Publishing-specific software solutions provider Publishing Technology plc, UK, and the China National Publications Import and Export Corporation (CNPIEC) are set to launch the Digital Gateway, a digital publishing platform for Chinese libraries, in a special ceremony at the London Book Fair. The launch event will take place at 11:30am on April 17, 2012, in the Hampton Room at The London Book Fair. The event will feature speeches from high level dignitaries from the China Publishing Group, CPC Central Committee, State Council Information Office and Wolters Kluwer, in addition to CNPIEC and Publishing Technology.
The digital portal has been developed by Publishing Technology on the company’s flagship online publishing platform, pub2web, and is managed by CNPIEC, the publication import and export group in China. With semantically enriched content and interfaces in English and Mandarin, the site directly links international publishers to over 10,000 of CNPIEC’s public and academic member libraries and potentially millions of new users.
Through the Digital Gateway, international publishers will be able to extend their reach into a burgeoning, untapped market, attracting new audiences to digest their content and opening up new revenue potential in the process. With many publishers and aggregators already showing great interest in negotiating partnerships with CNPIEC, Publishing Technology and CNPIEC predict that in the next two years over a million different content sources will be live and accessible on the site.
