“Pretty conventional” is how head of operations Meena Prakash describes Lapiz Digital’s service choices. “E-book conversion, which has been our energy, has grown 33% prior to now 12 months, largely on account of referrals and self-publishing purchasers,” says Prakash, whose staff has processed multiple million pages in each English and different languages over the previous six months.
One memorable mission was a workbook conversion with further options similar to title fields, fill-in-the-box sections, drop-down lists, and backend knowledge storage with touch-screen choices. “We turned across the mission efficiently, inside funds and the timeframe given, which made the shopper pleased and resulted in a optimistic influence on our 2023 volumes allocation from that shopper—which, in flip, made us very pleased,” Prakash says.
Interactive e-book conversions are experiencing a surge in recognition at Lapiz. “As annually passes and newer interactive options emerge, our staff has been researching, studying, enhancing, and refining our choices to satisfy these evolving necessities and recommending cost-effective options to our purchasers,” Prakash says. “With the rise of on-line studying platforms and the elevated adoption of digital instructional sources, there’s a rising demand for interactive and multimedia parts in instructional content material, and we’re definitely seeing such demand mirrored in our e-book initiatives and HTML deliverables.”
A trending demand in latest months has been for easy to reasonably complicated animated EPUBs to boost consumer expertise with out compromising the efficiency of content material on handheld gadgets. Prakash recollects one mission requiring JavaScript object notation (JSON) animations, for which the staff created a wide range of animated visible aids, starting from simple to complicated, to make the course materials extra immersive and satisfying for college students whereas enhancing their comprehension.
One other mission concerned an inactive shopper’s request for the staff to take over an unfinished mission. “The shopper was sad with the way in which the extremely complicated mission was dealt with by current suppliers; we accomplished it throughout the funds and timeline to our shopper’s satisfaction,” Prakash says. “Then there have been a number of complicated initiatives arriving very late from extremely demanding purchasers. Happily, we’ve groups which are cross-trained and possess versatile talent units as an alternative of being compartmentalized based mostly on mission stage or course of. The seamless coordination throughout the groups and with respective purchasers made the supply potential.”
The corporate stays dedicated to the standard typesetting and e-book conversions with which it’s recognized, Prakash says. “Our experience lies in journals and e book manufacturing, with a selected concentrate on mathematical and engineering journals and academic titles. What units us aside is our capacity to supply a versatile schedule, ship distinctive high quality, and showcase glorious mission administration abilities.”
A model of this text appeared within the 07/10/2023 difficulty of Publishers Weekly beneath the headline: Lapiz Digital Continues Doing What It Does Greatest
