Moving Books:
The Process of Internet Publishing

by Laura Fillmore
President, Open Book Systems (OBS)

Copyright © 1996–2024 by Laura Fillmore; written permission required to reprint.
laura@obs.com

Following are two detailed examples of the processes and personnel requirements involved in web publishing projects. By walking through the listed examples you will acquire a sense of the human, technical and material issues as well as challenges involved in each online publishing project.

Living Digits: Moving Books

• Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (Simon & Schuster/Miramax)
• Restoration by Rose Tremain (Penguin/Miramax)

Stages of the Process

• Project Assignment
  
• The Deal
  
• Concept
  
• People Who Make it Happen
  
• Time Frame
  
• Tools
  
• Special Challenges
  
• Promotion
  
• Sales
  
• Results