Introduction

Digital Publishing Overview
Welcome to a new world that is opening up in front of your eyes. Where words and sentences are fast becoming bits and bytes… Where books are no more tonnes of paper, but files and folders… Welcome to the world of Digital Publishing!

Digital Publishing & India
Globally, Digital Publishing is a $430 billion industry. In the west, digitization has witnessed a revolutionary growth. India has been a big beneficiary of digitization in terms of outsourcing. India is fast emerging as the hub of the Digital Publishing industry with its educated and trained workforce.
Major international publishers of books, journals, newspapers, magazines, children books, e-Books, e-Paper, directories, e-Learning content, Web content, Animation content, CBT's and WBT's such as Oxford, Cambridge University Press, Prentice Hall, Macmillan, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Pearson, Mc Graw Hill, Taylor and Francis have been outsourcing a lot of business to India in content transformation which has a price advantage of 40 percent.
Of the total titles produced in India, 45 percent are in English, making India the third largest producer of English books after US and Britain. With the fast emerging opportunities, we see that Digital Publishing is going to be a mammoth industry spawning exciting career opportunities.