Publishing technology brings dramatic technological change

Search Function Within the eBook

This helps you easily find the specific content in the book that you are looking for instead of searching through multiple pages. You also don’t have to check the contents page or index page. 

This feature is especially helpful for lengthy textbooks and academic books that you only refer to and have no reading cover. 

External Links Within the eBook

These are links that take you outside the book to a video, an image, or a website that explains something discussed in the book. 

This is especially helpful for textbooks and research, where complex concepts can be explained better with multimedia like video and audio.

Highlighting and Font Adjustment

Many ebooks allow you to adjust the font size for a better reading experience. 

You can also highlight parts you want to return to and easily access the highlights, making it convenient for users. 

Audio Features 

Audiobooks are becoming increasingly popular. Even with text ebooks, text-to-speech is a feature that allows you to listen to digital text instead of reading it. 

These functionalities make digital textual content and ebooks more engaging and accessible and expand the reach of publishing. 

For instance, it allows publishers to reach elderly readers as well as readers who face reading or language difficulties or issues with their vision. 

Platforms like Kitaboo offers multimedia and interactive features like video, audio, images, widgets, and read-aloud. 

Easy to Update

Ebooks and digitally published content can easily be updated compared to paper publishing. Additionally, it is often distributed through a cloud-based platform, which can easily and securely be updated. 

When an author or publisher updates information, readers and the audience can access it in the most recent form of the material. In today’s fast-paced world, published material can quickly become outdated. 

With the help of digital publishing technology, information can stay up-to-date, current, and relevant. This is especially helpful for educational, informative, and academic content. 

This helps students, researchers, and interested readers avoid relying on outdated information. It also helps authors and publishers because they can update information efficiently without worrying about reprinting (and the time and cost involved). 

Cost Effective and Timely Distribution

With publication technology, digital material can be downloaded online instead of traditional modes of physical delivery and distribution. Such a feature makes delivery cost-effective, accessible, and timely. 

It is especially useful in the case of textbooks or research material that is required on a timely basis. It saves on the cost of delivery and distribution and thereby increases profit margins for publishers and authors. 

What’s more, it can be delivered to a large number of people, which is helpful for course-related material. 

Online Reading and Databases 

As an increasing number of users do their reading online, there is a growth of online platforms where users can access articles, information, and books in a particular field or niche. 

These can be platforms dedicated to certain subjects or certain kinds of material like medical research, where multiple publishers can present their content for access. 

It could also be a platform that a single publisher uses to distribute digital content. 

Online Publishing Communities 

Online publishing communities have grown, which comprise users with a shared interest, such as an academic field or a particular niche of content. 

Publishers are increasingly seeking to access or develop online communities. 

The growth of digital technology has also enabled interactions between different readers relating to published material. It includes sharing notes, references, highlights, and reading suggestions. 

Distribution and Access to Target Audience 

These digital web technologies and communities help publishers to find their target readers and users more easily.

It also enables them to distribute published content in a more targeted manner. 

For instance, if a particular platform invites publications in one specific subject area, publishers can seek to get their work distributed through that platform.