the pioneer's dilemma: re-thinking and re-tooling what was once
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The Pioneer’s Dilemma: Re-thinking and re-tooling what was once state of the art
Nancy Roberts
Global Production & Operations
Director, Academic Publishing
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• Introduction to the Press
• Our ebook journey
• The Cambridge XML workflow
• The need for change
• Discoveries and recommendations
• Next steps in the journey
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1534
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013
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Advancing learning, knowledge and research worldwide
• Large and complex global
business
• Organic structures which
have evolved over time
and in different ways
• A huge and varied backlist
& subject range (not just
STM)
• Traditional, print-focussed
organization
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• 1997: launch of CJO
• 1999: first Cambridge ebook
produced
• 2002: XML workflow introduced
• 2007: CBML DTD launched
• 2010: CBO launched
• 2013: CBO reaches 20,000 titles in
January; Kindle will reach 10,000
titles by year end; ePub generation
moves from a post-process into
frontlist workflows
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eBook
Strategy?
Rights?
Files?
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Manuscript sent
offshore for coding
Copy edit on the
normalized typescript
Typescript returned to
offshore vendor for
page layout
Page PDFs approved and final
XML ordered
PDFs to printer, XML to Content Services
ePub generated by Content Services
and delivered
out
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Lots of XML!
Early into the ebook
market
Lots of tools and
automation developed
around the CBML
Good internal
knowledge developed
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Speed to market
Complexity of CBML DTD makes it hard to manage and
reduces our ability to take on new vendors
Loss of control due to highly automated processes
Variations between XML and print and version control
issues
Quality concerns
Possible stagnation of the DTD
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The need to review what was once pioneering
• The impact of Kindle and the move from B2B to B2C
supply chains
• Increased quality expectations
• Desire (and need) to be more strategic and less
scattergun
• Cambridge platform rearchitecture
• Sales and marketing request to publish print and e
simultaneously
• Need to manage down costs by tendering out work
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So where next?
• Academic Board ratified
the decision to move to
BITS in October
• A project team is being
pulled together with
engagement from across
the business
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• To change the engine while
keeping the plane in the air
• Go live with the new DTD in
May 2014
• Streamline workflows
around the new DTD
throughout 2014
• Fully re-purposable, cross-
searchable content will
really be usable for the first
time
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