Digital Solutions in India 2016: A Multitude of Outstanding Projects

What went into the initial stages of planning and executing a digital publishing project? Which area posed the biggest challenge? What happened after the project was near completion? Here, 18 digital-solutions providers talk about their unique projects and give a broad idea on the type of services that they offer to book and journal publishers.

A major backlist digitization project involving books for a multinational book and journal publisher was the highlight at Aaltech Group. "The entire backlist of 700 titles was converted into three different formats—ePub, Mobi, and print PDF. In view of the project scale, our technology team first developed a cost-effective transformation workflow that was tailored to the publisher's specific needs and type of titles. Then, the output files were QA-tested before they were delivered to the publisher," says director P. Shivaalkar, adding that all 700 titles were digitized within four weeks.

For another project involving highly interactive online courses that are to be made accessible on mobile, tablet and PC platforms, the Aaltech team decided to use Adobe Edge Animate CC to create a wide variety of interactivities that were customizable and applicable to content from different subject areas. "Games, drag-and-drop, quizzes, and interactive diagrams were some of the activities used in these online courses. For us, the goals of this project were obvious: reducing the development and production costs, and shortening the production time even as we looked for ways to enrich the courses," adds v-p for business development Thiru Baskaran.

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