
"The proliferation of digital products requires strong metadata systems for the title information. Metadata creation, editing and distribution become an intrinsically tight entity. The paradigm of print book oriented title management is not suitable for proliferating digital products."
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presentation (both text and slides) held by Mark Majurey, Digital Development Director, Taylor & Francis Group, and Gregor Wolf, Chief Technology Officer, Klopotek AG, at EDiTEUR’s 31st International Supply Chain Seminar, Frankfurt, 13th October 2009 [PDF, 5MB] - during the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Academic publisher BRILL, with offices in Leiden (The Netherlands) and Boston, Massachusetts (USA), is implementing Klopotek’s publishing solutions for its entire range of products, including electronic products, major reference works, primary source collections, and journals.

Klopotek and Publishing Technology, two of the largest providers of software and services to the publishing industry, have established an alliance to increase the availability of online offerings in Germany and the Benelux countries. In these markets Klopotek will promote two of Publishing Technology's online products:
IngentaConnect, a fully-outsourced e-publishing service receiving in excess of 6 million visits each month, and
pub2web, a publishing platform designed to address the evolving and diverse online strategies of the 21st century publishing community.

Klopotek, the largest international provider of software and services to the publishing industry, and SCHEMA, a leading provider of native XML based enterprise component Content Management Systems (“CMS”) have announced an exclusive alliance to distribute and implement the 2nd generation CMS SCHEMA ST4 in the Publishing Industry. Per the agreement, Klopotek will exclusively implement, consult and support SCHEMA ST4 in the publishing industry worldwide.
Elsevier Will Derive Print and Electronic Products from the Same Workflow and Content
Elsevier, the world’s leading publisher of science and health information, has launched Klopotek’s PPM (Product Planning and Management) system for the first group of their Science and Technology book titles in the US, the UK, and India. Klopotek PPM replaced the existing software systems with a centralized database solution integrating the classical publishing business with innovative business models in the areas of electronic products and content delivery.

Shifting Sales Channels and What Publishers Are Doing about Them: The sixth annual Making Information Pay Conference was held on Thursday, May 7, 2009, at the McGraw-Hill Auditorium in New York City. Klopotek was platinum sponsor of the event.
Find out more about the Making Information Pay conference. Check out the presentation held by John Wicker, EVP Klopotek North America.
Anita Wilson, who was previously Head of the Training and Clearing Center (TACC) department at Springer Science+Business Media, has been appointed Member of the Management of Klopotek International and joined Klopotek & Partner GmbH on 1 January 2009. In her new role, she will oversee and manage international key accounts of the Klopotek Group.

‘StartwithXML’, why and how, was the topic of a conference in New York in January 2009, organized by Mike Shatzkin, CEO The Idea Logical Company, and co-presented by the American media company O’Reilly.