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Digital Magazine and Newspaper Editions: Best Practice Cases Vendor Description Vendor Name: YUDU Media History and Background YUDU Media evolved out of Digital Alternatives, which was formed in 2002. By 2005, the company had established itself as the UK’s leading provider of digital editions and had built a customer relationship management system capable of international operation, which is supported by the company’s reseller/partner network. YUDU Media resulted from the company’s desire to offer its customers an online, ondemand application that would enable them to publish their own digital editions. The company was rebranded in 2007, launching its YUDU Publishing platform in March 2007 and YUDU Publishing Pro on-demand Web interface in June 2007. Vendor Type Digital Edition Platform — hosted Philosophy YUDU Media’s aim is to provide innovative yet simple digital publishing solutions for consumers all over the world — to converge the format of print with video and audio and engage the reader with a fully interactive online reading experience. YUDU Media is all about taking the industry beyond its current boundaries and devising innovative solutions that address customer needs with advanced technology that is both easy to use and fully accessible. Their aim is to create on-demand platforms that offer publishers full control over their publishing processes, for effortless digital edition publishing that complements and strengthens their online strategies. They pride themselves for providing esceptional customer service; always willing to go the extramile for customers and partners. YUDU offers a quality, free publishing product for individuals and small businesses, and a high-end, paid-for product for publishers who require advanced features for more-professional publications. Technology Description YUDU’s digital edition platform is geared towards publishers of catalogs, brochures, magazines, and other types of publications. It is based on Flash format with embedded JPEG images, HTML containing text content, and XML files containing configuration information. YUDU offers two different editions of publishing product: YUDU Freedom and YUDU Publishing Pro. Both products encode text in Flash files with graphical vectors for virtually infinite scalability of viewing; to take advantage of this feature, the user ©2008 Gilbane Group, Inc. 89 http://gilbane.com http://gilbane.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Gilbane Research Report - Digital Magazine Editions

Gilbane Research Report - Digital Magazine Editions
Table of Contents
Introduction
Section One: The Data
Section Two: Best Practice Cases
Nxtbook
Bentley Systems
Graduate Prospects
Hearst
Information Today
Marine Log
Vendor Description
Section Three: Buyer’s Guide
Section Four: Visionaries
Section Five: Conclusions
The Authors
About the Gilbane Group, Inc.
Our Sponsors

Gilbane Research Report - Digital Magazine Editions