Easypress Technologies: Digital Publishing Platform and Workflow Automation
Easypress Technologies is a UK-based provider of cloud-based digital publishing solutions, specializing in the development of innovative technology platforms and tools to streamline and automate the production workflows for the global publishing industry. Established in the late 1990s, the company's core mission is to enable publishers???including major trade, academic, non-fiction, and Christian publishers, as well as corporate communications teams and self-publishing authors???to produce both print and digital content more efficiently and cost-effectively.
The entity's central activity revolves around the transformation of raw manuscript content into multiple, high-quality output formats from a single source file. This "one manuscript, many diverse outputs" philosophy addresses the industry's need for multi-channel publishing, reducing the burden of manual conversions and traditional, resource-intensive production processes. Easypress???s technology focuses on building productivity tools for editorial and production teams, facilitating seamless collaboration and 24/7 production capabilities that are essential in a global, often remote-working, environment. Their solutions automate steps typically carried out by onshore and offshore service providers, leading to faster turnaround times and a significant reduction in cost per page for publishers.
Continue…Core Activities and Operational Focus
The primary function of Easypress Technologies is to develop and implement its proprietary Atomik digital publishing platform. This platform is an end-to-end collaborative production workflow solution that uses advanced algorithms to handle complex tasks. Specifically, the company is deeply involved in:
- Content Conversion and Structuring: Automating the transliteration of content from print-ready or initial manuscript formats into structured digital formats, often relying on XML conversion to extract layout elements for high-quality eBook production.
- Automated Typesetting and Layout: Utilizing advanced mathematical algorithms for accurate and fast typesetting of virtually any book, a capability that extends to creating print-ready PDFs directly from a single Word document.
- Multi-Format Generation: Creating various final-product outputs, including print-ready PDFs and a range of digital formats such as EPUB3, Mobi, and fixed-layout eBooks, with an ongoing development focus to incorporate audio production (audiobooks) into the seamless workflow.
- Workflow Integration: Working with clients??? existing processes, infrastructure, and people to quickly integrate their cloud-based platform and deliver content without requiring a change in current editorial or print production methods.
Products Offered
Easypress Technologies provides a suite of branded products under the Atomik family, each designed to address a specific part of the publishing workflow:
- Atomik ePublisher: This is the company's complete, end-to-end print and digital publishing platform. It is a cloud-based solution that enables the creation of a print-ready PDF and a corresponding eBook from a single manuscript, often priced per title.
- Atomik eStylist: A dedicated tool for digital book manuscript styling. It assists editorial teams in preparing manuscripts for production by applying necessary structural and stylistic clean-up, typically offered on a user-per-month subscription basis.
- Atomik Xport: A specialized tool for InDesign digital publishing. It supports publishers who use Adobe InDesign by facilitating the export and conversion of their content into various digital formats. Easypress is a premier development partner for Adobe InDesign.
- Atomik Roundtrip: This product is focused on digital brochure publishing, suggesting a solution for shorter, more visual, or periodical content as opposed to traditional book formats.
Services Offered
In addition to its proprietary technology, Easypress also offers bespoke publishing services, leveraging their in-house expertise to provide a complete production outsourcing solution or targeted assistance:
- Easypress Service: A comprehensive service where a client simply sends a Word manuscript, and the Easypress team handles the entire conversion process to deliver a Print-Ready PDF and an EPUB3 eBook.
- Manuscript Styling: Professional services to ensure a manuscript is correctly structured and formatted for automated production.
- CIEP accredited proofreading: Utilizing professional editors to ensure quality and accuracy of the content.
- Typesetting and Edit Corrections: Traditional and automated typesetting services, along with managing the correction process for final files.
- Digital Conversion: Direct service for digital conversion to a wide array of formats, including XML, EPUB3, Mobi, and fixed-layout formats, to meet diverse marketplace requirements.
- ALT-TXT Authoring Services: A focus on accessibility, providing professional creation of Alternative Text for images and figures to meet industry accessibility standards.
- Maintenance Service: Ongoing support and upkeep for clients using their technology platform.
