the Wayback Machine, has launched a new service today that will more than double the number of books currently available to those who are blind, dyslexic, or otherwise print disabled. The service will scan, digitize, and convert books into DAISY, an XML format designed to meet the needs of vision-impaired and other print-disabled readers. (6/2010)
http://www.dclab.com/blog/2010/05/internet-archive... - E-Book Apps: Which is Best?
Last year, e-readers were devices (like the Kindle, iPad, and Nook). This year, they’re platforms—in the form of free downloadable e-reader apps. While this gives consumers the freedom to, say, read a Kindle book on an iPhone, it also makes matters a good deal more confusing. (6/2010)
http://www.dclab.com/blog/2010/05/e-book-apps-whic... - From PDF to E-Book: Problems and Solutions for PDF to ePub Conversions
As the e-book business starts to boom in earnest, many publishers find themselves needing to convert their PDF documents to the e-reader-friendly ePub standard. In this article, DCL identifies some common problems found in PDF-to-ePub conversions and explains how they can be best averted. (4/2010)
http://www.dclab.com/blog/2010/04/problems-and-sol... - Library of Congress to Acquire Massive Collection of Tweets
The nation's oldest federal cultural institution and the largest library in the world announced earlier this month (via tweet, no less) that it will be acquiring the entire collection of Twitter messages dating back through March 2006. (4/2010)
http://www.dclab.com/blog/2010/04/library-of-congr... - Video: The E-Reader Wars
In this video, a panel from the Paley Center for Media argues about the implications of e-readers for content producers. Subtopics include issues like monopoly, advertising, cultural shift, and the future of reading itself. (4/2010)
http://www.dclab.com/blog/2010/04/innovation-in-an... - CONTENT REUSE - THE UNSEEN REVOLUTION
In an exclusive interview with DCLnews, content management expert JoAnn Hackos reveals how financial pundits, public utilities research organizations, and local governments are taking up XML powered reuse of content in a big way. (6/2004)
http://www.dclab.com/unseen_revolution.asp - CORPORATE MULTI-FORMAT PUBLISHING GOES ON AUTOPILOT
DCLnews talks to Chip Gettinger of XML content management software firm, Astoria Software, Inc., about the digital revolution that is going on in corporate technical publishing. (6/2004)
http://www.dclab.com/publishing_autopilot.asp - CONTENT RE-USE - THE KILLER APP
Organizations with large pools of information can save 30% or more on the cost of maintaining document sets - that's big bucks! But for a number of reasons it's not yet the popular thing to do. (1/2004)
http://www.dclab.com/content_reuse.asp - TECHNOLOGY RETURNS GUTENBERG BIBLE TO THE MASSES
Johannes Gutenberg's famous Bible started the printing revolution - now it's part of the Internet revolution. (7/2003)
http://www.dclab.com/digital_gutenberg.asp - GOING DIGITAL AFTER 1300 YEARS
The Lindisfarne Gospels, an illuminated manuscript so fragile it cannot be handled by the public, has been digitized by the British Library and made available to all over the Internet. (6/2003)
http://www.dclab.com/lindisfarne_gospels.asp - XML REVIVES RARE BOTANICAL BOOKS
The Rare Book Digitization Project at the New York Botanical Garden is making rare books by French botanist Andre Michaux available to all over the Internet. (4/2003)
http://www.dclab.com/nybg_digitization_project.asp - UP AGAINST GIANTS
Houston entrepreneur Trey Mayfield is taking on legal database giants Westlaw and Lexis with his LegalBitStream website, which offers access to a 50,000 document tax law database at no charge. (3/2003)
http://www.dclab.com/legalbitstream.asp - COLUMBIA GUIDE TO DIGITAL PUBLISHING PRACTICES WHAT IT PREACHES
