Pruneau

In the digitally disrupted book industry, Pruneau can draw on it's long experience from the intersection between business/editorial and IT to help publishers, retailers and other stakeholders in the supply chain optimizing or reshaping their processes, tools and workflows. The industry faces radical change: Distinctions fade as readers become writers and publishers, and as media companies become alike. Some of today’s main challenges and opportunities in publishing are - keeping content available and reusable in different formats and channels - adapting to a market where context is more important than container, in order to remain relevant to readers - ensuring discoverability in a market characterized by abundance rather than scarcity. Pruneau offers its services to book industry players who wish to optimize or change their operations, workflows or business architecture. Pruneau's specialties include: ORGANIZATONAL -* Production workflows * Publishing processes * Project management STRATEGIC -* Supply chain management * Metadata strategy * Partnerships and business models * Distribution strategy CONTENT -* Single source publishing * Metadata handling * Content reuse and repurposing * Industry standards (e.g.ONIX, EPUB, THEMA): selection, implementation and best practices * Digitization strategy * XML, HTML, semantic markup * Structured editing * Computational lexicography