The tremendous growth in the eBook market led Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia (Penerbit USM, thereafter USM Press) to tap Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL) to convert its inventory of books and academic journals to EPUB format. In the past 21 months, this partnership has facilitated growth of USM Press's list of eBook titles and digitised journals, and penetration of the global distribution channels that extend its product reach.
DCL worked closely with the publisher to streamline the overall process of conversion, proofing and final production.
DCL originally performed conversion work on some of USM Press's journal titles in 2011, converting from PDF to XML. Following the successful EPUB pilot, the publisher chose to convert its books and journals to EPUB, and has to date converted a series of books and journal issues, representing more than 10,000 pages of text. Prior to DCL's involvement, textbook conversion took nearly two months per title; DCL's automated conversion and quality control processes honed turnaround time down to one to two weeks per title.
