Texterity 'Make Adobe eBook' Service Supports Enhanced E-Books; Integrates E-Book Merchandising, Sample Chapters, Purchase Links.Business/Technology Editors SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 31, 2001 Texterity, Inc., a leading provider of electronic publishing An umbrella term for non-paper publishing, which includes publishing online or on media such as CDs and DVDs. services, today announced general availability of the Make Adobe eBook service, enabling creation of high-quality eBooks for the Adobe(R) Acrobat Document exchange software from Adobe that allows documents to be displayed and printed the same on every computer. The Acrobat system created the Portable Document Format (PDF), which is widely used in commercial printing and on the Web. See PDF. (R) eBook Reader(TM). The new service enables publishers to create Adobe PDF-based eBooks with wide-ranging functionality, including the creation of sample chapter books with purchase links, bookmark A stored location for quick retrieval at a later date. Web browsers provide bookmarks that contain the addresses (URLs) of favorite sites. Most electronic references, large text databases and help systems provide bookmarks that mark a location users want to revisit in the future. integration, contents linking, multimedia, and interactivity. The Make Adobe eBook service automates distribution of final, sale-ready eBooks to distributors supporting the Adobe PDF-based eBook format, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble.com, Lightning Source, Overdrive, and Yahoo! Ebooks. Texterity provides integrated links back to publisher and retailer web sites from within sample e-books, thereby enabling add-on purchases, print book merchandising, and print and e-book bundling. Texterity's Make Adobe eBook service includes: - Creation of standard or "sample chapter" Adobe eBook files from any PDF normal file including files created from QuarkXPress, Word, WordPerfect, PageMaker, InDesign, and FrameMaker - Web or FTP submission of PDF, metadata, and cover art files with support for ZIP and StuffIt archives - Insertion of navigation features including page numbers, table of contents links, bookmarks, index linking, multimedia insertion, and digital rights management sectioning - Incorporation of metadata including book title, author, and electronic ISBN, with the option to insert a new eISBN on the copyright page - Cropping for the best viewable area based on printer crop marks, centering of the text, and fit to ideal 2:3 aspect ratio Publishers currently using Texterity's PDF-based services include Penguin Putnam, Time Warner, St. Martin's St. Martin's or St. Martins may refer to:
"We are pleased to see Texterity's new service supporting Adobe PDF-based eBooks," said James Alexander James Alexander may be: Earls
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"Texterity's new `sample chapter' service allowed us to create new e-book merchandising offers, including the linkage of print and electronic titles through our retail partners," said Jennifer Gold, Director of New Media for Rough Guides. "By using Texterity's service, we can also allow customers to experience e-books with sample chapters from our web site before they purchase." Martin Hensel, President of Texterity stated "Texterity now provides publishers with a powerful tool to merchandise print books and e-books. We help publishers integrate purchase links, integrate multimedia content, and add interactivity to the e-book experience - increasing sales for the title, author, and series. E-books are now a key part of a print merchandising strategy, and Texterity helps automate this process in a cost-effective manner." The Make Adobe eBook solution is available immediately. About Texterity, Inc. Founded in 1991, Texterity (www.texterity.com) is a leading provider of electronic publishing services enabling fast, cost-effective automated transformation of published pages into multiple electronic formats. Texterity's electronic publishing solutions include the repurposing of PDF-based content and distribution of electronic files to multiple electronic retail channels. Texterity manages the ePublishing life cycle, including automated conversion and distribution of existing content into XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. , eBook, Wireless, and Print. Texterity provides services to leading publishing, catalog, and corporate customers including Penguin Putnam, Time Warner, Prentice Hall Prentice Hall is a leading educational publisher. It is an imprint of Pearson Education, Inc., based in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA. Prentice Hall publishes print and digital content for the 6-12 and higher education market. History In 1913, law professor Dr. , Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational publisher in the United States. The company's headquarters is located in Boston's Back Bay. It publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers , Harcourt College, McGraw-Hill, Random House, Scholastic, Thomson Learning, and HarperCollins. Copyright (c) 2001 Texterity, Inc. TextCafe(R) is a registered trademark of Texterity, Inc. Adobe, Acrobat, and eBook Reader are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: /əˈdoʊbiː/) (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. Incorporated in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and/or other countries. All other product or service marks mentioned herein are those of Texterity, Inc., or their respective owners. All rights reserved. |
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