At next Tuesday's 5th Annual RSuite User Conference in Philadelphia, Diane Burley from MarkLogic Corporation will moderate a panel, "Getting to the Core of a Digital Publishing Strategy."

Publishers have been working hard the past few years plotting their organization’s digital publishing strategy. Yet there are still so many questions and the landscape is indeed vast. In this panel session, digital information specialist Diane Burley will question RSuite customers about their digital publishing strategy. We'll hear how RSuite is helping with dynamic content creation, streamlined delivery to licensing channels, and the emerging world of apps. Diane is a strategic visionary and understands the technology that is needed to leverage great content.

Panelists include Anthony Allen, director of digital media at the American Society of Training & Development. Anthony is a dynamic industry speaker who is known for translating how well-managed and structured content results in increased revenue. Linda Baker, VP, IT & web development at SLACK Inc. will share how transforming its entire wealth of content into XML enables them to repurpose content in an agile way. Dave Moreau and Joan Robinson from Wolters Kluwer Health detail how RSuite enables the Nursing Practice to produce and deliver a 21st century product in a 21st century manner.

Don't miss this important event. With 1 week remaining, limited seats are still available!

October 25, 2011
The Chemical Heritage Foundation
Conference Center
315 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106

Robert Methven, CTO at Triumph Learning, will speak at the RSuite User Conference and demonstrate how RSuite is a key component of Triumph’s long-term digital publishing strategy. Triumph Learning serves instructional materials to more than 25 million students across America. More than three brands serve up a range of curriculum needs, including test prep resources, digital curriculum, and classroom kits.

“RSuite has become the center of Triumph’s CMS strategy and is the foundation that allows Triumph to respond to changing market needs,” stated Marianne Calilhanna, conference organizer and marketing manager at Really Strategies. “Whether you are an educational publisher, STM journal publisher, or trade publisher, to be successful today, you need a solid digital publishing strategy and that includes proper content management and tools.”

The RSuite User Conference is a forum for publishers who want to learn how content management is the key to building a successful digital publishing strategy. All publishing executives are welcome to register. Attendees will hear case studies from some of the world's leading publishers, learning what works and what doesn't work when developing and implementing a CMS.

Digital editions of cookbooks have been on the slow cooker for some time now. But with the release of Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child and published by Alfred A. Knopf, digital cookbooks are gathering steam. Judith Jones*, retired senior editor and vice president at Knopf and the person responsible for bringing the book into our homes, insisted the digital publication wait until the technology could properly display the beauty of Julia's writing and recipes.

Well, that time is today. Knopf released the digital edition of this classic tome on October 5. Because no electronic files of the book were available, production staff had the book re-keyed and images scanned.

With the impending release of Amazon's Fire in November and the impressive metrics stewing for digital cookbooks, the time is ripe for cookbook publishers to go digital.

Check out our latest whitepaper "Best Practices for a Long-Term Digital Publishing Strategy" so you too can get cooking.

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*Judith Jones also saved The Diary of Anne Frank from the reject pile. And for that too, I thank you Ms. Jones.

EPUB is the widely adopted format for digital books and the new specification provides features and functionality that are important for publishers to understand.

RSuite Cloud is the industry's first hosted, end-to-end content management and automated publishing system that produces EPUB files as well as other critical formats that publishers require. Import MS-Word manuscripts into our system and our "XML-first" workflow tools will automate your publishing process to create print-ready PDFs, web pages, and ebooks in more than 200 languages.

If you're going to the Frankfurt Book Fair, register for a free consultation with our Digital Publishing Strategists. We'd love to see you there. Aufwiedersehen!

Don't miss the opportunity to see what's in store for the RSuite CMS next generation user experience at the 5th annual RSuite User Conference. Conference attendees can also take part in an "ask-an-engineer" session to understand the implications of architectural changes in upcoming releases.

RSuite User Conference | October 25th

            

RSuite Cloud the industry's first hosted end-to-end content management and automated publishing system, allows book publishers to create, manage, and distribute single-source content to multiple channels.

The Joss Group awarded RSuite Cloud the prestigious Seybold Report “Hot Pick.” The Seybold Report Hot Pick designation is given to products, technologies, and services that add obvious value to professional publishing processes and reflect the Seybold editors’ vision of where the industry is heading.

“RSuite Cloud is transforming the world of book publishing,” stated Dan Dube, executive vice president of cloud solutions at Really Strategies. “We believe there should be no barriers for book publishers to deliver content to their audience—in any format, in any language, at any time. RSuite Cloud is already making that happen, both at global publishing houses and at small boutique publishing firms.”

“When I saw this solution transform Word manuscripts into XML and then automatically publish print and e-books, I realized RSuite Cloud is how book publishers can get into the world of XML without high cost,” explains Molly Joss, owner and publisher of the Seybold Report.

Want to see RSuite Cloud for yourself?

At Really Strategies we are fortunate to work with a variety of publishers: journal, book, scholarly, trade, technical. Obviously each publisher has a different approach for navigating the digital publishing landscape.

What we often see are publishers who are creating loads of wonderful digital content yet their digital supply chains are heavily tied to the print medium. According to the American Association of Publishers,

“e-books have grown from 0.6% of the total Trade market share in 2008 to 6.4% in 2010. While that represents a small amount in the total market for formats, it translates to 1274.1% in publisher net sales revenue year-over-year with total net revenue for 2010 at $878 Million.”

This means content supply chains need to change in order to properly prepare for a digitally focused content marketplace. Download our latest whitepaper to understand best practices for a long-term digital publishing strategy.

The 2011 RSuite User Conference takes place in Philadelphia at the Chemical Heritage Foundation Conference Center and you are invited:

On October 25, 2011 publishing executives will meet in Philadelphia to learn how content management is the key to building a successful digital publishing strategy. This 1-day event is open to both RSuite customers and publishing executives who want to understand how better content management increases revenue and profit growth.

Really Strategies is delighted to announce that Molly Joss from The Seybold Report will serve as the official Tweeter for this event. The Seybold Report is the definitive and independent source of information about the technologies used for publishing and printing. As official Tweeter for the event, Molly is sure to lead a secondary conversation in the Twittersphere highlighing metrics that RSuite customers will share about their experience with the only CMS built for the publishing industry.

Check out the following links to learn more about

• The 2011 RSuite User Conference
• Registration for the Conference
• The Seybold Report
• What our customers are saying

SLACK, Inc. is an independent STM publishing company founded in 1923. SLACK publishes a combination of products, including books, journals, and newspapers. SLACK implemented RSuite CMS by Really Strategies, Inc. as its content management system (CMS) to automate distribution of its journal content to licensing channels.

“RSuite has replaced many manual processes performed by production and support staff,” said Jennifer Kilpatrick, Editorial Director of SLACK, Inc Healthcare Books and Journals. “In addition, it has allowed seamless automated delivery to our partners and websites. This has created more business opportunities and provided a searchable repository for our journal content for future repurposing.”

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