codeMantra Offers Digital Conversion & Distribution Services to Spanish Publishers

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codeMantra Offers Digital Conversion & Distribution Services to Spanish Publishers

(January 27, 2011, Plymouth Meeting, PA) codeMantra, LLC, a leading provider of digital publishing software and services announced today that it will offer its full suite of conversion and distribution services to the Spanish publishing market. As part of this initiative, the company is in the process of building out its Spanish-language capabilities for eBook conversion (ePub, PDF, and XML) and is developing a localized version of its collectionPoint^® digital asset management (DAM) and distribution asset distribution (DAD) platform.

“Mobile devices and content providers are bringing digital publishing to an ever-expanding universe of non-English speaking markets,” said Paul DeMarco, Director of Client Services at codeMantra. “Whereas the global Spanish-language population exceeds 450 million and is a growing component of U.S. publishing revenues, it makes eminent sense for us to have a strong presence in this market.”

Michael Gordon will head up business development and sales for codeMantra, from a base of operations in Barcelona, Spain. Gordon, a bilingual American with a background in B2B software sales and marketing, will be responsible for the company’s Spanish client-base and managing relationships with Spanish-language partners.

“The Spanish market for eBooks is poised to take off. And while there is tremendous excitement for a digital publishing future, there are also concerns over what the future holds. codeMantra’s blended offering of production services combined with publisher-controlled distribution services will be well received by Spanish houses,” said Gordon.

Gordon will join the codeMantra team at O’Reilly’s Tools of Change conference in New York City February 14-16 where he will be on hand to meet Spanish publishers and introduce them to codeMantra´s upcoming release of collectionPoint.

About codeMantra

Based in Plymouth Meeting, PA, codeMantra, LLC brings a managed approach to digital publishing with people, process and technology. The company’s reputation is built on quality conversion services and the introduction of processes and tools that enhance any digital workplace. codeMantra’s Universal PDF^™ is widely embraced as the one format that meets the requirements for the dominant digital library offerings and “search-inside-the–book” vehicles. The company’s pubXML is a flexible data model, or Document Type Definition (DTD), which can be readily configured to deliver all viable digital formats including ePub, Kindle (Amazon), mobiPocket, iPAD (Apple), HTML, XHTML, PDF, BBeB (Sony), Palm, NFO (net library) and ASCII.

collectionPoint^® is the company’s unique DAM/DAD offering of digital asset management, workflow and distribution capabilities built on file server technology. Through the use of codeMantra’s tools and services, publishers are able to fully, efficiently and cost effectively manage their content from initial creation to final distribution.

codeMantra employs more than 700 technicians, application developers and project managers out of its production facilities in Chennai, India. The company’s active customer list includes marquee publishing brands including Pearson Education, Penguin U.K., McGraw-Hill, Oxford University Press, Elsevier Science, John Wiley & Sons, Cengage Learning, Simon & Schuster, Continuum International Publishing, New York University Press, University of North Carolina Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, University of Minnesota Press, Springer Publishing Company and Gibson Publishing Connections, among others. More about the company can be found online at www.codemantra.com.

For further information about our Spanish publishing services contact Michael Gordon at: spaninfo@codemantra.com or +34 607 261 801