The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing (Hardcover)

1.Introduction: Publishing in Today's Digital Era, by William E. Kasdorf, President, Impressions Book and Journal Services, Inc.
1.01 Digital publishing is both a given and a goal
1.02 Various publishers, various solutions
1.03 What next?
2.The Technical Infrastructure, by Chris Biemesderfer, Seagoat Consulting
2.01 Overview
2.02 The basics of computer architecture
2.03 The processing environment
2.04 Display
2.05 Data storage
2.06 Data communications
2.07 Additional interesting resources
3.Markup: XML and Related Technologies, by William E.Kasdorf
3.01 Overview
3.02 HTML: HyperText Markup Language
3.03 XML: the Extensible Markup Language
3.04 Communication, cooperation, collaboration
4. Organizing, Editing, and Linking Content, by John Strange, Group Production Director, Blackwell Publishing
4.01 Overview: the transition from traditional to digital publishing
4.02 Structuring content
4.03 The impact of digital publishing on traditional publishing models
4.04 Information about content: metadata
4.05 Linking
4.06 Conclusion
5.Data Capture and Conversion, by Mark Gross, President, Data Conversion Laboratory
5.01 Overview: Entering a world of structure
5.02 Untangling content from structure
5.04 The conversion process
5.05 Analysis issues
6.Composition, Design, and Graphics, by Thad McIlroy, President, Arcadia House
6.01 Overview
6.02 Text, graphics, and page layout: The three elements of a page
6.03 Design vs. production
6.04 Three key technologies
6.05 PostScript: the language of print publishing
6.06 PDF -Adobe 's Portable Document Format
6.07 Typography
6.08 Graphic types and file formats
6.09 Color
6.10 Page production
6.11 Image capture and image processing
6.12 Work flow
6.13 Printing processes
6.14 Working with printers
6.15 Resources
7. Accessibility, by Frederick Bowes,III, Electronic Publishing Associates
7.01 Overview
7.02 A closer look
7.03 Closing summary
7.04 Resources and documents
8. Digital Printing, by George Alexander, Executive Editor, the Seybold Report
8.01 Overview
8.02 Digital printing technologies
8.03 Uses of digital printing
8.04 Available printing systems
8.05 Sales channels for digital book printing
9. Multimedia Publishing, by Florian Brody, President and CEO, Brody Inc.
9.01 Overview
9.02 What is multimedia?
9.03 Deciding on multimedia
9.04 Multimedia experience
9.05 The business of multimedia
9.06 Multimedia technology
9.07 Rights issues
9.08 Conclusion
10. Content Management and Web Publishing, by Bill Trippe, President, New Millennium Publishing and Mark Walter, Consultant
10.01 Introduction to content management
10.02 Types of Content Management Systems
10.03 Benefits of content management systems
10.04 Issues to consider in content management
10.05 Evaluating a content management system
10.06 Post-implementation issues 454
11.Electronic Books and the Open eBook Publication Structure, by Allen Renear, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Dorothea Salo
11.01 Introduction
11.02 OEBPS in a nutshell
11.03 Electronic books in general
11.04 Thinking clearly about e-books
11.05 The format problem
11.06 The OeBF Open eBook Publication Structure
11.07 In conclusion
11.08 Some advice for e-book publishers
11.09 For more information
12.Archiving, by Heather Malloy, Digital Archive Manager, John Wiley &Sons
12.01 The importance of archiving
12.02 Other concerns for archiving
12.03 Where to implement the archive
12.04 Technology issues
12.05 Issues in development and implementation
12.06 Conclusion
12.07 Resources
13.The Legal Framework: Copyright and Trademark, by William S.Strong, Partner, Kotin, Crabtree and Strong, LLP
13.01 Copyright
13.02 Trademark law
13.03 Other laws
13.04 Lawsuits: Is there nationwide jurisdiction?
13.05 Contracting with customers
13.06 Conclusion
14.International Issues, by Robert E.Baensch, Director, Center for Publishing, New York University
14.01 Overview
14.02 Internet users worldwide
14.03 The STM industry leaders
14.04 Establishing the Web Site
14.05 Understanding the global environment
14.06 Geographic and country priorities
14.07 English and other languages
14.08 New economics of information services
14.09 Worldwide on-line advertising
14.10 Marketing on the Internet
14.11 International information sources
14.12 Internet publishing law
14.13 Conclusion
15. Digital Rights Management, by Paul Hilts, Former Technology Editor, Publisher's Weekly
15.01 Overview: What is DRM?
15.02 Rights-based business models
15.03 DRM technology
15.04 DRM standards
15.05 Legal developments: important legislation
15.07 The state of the market
15.08 DRM Implementation Issues