Written and edited online, Columbia University Press's new guide to e- publishing serves as working model of the digital publishing process. (3/2003)
http://www.dclab.com/digital_publishing_guide.asp - PUBLIC RELATIONS STUDENTS PREFER INTERNET OVER TEXTBOOK
Innovative course at the University of New Mexico uses Internet readings instead of traditional textbook -- students give it the thumbs up. Commenting on the story, DCL President Mark Gross said: "There's a major opportunity here. Publishers are naturals to take on these new [online] markets. But instead, at least in this case, they're losing the market by default..." (2/2003)
http://www.dclab.com/pr_course_online.asp - NEW SURVEY SHOWS DATA CONVERSION PROJECTS MOVING FORWARD
IN TOUGH ECONOMY
DCL's second annual survey on data conversion, just released, shows a positive picture despite the state of the world economy. Many firms are increasing their conversion efforts and only a tiny percentage are cutting back ... (12/2002)
http://www.dclab.com/2002_surveyresults.asp - COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS SET TO PUBLISH FIRST EVER "BIBLE" OF DIGITAL PUBLISING
The epic "Columbia Guide To Digital Publishing" will be released in January 2003 in both print and online editions. It has an impressive array of authors, including DCL President Mark Gross, who wrote the chapter on data conversion methodology. What's more, it's not just theory, it practices what it preaches … (11/2002)
http://www.dclab.com/columbia_guide.asp - XML Changes Lives Of Print Disabled
DCLnews talks to leading accessibility commentator, George Kerscher of the DAISY Consortium, who says we are on the verge of an XML-driven breakthrough that is set to be a "Gutenberg Revolution" to the print disabled. (10/2002)
http://www.dclab.com/kerscher.asp - DCL Participates In Digital Record
Of A Vanishing People
University of Cincinnati Digital Press has republished on CD-ROM a rare pictorial record of Native Americans during the early to middle 19th century. (9/2002)
http://www.dclab.com/mckenney.asp - "Who in their right mind wouldn't want XML?"
XML pro Bob Hecht says electronic publishing is not just about product anymore, it's about process… (8/2002)
http://www.dclab.com/bobhecht.asp - XML is King
Jabin White of medical publishers Elsevier explains why he would be scared to contemplate the future of scientific and medical publishing without XML... (7/2002)
http://www.dclab.com/jabin_white.asp - XML Angel
XML not only makes life easier and more profitable for STM publishers, it can also be a life-saver, reveals mark-up expert Debbie Lapeyre in the first of our "Insight into XML" interviews (5/2002)
http://www.dclab.com/xmlangel.asp - E-Reference Revolution?
Oxford University Press launch the biggest general knowledge website on the Net (4/2002)
http://www.dclab.com/oxford_reference.asp - THE NEW KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY AND HOW XML IS SET TO PLAY A KEY ROLE IN SHAPING IT
In his new book, The Wealth of Knowledge, top business journalist Thomas Stewart argues that companies can make untold millions of dollars (or equivalent currency) by managing knowledge more effectively. As chance would have it, the realization of the importance of knowledge to the corporation came at the same time as the emergence of XML as a tool to organize knowledge. (3/2002)
http://www.dclab.com/wealth_knowledge.asp - Web Medicine
For the British Medical Journal getting wired was a winning marketing move... (1/2002)
http://www.dclab.com/bmj.asp - The e-book era is here - despite reports to the contrary
The e-book revolution is happening under our noses, but has gone largely unnoticed by mainstream media… (9/2001)
http://www.dclab.com/ebookera.asp - Textbook Publishers: Who's Afraid of eBooks?
