Openmagazine: automating multi-channel content creation for your digital first business

From print to web and beyond:

a multichannel journey with Open Magazine

Mirko Battistilunedì 4 marzo 13

Print Publishing Industry is not doing too well

decreasing revenues (magazines)

sales advertising

-40%since 2008

-6%since 2008

Source: stateofthemedia.org

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The print publishing industry is not doing too well.We will concentrate on Companies that print magazines here.Their sources of revenues are SALES and ADVERTISING.Sales are dropping, and Advertising doesn’t pay as much as it used to.Why is that?

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Print Publishing Industry is not doing too well

weak economy shift to digital

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Mainly, two reasons: • we live in times of weak economy• we are witnessing a shift to the digital world both by customers and the advertising industry

There's little we can do about the weak economy, and it would be hard to stop the digital shift...

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2010 2012

Mobile browsing

Source: royal.pingdom.com

3,8% 10%

+162%

0

6

12

18

24

30

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Notebooks Smartphones Tablets

Millions

Source: Morgan Stanley Research

percentage of all trafficdevice sales

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...because it's just happening. Smartphones and tablets are everywhere.Sales numbers are impressive. Percentage of browsing through mobile is even more impressive in terms of growth.

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Tablets and magazines

60of tablet owners have purchased DIGITAL CONTENT

%

newspapers

15%

e-books

35%

magazines

39%

Source: www.poynter.com

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We should be interested in what people do with their mobile devices, and especially with tablets, since a magazine is more likely read on a tablet.(And anyway in a few years time we wouldn't even know the difference between the two.)

Those numbers tells us: people owning a tablet are willing to spend money to read digital magazines.

So what can a Company that print magazines do?

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/177591/study-tablet-users-more-likely-to-buy-magazines-e-books-than-news-newspapers/

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two things:1. cut costs, optimizing their workflow, to avoid work that is still done by hand2. go digital. To do that they need some smart people who know their way around technology, and possibly a CMS with multichannel capabilities. Does that sound familiar?

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Behind a paper magazine

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Behind a paper magazine

Advertising

TOC / Contributions

Music

Talent

Showcase

Top Look

Fashion

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Now, let’s say this is the designer who works at Fake Magazine. Using Adobe InDesign he creates the layout for the magazine sections. He works on space occupation for contents provided by editors. He also inputs those contents into InDesign.

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When he thinks he is done, he is not: some changes comes along from the editors. In a word document.So he need to do some copy and paste. But then another change is requested, and another one, and another one, just before the magazine goes to print.

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Content is the keyeditor designer

before after

editorial workorganizational work

creative workorganizational work

before after

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What if there was a way to get the content out of InDesign, place it into a common Content Repository, where editors could access it to make changes, and, once changes are over, put content back into InDesign? This way, designers could concentrate on the creative work.

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Set content free

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and what if the common repository was a Content Management System with Multichannel capabilities?Like eZ Publish?That is what OpenMagazine does: it connects InDesign with eZ Publish.

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Open Magazine

Article Objectattributes:imagetitleabstracttext

TAGSimage

title

abstract

text

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How? Roughly: InDesign gives you the ability to tag content. This tagging feature allows Open Magazine to map InDesign content into eZ Publish content. For example, if an article is made up of Image-Title-Abstract-Text, those become attributes of an Article object inside eZ Publish.

STYLES AND FORMATTING ARE PRESERVED!!!

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Open Magazine

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Now, it's not like you plug it in and you can sit and relax while it saves money for you. There is some work to be done before even plugging it in.The workflow needs to be analyzed before knowing if Open Magazine can be of any help.

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Open Magazine

Print

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Let's assume this is the workflow our client uses to produce their printed magazine.

After analyzing it step by step, you can choose if and where it makes sense to apply Open Magazine.

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Open Magazine

Print

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setup

Open Magazine

Print

webmobile

ebook

-40% -15% -50%

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Open Magazine will need some setup time (during which InDesign templates are analyzed and standardized). It will then help saving time on some steps, while on others it will not add any value to the process.

And, since the content is managed inside eZ Publish, the client can exploit its multichannel capabilities and serve the content to a variety of channels and media.

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Let’s talk R.O.I.

❖ Resource optimization❖ Content flow automation❖ InDesign licenses?❖ More channels = more potential reach

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So where are the advantages?• Resource optimization: everybody does what they do best• Content flow automation: no more copy/paste• Or maybe editors use InDesign to edit content: if it is like that, money is saved on InDesign license, since all the editing is done inside eZ Publish.• More Media: more potential reach.

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Open Magazine Impact

IMPACT depends on publication type

Economies of scale more magazinesmore efficient startup

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The impact of Open Magazine depends on the type of publications: there are cases where standardization of templates is easy, others where it's simply impossible.

Also, you can have economies of scale getting into the picture, for those clients that manages a large number of magazines: the setup phase can be more efficient.

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Real Case: Vita Trentina

-10 Magazine structure definition

Content production

%

-50%

Space constraints definition-60%

Content assignment to InDesign templates-80%

(now done inside eZ Publish)

(should fit the placeholders in InDesign Templates)

(including Advertising)

digital first!

with

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This is a real case of application. Vita Trentina: they went digital first with Open Magazine. The numbers on the left indicate how much time they saved for those steps of their production workflow.

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Who is using it already?

Novactive - FRANCE

Vita Trentina - ITALY

CEI (Italian Episcopal Conference) - ITALY

Red House Marketing - BAHREIN

network of 150 weekly magazines

weekly magazine

publishing and marketing

eZ System partners

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A business model

Open Magazine can be found on the eZ Market.http://ez.no/Products/eZ-Market/Explore-the-eZ-Market/eZ-OpenMagazine

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Open Magazine is available on the eZ Market. EZ System is helping us marketing Open Magazine, and in turn we think Open Magazine elevates eZ Publish appeal for those magazine publishing companies that want to go digital.

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Open Magazine can flex and adapt to a client’s needs.But it’s not for everybody.

Open Magazine can leverage collaboration.

Before you go

photo by Mustafa Dedeoglu

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Open Magazine is a project rather than a product: it is extremely flexible and adaptable to the need of every client. In our experience we have seen so many different workflows that it cannot be otherwise.Clients might need to slightly change their workflow in order to optimize it. If they are not willing to do that, then Open Magazine is not for them.

If you think Open Magazine can add value to one of your projects, and if you need help with it, maybe we can do business together. By that we mean a collaboration that gives benefits to all the parts involved.

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Thanks for listening.

info@opencontent.it

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