being digital – creating a win-win situation for the visually impaired and publishers
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Being digital – creating a win-win situation for the visually impaired and publishers
US ebook wholesale rev. (Mio. $)
‚In 2015 Random House US will generate 50 % of turnover with ebooks‘
(Handelsblatt citing RH CEO)
34.000 titles in Braille1.2 mio books
in print
15.000 audio books
1.2 mio books
in print
4.200 titles in large print
1.2 mio books
in print
Common Issues
Formulae
Graphs
Image/text combinations
Complex layouts
Tables
Rethinking the way content is • created• managed• published• delivered
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XML for typesetting
e-book XML (e.g ePub)
Web XML(XHTML)
Manuscript
Artwork
Tagging
Proce
ssin
g
Transfo
rmatio
n
Transformation
Transformation
e-book
Web publication
Graphs
Content DB
Processing
ePUB 3.0: new features
Layout improvements
Rich media and interactivity
Global languages
Accessibility improvements
HTML 5 support
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Barriers
Different types of content / delivery platforms
Digital workflows have to be implemented (technical problems, costs)
Digital Rights Management (DRM)
Copyright issues (eg text-to-speech)
Tech capabilities of publishing staff
Accessibility – a win-win-game
Stronger lobbying is needed to convince publishers of the benefits of accessible publishing for ALL readers and their WHOLE business
Digitisation moves visually impaired readers from a niche market to mainstream consumers
Accessibility helps publishers in generating future-proofcontent structures
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