What would an iPad app showcasing The Beatles be without music? A little incomplete, to say the least — so Wenner Media, publisher of Rolling Stone, hired MEI's Adobe Digital Publishing Suite experts to build a custom audio player that streams samples directly from iTunes.
When Reader's Digest editors began planning their first iPad edition, they looked at what was out there and decided on an approach that would take advantage of the staff's familiarity with Adobe InDesign and the vjoon K4 Cross-Media Publishing Platform. They also called on a familiar partner: MEI.
When it comes to reaching publishers in Latin America, MEI's go-to distribution partner is Informática Dalai SA de CV. With many high-profile software installations under its belt, Dalai has become a valuable resource for helping customers in its region build efficient electronic publishing workflows.
With new electronic editing tools and efficient, updated workflows for print and XML, the Christian Science Publishing Society was able to fast-track the Christian Science Monitor and its other publications into the future.
Industry-leading business news publisher The Deal has been using K4 since 2004 as the editorial front end for its magazines, newspapers and electronic publications, including daily PDFs and its website. In 2008, The Deal began developing The Deal Pipeline, an online service that provides subscribers with customized, high-value editorial content and data.
National Geographic magazine, the flagship publication of the National Geographic Society, is world-renowned for its stunning photography, distinctive maps and thoughtful reporting from around the globe. Less well known is that behind the scenes, the magazine recently completed a major retooling of its editorial and production operations. A combination of a new editorial system and redesigned workflow is shaving weeks off the magazine's production process and boosting productivity across the publication.
The K4 Publishing System is making waves around the Beltway at some big-time titles. In our mini-profiles, see how publications such as The Atlantic and Congressional Quarterly have profited from K4's powerful database collaboration features, flexibility and scalability. No other editorial workflow system polls as well as K4!
New Zealand-based distributor NP Solutions recently profiled two of its AdForce customers, Mainland Press and County-Wide Publications, in its newsletter. Both publishers benefit from streamlined production workflows with AdForce, MEI's cost-effective, easy-to-use advertising layout and issue management system for small- to mid-size publications. [Stories reprinted with permission from NP Solutions.]
When BusinessWeek decided to upgrade its editorial system, its technical staff knew exactly what it wanted. In order to achieve total success, the magazine needed to integrate its workflows for print and Web content, while at the same time keeping things simple for users. The K4 Publishing System was the solution that made the project work.
When Northstar Travel Media bought the K4 Publishing System, it was a happy answer to a problem that had lingered for years: Upgrade or start over? With K4, starting over turned out to be cost-effective and surprisingly smooth. It also energized staff to work together to find new ways to get things done.
In the summer of 2004, New York City's weekly arts and entertainment bible, Time Out New York (TONY), was searching for the holy grail of publishing systems—one that could run on Mac OS X, provide a robust set of features appropriate to their size, and guarantee that, like this hot publication, it would stay ahead of the curve.