The Seybold Report

GMC Announces Customer Communications Management Platform

GMC Software Technology has announced GMC Inspire, an end-to-end customer communications management platform that, the company says, allows business to automate and control the communications cycle from capturing personal buying motivators to making best use of customer data to the production of multichannel communications and customer responses. more

Typefi Releases Publish v5

Typefi Systems has released version 5 of Typefi Publish, which allows users to automatically flow XML and Microsoft Word content into templates; the software works with InDesign CS5 Server. more

MPS and Maney Publishing Partner to Develop Journal Publishing Tracking System

MPS Limited, a division of Macmillan Publishing, and Maney Publishing are codeveloping a production tracking system to support tracking, information capture, and reporting elements of the academic journal production process. The finished product will integrate with existing systems such as SagePay and will support streamlined, automated workflows. more

LibreDigital and Mediamorph Partner to Support Digital Book Sales

LibreDigital and Mediamorph are creating the LibreDigital Business Intelligence service to provide tools and services to publishers involved in e-book publishing. Announced at the Digital Book World Conference and Expo in late January, LibreDigital is intended to help book publishers manage their digital business and monetization of digital products. more

Quark Releases Free Update: QuarkXPress 8.5

Quark has released QuarkXpress 8.5, a free update to QuarkXpress 8. The update includes docx support, new and updated Pantone Plus color libraries, and an automatic software updater. The new version also resolves several user-reported issues including Snow Leopard compatibiliy, PDF export, and job jacket integration, and is available to QuarkXPress registered users. more

Quark and Ixiasoft Work Together on Quark XML Author Integration

Quark and Ixiasoft have integrated Quark XML Author for Microsoft Word with Ixiasoft’s DITA CMS. The integration allows DITA CMS users to create structured content in a Microsoft Word user interface and manage the entire DITA documentation process. The combination improves cross-departmental collaboration on production of technical documentation without the need of DITA or XML editors. more

Adobe Releases Acrobat X Pro

Adobe announced immediate availability of Acrobat X Pro, which supports simplified workflows with integrated online services for storing and sending documents and advanced print production tools. more

Spiegel Group Upgrades to Quark 8

Spiegel Group in Hamburg, Germany, is producing more than 10 magazines using Quark Publishing System 8 and QuarkXPress 8. More than 500 Quark Publishing System 8 users and 70 QuarkXPress 8 users are working on publications including Der Spiegel, Harvard Business Manager, KulturSPIEGEL, and UniSPIEGEL. more

European and AsiaPac Publishers Use WoodWing to Publish on iPad

With the release of the iPad in Europe and Asia/Pacific, publishers in Italy, Switzerland, Japan, and Australia have introduced digital magazine applications created with the WoodWing Digital Magazine Tools, an extension of the WoodWing Enterprise publishing system. In Switzerland, the supermarket chain Coop has introduced an iPad version of its weekly publication. In Italy, Conti Editori has introduced AutoSprint, a publication about fast cars. Telefono Azzurro, an association focused on children's rights, has introduce Azzurro Child Digital. Japanese newspaper giant Mainichi has started a photo magazine called photoJ. And Australian publisher ACP has published a computer magazine called APC Magazine. more

WoodWing Announces Full Compatibility with Adobe CS5

WoodWing Software has greeted the Adobe CS5 announcements with the promise its products will be fully compatible with the new Adobe releases. WoodWing has already released a beta version of its Smart Styles CS5 plug-in for Adobe InDesign and InCopy on its Web site. Look for an article about the new WoodWing products in the next issue of the Seybold Report. more

Sun-Times Implements DTI ContentPublisher

Sun-Times Media Productions of Chicago is implementing DTI ContentPublisher from Digital Technology International to manage production across its more than 60 Web sites and 50 print publications. The company will access these operations through the DTI Cloud, DTI's SaaS environment. more

Elpical Claro Integrates Image Optimization Software with InDesign

Elpical Claro has announced a major upgrade to its automatic image enhancement applications. Version 7 includes advanced skin-tone analysis and correction, support for e-reader formats, and sophisticated digital noise reduction to increase overall image clarity, along with several other functional upgrades. Version 7.0 of the Claro image enhancement software also integrates directly with Adobe InDesign, allowing it to be embedded fully into the page layout process. more

Digital Innovators Summit Set for March in Berlin

New strategies for magazine publishers in developing profitable digital businesses will be the focus of the next Digital Innovators' Summit in Berlin, Germany, scheduled March 1-2. The International Federation of the Periodical Press, Association of German magazine Publishers, and the U.S.-based emediaSF new media consultancy co-sponsor the event, which is focused on the needs of magazine publishers as well as current and future trends in digital media. more

Global Academic Publisher Chooses Atypon to Host its Next-Generation Publishing Platform

Francis Group, a division of Informa plc, a global academic publisher, has chosen Atypon systems Inc. to host its next-generation Informaworld publishing platform. The platform will be integrated with Taylor & Francis' internal systems. more

B2B Publisher Turns to Collaborative Publishing System to Support Work-from-Home

B2B Publisher WATT has installed the MediaWay professional collaborative publishing system from ProImage to support work-from-home for its staff, saving it money by reducing office costs while allowing its employees to better combine work demands with personal needs and helping the environment by reducing commuting. With 17 magazines, Web sites, and numerous newsletters WATT needed an Internet-savvy production management system that could manage a complex publishing environment and chose MediaWay. more