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WoodWing is proud to announce that Meredith Corporation uses WoodWing's Enterprise system and Digital Publishing Tools to output to Adobe's Digital Publishing Suite.  read more >>

The second NextWave event in the Asia Pacific region has turned out to be a huge success.

Over 200 attendees came from all over Thailand and even all the way from Kuala Lumpur to experience presentations from our Gold Certified partner, ColourDoctor. Adobe's Community Leader in Thailand, Kajorn Bhirakit, gave a presentation about the newly released Adobe Creative Suite 6. Adobe's Benny Sriphet presented the latest information regarding Adobe's Digital Publishing suite. The event was topped off by three very interesting case studies from Digitall (Mars Magazine), Nation Broadcasting Corporation, and Show No Limit. read more >>

Publishers from across the United Kingdom converged in London for WoodWing's Next Wave Tour, a free half-day seminar devoted to informing attendees on how to take advantage of the boom in mobile publishing. London's City Hall provided the venue, offering dramatic views of the city's skyline, especially Tower Bridge. read more >>

Tablet publishing is alive and kicking in Indonesia. Publishers here are not afraid to go for new opportunities and to innovate. Kompas Gramedia alone has 8 tablet apps in the app store and publishes daily not only to the iPad but also to Android and RIM's Playbook. Other publishers have followed suit with Media Indonesia, MRA, Tempo, Detik.com and Bali Post all having launched tablet apps with WoodWing. read more >>

Last week Apple announced Mountain Lion, the next version of OS X (formerly known as Mac OS X) that will be released this summer. Apple introduces Mountain Lion with: "it’s designed with innovations from iPad and it works even better with iCloud." I find the latter an understatement, this release is all about making OS X a real member of the iCloud family joining iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch and Apple TV. Mac integration was an important missing piece in Apple's bigger strategy to make iCloud the center of the user's multi-device experience. read more >>

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 >>