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Being digital – creating a win-win situation for the visually impaired and publishers

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

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US ebook wholesale rev. (Mio. $)

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‚In 2015 Random House US will generate 50 % of turnover with ebooks‘

(Handelsblatt citing RH CEO)

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34.000 titles in Braille1.2 mio books

in print

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15.000 audio books

1.2 mio books

in print

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4.200 titles in large print

1.2 mio books

in print

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Common Issues

Formulae

Graphs

Image/text combinations

Complex layouts

Tables

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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

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g

Transfo

rmatio

n

Transformation

Transformation

Print

e-book

Web publication

Graphs

Content DB

Processing

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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

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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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