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Since the announcement of the Digital Publishing Alliance between WoodWing and Adobe in October last year, WoodWing engineers have been working closely together with the DPS development team at Adobe to create the best possible digital publishing solution. read more >>

WoodWing kicked off its Next Wave Tour in Amsterdam this week, starting a series of approximately 20 international events in 2012. Visiting places like Seoul, New York, Munich, Tokyo, and São Paulo, the Next Wave Tour focuses on the next step in the evolution of the tablet publishing market: the time when publishers make serious decisions about systems for tablet publishing, focusing on issues like efficiency and monetization. read more >>

Although not a complete surprise, Apple launched an impressive application at their New York event on January 21st: iBooks Author.

Together with iBooks 2, the update of iTunes U, the immediately availability of free (US) textbooks and the fact that iBooks and iBooks Author are free of charge, clearly shows Apple's ambitions regarding the educational market.

It was not a complete surprise since it was specifically mentioned in Jobs' biography: "In fact Jobs had his sights set on textbooks as the next business he wanted to transform. He believed it was a $8 billion a year industry ripe for digital destruction."

You can imagine that we at WoodWing were specifically interested in iBooks Author as the creation tool. read more >>

Last Wednesday a new magazine was launched in the Netherlands, called 360.

360 chooses the best news-articles from a selection of international magazines and newspapers and translates it for its readers. It's based on the French success of Courrier.

360 is a multi-channel product. Print (bi-weekly), web and tablet. All channels containing the content most suited for their medium.

The editors of 360 selected WoodWing Enterprise as their multi-channel publishing system. PubliQare has been the Solution Partner implementing this new title. More details about this project are to follow soon.

We are looking forward to the success of 360. The courage, the vision and the energy put into this adventure deserves great respect. We're proud having another multi-channel publisher being part of the WoodWing community. Welcome 360 read more >>

Asia has been a hotbed for newspaper iPad (and other tablet platform) editions right from when the iPad came out in 2010 and other tablets emerged after that. In Indonesia, Kompas Gramedia was the first daily newspaper in Asia on the iPad. In Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post was the first English daily newspaper in Asia on the iPad. In WoodWing Asia Pacific's backyard of Malaysia the newspaper publishers have also been quick to embrace the iPad and other tablets. The Star successfully launched first on the iPad, followed closely by the New Straits Times Press who launched three daily apps: Harian Metro, Berita Harian and the New Straits Times. read more >>