As dot.com fever dies down, Fortune Magazine asks: have the traditional educational publishers re-gained control in the book industry, with content still being king? eBooks will soon be a factor in such segments as e-texts, say Forrester Research (see next item) and Jupiter Research, respectively. Seemingly faced with extinction just a year back, the old-line publishers developed their own web and e-text strategies, which included teaming up with the upstarts. Now, will they re-think the "e-ification" of their business? (2/2001)
http://www.dclab.com/textbooks.asp - Forrester Research: eBooks Will Force a New Publishing Model
Forrester Research predicts that eBooks will flop, but Print-On-Demand and digital textbooks will thrive, according to its yearend forecast for publishers. More importantly, the strong demand for custom-printed trade books and e-texts will force publishers to change their ways. The new model--dubbed multichannel publishing--will have successful publishers offering greater consumer choice, variable presentations and delivery, and new ways to purchase products. (2/2001)
http://www.dclab.com/forrester.asp - eBook Standards Groups Are United...But Publishers Divided
Two ePublishing-related meetings took place last month, on two continents, ending with a merger at one, and the other asking "What are we waiting for?". At the Open eBook Forum's Summit in Denver in early December, the OeBF board announced its unification with the competing standards group, EBX Working Group. Meanwhile, in mid-December, international publishers of Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) books and journals were still split after a meeting in London to discuss the strategic issues prompted by electronic production. (1/2001)
http://www.dclab.com/eFUTURE.asp - NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE MOVES TO XML FOR PubMed PROCESSING
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) updated its data format standard on November 13th. It now requires publishers to use XML in submitting information for processing into PubMed (its search service that provides access to over 11 million citations in MEDLINE and other related databases, with links to participating online journals). (12/2000)
http://www.dclab.com/AMPA.asp - WILL METADATA, NUMBERING, AND DIGITAL RIGHTS STANDARDS JUMP START eBOOK PUBLISHING?
The publishers group aims to jump start the emerging eBooks industry with its two new standards for metadata and numbering, and its recommendations for digital rights management. (12/2000)
http://www.dclab.com/AAP.asp - GOVERNMENT PAPERWORK ELIMINATION PLANS GO ON PAPER
Gearing up to eliminate paperwork by 2003, federal agencies submitted their plans by the October 31st deadline to the OMB (Office of Management and Budget). The Government Paperwork Elimination Act, passed in 1998, requires that agencies create paperless submission and maintenance processes for employment records, tax forms, and federal loan application. The plans must now disclose how the agencies will provide electronic options for information collection. (11/2000)
http://www.dclab.com/paperless.asp - eBook Wars: Readability Also Matters
Beyond the battle of the content formats for eBooks (OeB vs. EBX) is the issue of legibility of the eBook readers. Microsoft has made a big deal of its ClearType technology, which is said to increase readability 300% on a tiny LCD screen. Its rival, Adobe, has CoolType, which is not just limited to True Type, but can be applied to Type Fonts as well. The bickering continues over fonts and font sizes, too. But, which one will be the first to add a technology for crispness control for contrast (or gamma). (11/2000)
http://www.dclab.com/eBookreadability.asp - eBooks Are Ready for Prime Time
eBook sales may be "just a drop in the bucket" in today's $22 billion traditional book market, but change is afoot. Best-selling authors, such as Stephen King and James Ellroy, are no longer fighting the trend, but selling digital rights to their works. But, a battle may be looming (a la Betamax vs. VHS) in setting the standard for electronic distribution between OeB (Open eBook), favored by Gemstar and Microsoft, and PDF (Adobe's proprietary system). (10/2000)
http://www.dclab.com/ebookready2.asp - Two Leading Authors Join the eBook Bandwagon
Best-selling authors, such as Stephen King and James Ellroy, are no longer fighting the trend, but are now selling digital rights to their works. Ellroy has taken the traditional path via a book auction among five publishers for anthology rights to five magazine articles. (10/2000)
http://www.dclab.com/ebookauthors.asp - An eBook in Every Schoolbag?
