Electronic publishing provides significant benefits for publishing houses and company publishing departments, including substantial cost savings, greater subscriber satisfaction, increased publication circulations and mailing cost savings. Drawing on its many years of experience in the publishing industry, Acer AEB has introduced a new Walking Library e-publishing service platform using the latest Internet information technology. The platform provides a new reading experience by offering electronic publications that feel like paper publications. Readers do not need any specialist computer knowledge and do not have to go through the hassle of installing any additional reader apps; they simply use their computer's built-in web browser in the same way as they would to browse any webpage. This is all it takes to enjoy the convenience of e-publishing and experience a new kind of reading.
˙Benefits of the Walking Library:
▪Almost no investment risk with no need to purchase any system ▪Powerful circulation capabilities that enable market expansion ▪Reduced inventory risks and lower return costs ▪Perfect copyright management that safeguards valuable content ▪Clear accounting and rational profit distributions ▪Leveraging of diverse channels to develop overseas markets ▪Experience the publishing and editing platform today
Walking Library target audience
The functions of the Walking Library e-publishing service platform are suitable for publications in all fields and are flexible enough to fit business models in every industry. Acer AEB's professional team can also provide solutions that satisfy publishing companies' customization requirements and sharpen their competitive edge. In response to different publishers' products and operating characteristics, the Walking Library has already developed the following solutions to date to meet the varying needs of different publishing formats:
▪iMagazine: iMagazine's design philosophy always looks at the world from the perspective of the publisher and the subscribers. By lowering the total cost of ownership, iMagazine makes it easy for magazine publishers to move into this new e-publishing era. The iMagazine solution offers a brand new set of technology platforms and benefits that better meet publishers' needs:
♦The browser-based solution does not require subscribers to install any special reader software; subscribers only need a built-in web browser to read the e-magazine.
♦The iMagazine solution beautifully and exquisitely captures the feel of reading paper publications. This dramatically reduces reader entry barriers so that publishers can quickly expand their markets.
♦Free use of the production platform allows publishers full control of their publishing. As long as the publisher's editorial department has computers with built-in browsers, there is no need to install any e-book-making tools or editing software. With nothing more than built-in browsers, editorial departments can immediately edit and produce e-magazines and make corrections or change ad pages at any time to keep up with publishing demands in this era of ever-increasing speed.
♦Full copyright protection and a diverse range of reader management methods: With complete mechanisms to protect their valuable digital content assets and a greater variety of reader management methods, publishers can consider more diversified business models to create new revenue streams, including models such as corporate e-magazine group purchases and consumer book rentals.
▪iBook: The iBook e-book solution, which comes with full copyright protections, allows publishers to dramatically cut printing costs, reduce logistics expenses and overcome the inventory, returns and billing difficulties that often result from long supply chains and complicated distribution channels. Whether you are a large publishing house or a freelance writer, the iBook solution makes it easy for you to reap the new benefits of e-publishing, including benefits to your publishing activities and your business operations.
▪iBrochure: Acer AEB's iBrochure solution provides multinational companies with a fast online publishing solution. Without any upfront investment in digital information, companies can use Acer AEB's iBrochure online solution to digitally publish their Chinese and English briefs, product catalogs, regular customer care materials and other publications, thus immediately leveraging the benefits of e-publishing to expand their global marketing vision, strengthen relationships with their partners and make their customer service faster and more sophisticated.
▪iCatalog: Large-scale merchandisers regularly mail out large volumes of member catalogs, special sales publications and anniversary materials. This expense often represents a huge part of their annual budgets. Yet due to members' addresses constantly changing, these publications often do not get the anticipated results even though the merchandisers have invested heavily in mailing them out. The Walking Library created the iCatalog solution to address this unique industry issue. iCatalog enables large-scale merchandisers to maximize the benefits of e-publishing to significantly reduce their annual catalog budgets while increasing member satisfaction and quickly responding to competitors' promotional moves. iCatalog allows merchandisers to help members and prospective customers quickly understand their business dynamics, get product information, receive event updates and more. With iCatalog, you get guaranteed and timely results for your business revenue.
▪iKnowledge: Traditional full-text search functions invariably undo all the effort publishers put into perfecting both the text and the illustrations in their products to make for highly enjoyable reading. The old method means users can only read publishers' works in text mode. Acer AEB's iKnowledge solution not only provides a powerful cross-book keyword search function, but it delivers a full, high-quality reading experience with multimedia-embedded finished works filled with both outstanding text and attractive illustrations. iKnowledge is especially suitable for magazine, academic journal and textbook publishers as a solution for building a publication database. A publication database allows publishers to consider more varied business directions and licensing models.
▪iMemory: Acer AEB's iMemory solution fully combines the advantages of traditionally published photography with the benefits of digital multimedia. This makes it the ideal solution for school graduation memory books, wedding photo collections, personal photos, family photos and other materials for which the emotional component of the viewing experience is important. The result is a brand-new viewing experience as well as a 24/7 web service for readers. Wherever they are, whenever they want, readers can add to and enjoy their collection of beautiful memories of growth and development.
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