eBook Services

As eBook adoption rates continue to skyrocket, content providers of all stripes are mobilizing to meet market demand. The introduction of Apple’s iPad tablet─with its dramatic impact on the digital newspaper and magazine experience─has intensified the fierce momentum behind the expansion of ePublishing.

Still, for many seasoned strategists — in consumer & trade, education and professional publishing markets alike — questions remain. What types of investments make most sense now? How can we maximize their impact? How can we gain strategic and competitive advantage?

Speed-To-Market and Flexibility Will Drive eBook Success

Innodata Isogen is the industry’s leading provider of eBook services to major publishers─such as Simon & Schuster, Random House and Penguin─ and leading device makers─such as Apple, Amazon, Sony and Barnes & Noble.

A recognized innovator in cost-effective, XML-enabled publishing strategies, we can help you develop operational strategies that best realize your organization’s market objectives.

The size and scope of our ongoing investment in production and publishing processes─including a dedicated eBook services unit, supported by state-of-the-art tools and technology─provides our clients access to unrivaled scale, expertise and experience.

And no company in our competitive set has more experience with EPUB, the key to device-independent interoperability. In fact, Apple has selected Innodata Isogen as just one of two authorized conversion service providers for its mobile platforms, including the iPhone and iPad.

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Innodata Isogen's Methodology

We take complex knowledge work, disaggregate it into manageable segments and then send each segment to the location where it can be performed most effectively, efficiently and at the lowest cost. The globalized nature of our production infrastructure and workforce enables us to use a multi-shore approach, with different parts of a project performed simultaneously in different locations, with maximum coordination.

Experienced staff, proven tools and processes also help minimize the need for extensive instruction at the outset of projects, helping ensure quicker time-to-market. The global nature of our team means that Innodata Isogen is working around-the-clock and can complete our work before our clients start their workdays.

With a clear focus on our clients’ emerging priorities, we continually align our internal processes, tool sets and talent─such as creating a dedicated eBook Services unit ─to their needs.

Experienced Third-Party Provider

With our sophisticated content production infrastructure and extensive experience converting large content sets, Innodata Isogen quickly and cost-effectively helped Sony, a pioneer and one of today’s leaders in the eBook industry. We digitized massive quantities of books and converted them to EPUB, the eBook standard file format, to populate Sony’s eBook store with content. Sony’s risk of conversion errors was minimized and the project’s completion time was accelerated.

Leadership

Innodata Isogen is the leading provider of eBook services to the world’s most significant media, publishing and information services companies. We have been in this market since its inception, and we’ve helped many of the industry’s leading eBook players become eBook players. They like the results: lower costs, increased operational and business flexibility and a healthier bottom line. You will too. Call us to discuss your eBook strategy at 201-371-8000.

APPLE PARTNERSHIP

Innodata Isogen is partnering with Apple to provide a quick, easy and cost-efficient way to offer books for sale on Apple’s mobile devices, including the iPad and iPhone. Based on our substantial track record of success with Apple platforms, Apple has authorized us to help publishers convert, format and upload eBooks to the iBookstore. So whatever their initial format, titles will be fully optimized for flawless performance on Apple’s hottest platforms.

The choice of a platform (such as Apple, Amazon, Sony and Barnes & Noble) is preceded by negotiations and partnerships. These negotiations must cover how publishers will deliver content, whether or not the platform will convert the files, how eBook files will be maintained and updated to capitalize on newly emerging eBook technology and trends, etc.

Because Innodata Isogen has direct relationships with nearly all major eBook distributors, we possess their metadata and other technical requirements, including all recent updates. Most eBook distributors do not accept all known formats; they tend to pick a preferred set of formats based on their particular market and business strategy. In short, they decide which formats they will support and distribute. Of course, publishers can choose any eBook format, but those choices will shape their distribution options. As a rule, most publishers choose several popular formats to maximize their distribution potential.

With distribution houses continually revising metadata and technical requirements, working with Innodata Isogen saves our clients time and money. We keep pace so publishers and information services companies don’t have to. To speed time-to-market, we run all the prerequisite validation checks and ensure that the ingestion of books for distribution is seamless.