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| Introduction: Publishing in Today 's Digital Era | |
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| Digital publishing is both a given and a goal | |
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| Various publishers, various solutions | |
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| What next? | |
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| The Technical Infrastructure | |
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| Overview | |
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| The basics of computer architecture | |
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| The processing environment | |
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| Display | |
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| Data storage | |
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| Data communications | |
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| Additional interesting resources | |
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| Markup: XML and Related Technologies | |
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| Overview | |
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| HTML: HyperText Markup Language | |
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| XML: the Extensible Markup Language | |
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| Communication, cooperation, collaboration | |
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| Organizing, Editing, and Linking Content | |
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| Overview: the transition from traditional to digital publishing | |
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| Structuring content | |
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| The impact of digital publishing on traditional publishing models | |
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| Information about content: metadata | |
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| Linking | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Data Capture and Conversion | |
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| Overview: Entering a world of structure | |
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| Untangling content from structure | |
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| The conversion process | |
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| Analysis issues | |
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| Composition, Design, and Graphics | |
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| Overview | |
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| Text, graphics, and page layout: The three elements of a page | |
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| Design vs. production | |
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| Three key technologies | |
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| PostScript: the language of print publishing | |
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| PDF -Adobe 's Portable Document Format | |
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| Typography | |
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| Graphic types and file formats | |
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| Color | |
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| Page production | |
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| Image capture and image processing | |
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| Work flow | |
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| Printing processes | |
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| Working with printers | |
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| Resources | |
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| Accessibility | |
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| Overview | |
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| A closer look | |
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| Closing summary | |
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| Resources and documents | |
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| Digital Printing | |
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| Overview | |
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| Digital printing technologies | |
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| Uses of digital printing | |
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| Available printing systems | |
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| Sales channels for digital book printing | |
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| Multimedia Publishing | |
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| Overview | |
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| What is multimedia? | |
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| Deciding on multimedia | |
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| Multimedia experience | |
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| The business of multimedia | |
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| Multimedia technology | |
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| Rights issues | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Content Management and Web Publishing | |
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| Introduction to content management | |
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| Types of Content Management Systems | |
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| Benefits of content management systems | |
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| Issues to consider in content management | |
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| Evaluating a content management system | |
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| Post-implementation issues 454 | |
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| Electronic Books and the Open eBook Publication Structure | |
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| Introduction | |
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| OEBPS in a nutshell | |
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| Electronic books in general | |
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| Thinking clearly about e-books | |
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| The format problem | |
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| The OeBF Open eBook Publication Structure | |
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| In conclusion | |
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| Some advice for e-book publishers | |
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| For more information | |
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| Archiving | |
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| The importance of archiving | |
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| Other concerns for archiving | |
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| Where to implement the archive | |
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| Technology issues | |
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| Issues in development and implementation | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Resources | |
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| The Legal Framework: Copyright and Trademark | |
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| Copyright | |
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| Trademark law | |
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| Other laws | |
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| Lawsuits: Is there nationw | |