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Find What You’re Looking for at the Book Fair!
Posted by Matt Turner on 07 October 2014 06:30 PM
We’re kicking off a week of activity here at the Frankfurt Book Fair. And right off the bat we are making news. First up is the welcome reception with our just-announced-today new partner: publishing industry software solutions provider Klopotek. With a rights management application being planned for release in early 2015, the firm needed to move from a relational database to one that could support multiple, complex data types including contracts, asset metadata and rights and usage
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Keeping Independent Book Publishers … Independent
Posted by Diane Burley on 04 November 2013 10:21 AM
Reading analytics provides essential feedback loop to educators and authors.

Reading analytics provides essential feedback loop to educators and authors.

Last year was a milestone for book publishers: ebooks outsold physical copies for the first time. While that may hardly be news to people clutching iPads, Kindles, Nooks, Kobos and whatever device-du jour is released for the holidays, it could have been a scary proposition for the thousands of independent and medium-sized book publishers — who just didn’t have the deep pockets to create a


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The Wonder Years in STM
Posted by Kate Tickner on 25 July 2013 02:05 PM

MarkLogic’s customer base includes a large number of Not-For-Profit and membership-based organisations – Societies, Institutions and others. These companies are STM (Scientific, Technical & Medical) publishers but not commercial STM publishing organisations. They therefore share some similar challenges when it comes to information sharing and content publishing but they have a different set of priorities and goals.

I wanted to find out more about this important section of the marketplace


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Book Analysis the XML Way
Posted by Diane Burley on 12 July 2013 06:52 PM
listing of figures and tables sorted by chapter and location in each chapter. It also shows the caption for each figure and a thumbnail of the image. There are versions that show the type of figure (line-art vs. bitmapped) the sources of each figure.

Listing of figures and tables sorted by chapter and location in each chapter. It also shows the caption for each figure and a thumbnail of the image. There are versions that show the type of figure (line-art vs. bitmapped) the sources of each figure.

Author Dan McCreary’s new book “Making Sense of NoSQL” is due out soon – and not only have we had advances of book chapters, but we have seen an advance analysis of the book. Using XML to deconstruct a book is something that is incredibly easy


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