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MPS - Newsletter - Issue 5

Issue 5 | 1^st June 2011

Yellow Page (YP) advertising is a $50 billion industry experiencing radical change. Major print directory companies in the US are facing several challenges, including city governments' refusal to allow...
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Like Clockwork

Maintaining a relationship across several thousand miles and different time zones is one of the challenges of outsourcing to an offshore service provider.
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Semantic Tagging

Semantic tagging has already proved a boon to researchers in the journal domain. A semantically tagged article saves a significant amount of time by bringing relevant, accurate...
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So EPUB 3 is finally out and, given that the IDPF site was down for several hours with what must have been a huge overload of traffic, everyone seems to be as excited about it as we are.

The blogosphere and trade press are overflowing with articles on the new EPUB standard so we'll keep this short and sweet and to the point.

EPUB 3 means EPUB (and thus essentially eBooks as a whole now that Amazon looks set to go the EPUB way) will spread to many more markets and readers because we now have:

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Our technology team has been looking at the HTML5 working draft for several months now. Here's a quick round up of the features that will impact the publishing industry.

Element	Details	Impact
<svg>	<svg> allows the Scalable Vector Graphics formats to be embedded directly as part of HTML5	Pages will be lighter, thus reducing load time when we use the SVG element to draw shapes
<canvas>	This feature allow users to draw any shapes/lines/strokes The current version of Canvas supports 2D and SVG formats	Dynamic images and graphs made using Canvas make pages lighter Application simulation exercise Photo editing applications

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