I haven't blogged quite some time. The excuse is work, lots of it. But very interesting work.
Getting IGP:Distribution Manager deployed and working in a number of locations and languages; designing methods for large scale ePub production of art and heavily illustrated books; improving the subtleties of online typography in IGP:FLIP; and the intensity of creating the specification and software design for IGP:Content Fulfilment Systems with AZARDI II - have all taken a lot of clock cycles.
This post is not so much about ePubs, but what to do with the ePubs once they have been produced and our experiences with just that.
You have produced your ePub. Next the final step of the e-Pub and ebook publishing process is getting your books to the various retail sales channels. Depending on the genres of your books this can be more or less complex.
IGP:Distribution Manager addresses this problem directly making it easy for Publishers of all sizes to distribution multiple books to multiple aggregator, retailer and search channels.
Publishers
publish works for authors in a number of expressions. Traditionally
these were only print books. These were sent to a distribution agent for
physical shipping to main street bookstores, or to a customer via
courier after an online transaction.
Now there are multiple
e-book formats that need to be delivered to multiple organizations who
are in the business of selling digital formats for use in an increasing range of
digital devices. This situation is probably going to become a lot
messier before, and if it settles down.
