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Gina Gordon |
ICC is a publishing production company with a long history as a technical supplier to college textbook publishers. As a full service supplier we handle everything from copyediting and permissions development to interior design, LaTeX, Quark, and Framemaker + SGML composition, technical illustration, interactive web publishing and data conversion (from legacy files or hard copy). We specialize in crafting production processes that fit each customer's publishing needs, whether for print or electronic media. On the technical side, ICC has been working with tagged data for nearly ten years. We are proficient in SGML and XML coding, and can accommodate proprietary tagging schemes as well. We currently have a staff of over 100 people working on eBook conversions and other interactive web products. This staff includes programmers, designers, technical artists, proofreaders, and project managers. We also have effective file management procedures to ensure efficient production, reliable archiving, and easy repurposing. |
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Druanne Martin |
OverDrive has converted over a thousand titles, including numerous academic titles and textbooks, into HTML and XML for leading publishers worldwide. As manager of the conversion services department, I can offer a team of professionals with Masters degrees in English and Reading. Many of my team members are former teachers who have chosen to dedicate themselves to creating eBooks that replicate as closely as possible every detail in the original text. We have a proven track record and pride ourselves on converting text to the highest level of accuracy within the conversion industry and within set time deadlines. |
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Barnes & Noble Digital |
We would be interested in doing XML conversions. We have done similar work for the Library of Congress. |
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John Ferguson |
Impressions produces books and journals in print and electronic forms for a wide range of publishers, professionals, trade, medical, legal, scientific/technical, scholarly, reference, and college publishing. Provides XML conversion services. |
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Jean Baptiste de Vathaire |
We produce books and eBooks. We specialize in XML and OEB conversion. We developed several applications and procedures to convert from Word, Xpress, FrameMaker, Ventura, and so on to XML or OEB. |
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Suzanne Serway |
TechBooks is a global company committed to delivering tomorrow's publishing technology to publishers. TechBooks professionals prepare content for any media from print, the web, online databases, eBooks, or wireless devices. Note: TechBooks is being used to test conversion to XML. |
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David Lindrum |
All books we work with have the markup in XML or an XML-like manner before being stored and presented as digital texts. |
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Anders Buhl |
This company specializes in XML conversion. |
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Mariuca Talpes |
SOFTWIN is a private Romania company active in the Data Conversion, Software Development and eCRM fields. Founded in 1990, SOFTWIN has been ISO 9001 certified since 1998. Our company employs at this moment about 300 people. The Data Conversion Dept. has more than 80 full-time employees and 100 part-time collaborators. We offer our clients a complete production cycle, from document analysis and DTD development to SML/SGML tagging and style sheet creation. Moreover, we can develop search/index and CD applications, eBooks. We usually work in teams organized in domain areas (chemistry, medicine, libraries, etc.). Our staff has specialized in XML/SGML standards and editors like Autor Editor, Xmetal, FrameMaker, SGML. We have also integrated to this process a team of programmers; they develop for every project automatization tools in languages like XML, XSL, CSS, X-schema, X-link, JADE, Perl and FrameMaker. Since 1994 SOFTWIN teams have developed more than 1000 projects converting books and magazines. The different fields include: literature, physics, chemistry, medicine and law, financial forms and reports. We have started this year book conversion to the new OEB format for the US market, and we intend to involve ourselves more in this direction. To this goal, we have assigned a team of programmers to develop custom tools for supporting conversion from different formats (Quark, PDF, Word) to different XML-based outputs (HTML, OEB or simply XML). |
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Karthik Srinivasan |
Conversion services relating to SGML.XML/HTML and eBook conversion. |
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Tom O'Brien |
Apex Data Services, Inc. is one of the world's largest data conversion services, specializing in XML and doing a significant and growing number of textbooks. |
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Mark Gross |
Data Conversion Laboratory prepares digital content for electronic publishing and the web. Converts a variety of information, from all major word processing, typesetting, document formats and paper. Creates XML, SGML, OeB, HTML, and all other structured formats for e-Commerce, electronic publishing, technical documentation and online information services. |
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Tony Grantz |
Founded in 1858, the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) is the world's largest company devoted solely to creating products and services for people who are visually impaired. We are interested in helping publishers and transcribers increase production of alternate materials. To support this objective, we have developed software to convert Quark® files to text files in various formats. We have worked with transcribers to ensure that these files are fully useful in a braille production environment, incorporating the special requirements for conversion to that medium. Our past conversion work has satisfied both the transcribers and the publishers, and has been completed well within timelines. Please fax or e-mail your requirements for a prompt review and response. |
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Martin W. Hensel |
Texterity is a leading provider of outsourced ePublishing services. We enable fast, cost-effective automated transformation of published pages into multiple electronic formats. Texterity leverages XML the new standard for information and e-commerce, to relieve conversion and production bottlenecks faced by publishers. |
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Steve Potash |
OverDrive, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise Digital Rights Management (DRM) and associated digital media solutions enabling the management and distribution of premium digital content over global networks. |
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Gordon Dyck |
GeniSoft is a first generation ePublisher with expertise spanning the earliest beginnings of the electronic publishing industry. GeniSoft provides a premiere service for content providers to publish their work in any format they desire, whether it is Open eBook Standard, custom CD-ROMs, PDF, HTML or XML. |
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Sharon von See |
TechAdapt formats materials using the Open eBook (OeB), DAISY/NISO or any other HTML/XML based markup standard. Formatted works can be converted into electronic books (eBooks) in Microsoft Reader format, translated into braille by certifield braille transcribers, or incorporated along with digital audio recordings to create Digital Talking Books (DTBs). We also have strong experience formatting books for optimum readability using HTML and XML/XSL, with intelligent use of hyperlinks for navigation and full compliance with current accessibility standards. Electronic book services include: conversion from text, Quark, Adobe or other electronic formats into the Open eBook format; scanning and OCR conversion of paper materials; text layout and creation or conversion of graphics and thumbnail images; final production of electronic books for both the desktop and Pocket PC versions of the popular Microsoft Reader software and encryption of materials to ensure the appropriate level of digital rights management. |
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