Educational publishers and users are quickly taking to eBooks. “I think this is going to happen faster in education than anywhere else,” says Susan Driscoll, president of Worth Publishers, which will be offering several electronic textbooks this fall. (10/2000)
http://www.dclab.com/ebooktextbooks.asp - Teens Take to New Technology
Teenagers are a tech savvy group and have the numbers (31 million kids in the U.S. are between 12 and 19 years old), so publishers are adding new title eBooks for teens—not just public domain classics. (10/2000)
http://www.dclab.com/ebookteens.asp - eBooks Are Not Just for Young Eyes
The current issue of Modern Maturity, the magazine of the AARP (American Association of Retired People), offers its guide to "Bionic Books" for its 50+-aged audience. Advantages for this target market may include eBook's capability to increase type size with a single click, and the ability to read in the dark with the backlit screen. The first two dedicated eBook products on the market are Rocket eBook and Softbook Reader, with costs ranging from $199 to $599. With that price point, grandma or grandpa may be the tech pioneer in the family. Junior may just have to save up for it, or wait for a birthday or holiday present. (10/2000)
http://www.dclab.com/ebookretirees.asp - eBooks Are Ready for Prime Time
The Fight for eBook Standards (10/2000)
http://www.dclab.com/ebookstandards.asp - eBooks Are Ready for Prime Time -Print Books Are an Endangered Species
That bold prediction comes from Mark Gross, president of Data Conversion Laboratory, who says electronic publishing will do for textbooks what Gutenberg did to the quill. "Just as copying manuscripts by hand became obsolete with the invention of movable type, we expect today's printed text and reference books will be made obsolete by electronic publishing and distribution. Any publisher or typesetter who doesn't adapt over the next few years is in danger of becoming extinct in the marketplace," Gross says. (10/2000)
http://www.dclab.com/ebookready.asp - Read an eBook: OK; Buy an eBook: No Way
Perhaps glib, but that's the gist of a Seybold Research survey of 2,880 people, released last month. (10/2000)
http://www.dclab.com/wontbuyebook.asp - Pulp Friction:
How eBooks Rub One Man The Wrong Way (8/2000)
http://www.dclab.com/pulp_friction.asp - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GIVEN ULTIMATUM
As libraries go, the Library of Congress has been at the forefront of digitization efforts. With DCL's help, the library has already converted and encoded several million pages to SGML. But that's not enough according to a recent report. (8/2000)
http://www.dclab.com/library.asp - CHAPTER & VERSE: READ WHAT YOU WANT
Why should people pay for content they don't want? Will they have to? Custom publishing may be coming of age. (8/2000)
http://www.dclab.com/custompublishing.asp - To E or not to E?
Do people really read books any more, and do people care about the romantic appeal of the printed page. Two recent New York Times articles offer opposing arguments on the future of the book. Both make an interesting case. (7/2000)
http://www.dclab.com/ebooks.asp - Electronic Books
A Major Publishing Revolution (7/2000)
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1388/4_24/635684... - HOW DOES A LIBRARY GO ELECTRONIC?
When Congress issued a directive dictating that the National Library of Medicine digitize its entire collection, Library management knew that they faced a formidable task. But rather than stick their head in the sand and hope that it all worked out, management did a serious analysis of the task and the options available to accomplish it. Maureen Prettyman of NLM spoke to InfoWorld about the approach they took. (5/2000)
http://www.dclab.com/NationalLibraryMed.asp - THE TIMES WE LIVE IN - GOLDFARB LAUNCHES XMLTIMES
As the inventor of SGML, people listen when Charles Goldfarb talks about documentation and the future of digital data delivery. Having written the XML Handbook (recently released in its second edition), Goldfarb's embracement of the XML format is fully realized this month with the launch of his new daily news service "XMLTimes". (5/2000)
http://www.dclab.com/XMLtimes.asp - Xyvision Sees a Way to Make Data Smarter with SGML
And DCL is Part of the Vision
by Dan Dube, Senior Manager, Site Support, Xyvision, Inc.
http://www.dclab.com/xyvision.asp - Converting the World's Knowledge
Getting an Encyclopedia On the Web
http://www.dclab.com/encyclopedia.asp
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Supplementary Resources
- Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted?
Most of us remember the classic marketing example relaying the demise of the railroad industry, whose fatal flaw was essentially an inability to identify its mission as one component of the burgeoning transportation industry. Consider the publishing industry, a primarily print centric industry, now faced with its own deconstructing demons disguised as blogs, and social networks. Are these really the scientific publisher killers or are they opportunities for new models to flourish? (7/2009)
http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/is-scientific-publi... - Open eBook Forum
http://www.openebook.com/ - Electronic Book Web
http://www.eBookWeb.com/
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