Online Magazine Printing with HP and Wikia- how are you going to profit from your documents content?
How do you plan on profiting from your online content? Here is an interesting development:
Wikipedia founder ties with HP to add magazine printing platform to Wikia site
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has revealed a new tie-up between user-generated information site Wikia and HP’s MagCloud service that will allow users to create and print magazines.
“We are doing all kinds of things like that to think about ways to sustain this idea of participatory culture. We have no idea if this will be popular,” Wales told news agency Reuters.
Users can source content to print from the 3m web pages and more than 50,000 communities presently on Wikia, which is now making a profit for the first time since it was founded five years ago.
MagCloud enables user to produce bespoke glossy, full-bleed, full color magazine printing through a web interface that allows them to select content and do online magazine printing.
HP has also announced it is using its BookPrep digitizing and printing service with the University of Michigan Library to make 500,000 out-of-print books available for on demand digital printing.
Earlier this year, German start-up publisher PediaPress joint forces with Wikipedia and Lightning Source to offer custom-made on-demand books with content from the online encyclopedia.
Lightning Source is responsible for all the print, with production at both its UK site in Milton Keynes and its US facility in Pennsylvania.
Source: http://www.printweek.com/RSS/PrintBuying/News/948265/Wikipedia-founder-ties-HP-add-magazine-printing-platform-Wikia-site/
Markzware comes to the aid of printers, publishers and document creators whom have their valuable content locked up in proprietary file formats, such as QuarkXpress, Adobe InDesign, PageMaker, FrameMaker and even to a degree, PDF files themselves with PageZephyr… sort of loosely ties in with the above article, for if you can get your rich content online; perhaps they will print it via you.
