By Nettie Hartsock, Planet PDF
PlanetPDF interviews Thad McIlroy, editor and founder of “The Future of Publishing”, about the Adobe acquisition of Omniture and his predictions for how this could alter the ePublishing industry.
Read the full interview – Adobe buys Omniture: The story beneath the story and what it means for users
A decade ago, Adobe and future merger partner Glassbook published Stephen King’s Riding the Bullet, a 16,000-word short story, as the first major eBook. Its digital rights management (DRM) failed as hackers hacked, King got mad, Amazon ended up giving it away. The eBook—and DRM—suffered a brutally black eye.
About the same time, iTunes rose and record labels struggled to rein in MP3 music pirates, DRM as a technology got beat up badly, caught in a riptide between freethinking music consumers and bottom-line-oriented copyright owners.
Adobe, somewhat quietly, released a product called Policy Server (currently part of the LiveCycle Enterprise Suite), and later, Digital Editions, to rights-manage documents and eBooks. Even it wasn’t without hitches, as arguments over text-to-speech features erupted between publishers—who reap revenue from audio books—and advocates for visually impaired readers.
For those of us who build software, creating a new software product is usually fun and exciting. There are new challenges, the opportunity to use new tools and techniques, and there is a special thrill of seeing something work for the first time. But unless you have the luxury of building software solely for your own entertainment, once you’ve got that great new product built, you have to figure out how to get it to your customers. At Vitrium, much of the software that we build is web-based, so the issue of delivering software to our users is really just one of ensuring browser compatibility.
By Dan Shea, PlanetPDF
PlanetPDF announces that Vitrium Systems has joined Adobe’s Solution Partner Program, which will help Vitrium in its quest to continually develop innovating and leading-edge PDF products. Partnering with Adobe will create new markets by allowing Vitrium to promote our solutions to Adobe’s customers globally. Learn more about the Adobe Solution Partner Program.
Read the full article here.
By Nettie Hartsock, PlanetPDF
In anticipation of the upcoming release of Adobe Reader 9 and Adobe Acrobat 9, Vitrium Systems has launched an updated version of docmetrics. Learn how docmetrics can track your PDFs and become a useful marketing tool for capturing reader information.
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