About Online Publisher

Digitorial On-Line Publisher has been designed to provide publishers of all sizes with the tools to enable them to maximise on the huge potential for electronic republishing of their paper-based product. Traditionally, once a newspaper, magazine or journal has been published and distributed, there has been little further ability to produce earnings from that issue for the publisher. With the advent of an Internet-based market many publishers have found that the costs of producing on-line editions as a subscription service have been costly and have produced very limited returns.

Having identified the costs and opportunities for a diverse after-market, Digitorial have designed an integrated solution which allows publishers to reduce the cost of their own internal archive and library requirements as well as produce new revenue across the whole of their existing consumer base and take them into new marketplaces.

The flexibility of On-Line Publisher has been carefully planned to ensure that any publisher, of any size, can reap the benefits of cost reduction with added revenue possibilities. For example, Publisher ‘A’ produces one Monthly Trade publication with an average pagination of 64 by sending PDF files to their contract printer. Their archive consists of a number of storage boxes with several copies of each edition plus a folder on their server with a directory for each edition which stores thousands of high-resolution PDF files. each time someone needs to look at a previously published article or advert they use the paper archive. There is no internal database as it has been seen to be too costly to install, configure and maintain. With a managed service from Digitorial all that they would need to do is to send their page PDF files to us where they would be processed to provide:

All of these digital resources can be hosted at a Digitorial Secure Server facility providing Publisher ‘A’ with a cost-effective internal library resource. Once the publication is stored at On-Line Publisher, it can be made available to any market which publisher ‘A’ wishes.

For a major publisher the only difference would be one of scale. The system is fully scalable and can easily cope with publishers who produce over a million pages per annum. The core database can hosted by the publisher to provide a major information resource between all of their titles, minimising research costs and maximising efficiency.

Security of Copyright and protection of Intellectual Property Rights is a major consideration for any publisher and On-Line Publisher provides many options for tagging and Watermarking all Digital Assets.