EBOOKS IN THE WILD PANEL

Caroline Theriault-LepageTechnical project manager and product expert

A LEADER IN DIGITAL CONTENT DISTRIBUTION

Since 1990, De Marque has been involved in the publishing and distribution of educational and cultural content.

Well established in Canada, France, Italy, and most recently in Spain, De Marque is at the center of an international and multilingual network, with more than 550 partners in over 40 countries.

We support our partners in their commercial strategies through effective, robust and agile technology.

DIGITAL WAREHOUSESIn partnership with the National Association of Book Publishers of Quebec (ANEL), we developed the Digital Warehouse, the first digital book distribution platform in Quebec.

Cantook (Canada)+42 000 documents

Eden Livres (France)+38 000 ebooks

Edigita (Italy)+38 000 ebooks

Libranda (Spain)+43 000 ebooks

FILES FORMATS WE ACCEPTEPUB

(Versions 2, 3 and 3.0.1, enhanced, fixed layout and reflowable)

PDFMOBIiBooks

ONIX/XML

Pretnumerique.ca In collaboration with Quebec’s public national library and archives and the BIBLIO Network, we developed and launched in 2011 the platform Pretnumerique.ca, making digital book loans possible for libraries all over the province.

Cantook Station De Marque and LSC (Library Services Center) joined forces in 2014 for an e-lending solution for Canadian public libraries. Already implemented in hundreds of libraries here and abroad, Cantook Station is a robust and proven technology which gives librarians the control and diversity they need to make their digital collections thrive.

E-LENDING SOLUTIONS

De Marque is a founding member of the Readium Foundation, which main goal is to develop an EPUB digital reader optimized for mobile applications based on Open Source technology.

LCPTogether with with the Readium Foundation, we participate in the development of LCP (Lightweight Content Protection), a new DRM technology. This project aims to make using DRMs a lot easier for the end user, including avoiding dependencies to a company.

For more information : readium.org

READIUM FOUNDATION

QA PROCESSES FOR EBOOKSUpon receving EPUB files, we extract covers and validate their size

(must be1400 pixels min)

We run an EpubCheck (based on IDPF’s validator) on all EPUB files and prevent selling files that do not comply

We filter the type of files we send to each retailers based on their specs and requests

Publishers can upload several types of files for the same title in order to meet retailers specific needs

Metadata QA: ONIX, XML, CSV and Excel spreadsheets

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