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BETT 2025: A Buzzing Environment for Collaboration, Innovation and Discovery

Seshadri Subrahmanian

Seshadri Subrahmanian, COO PageMajik shares his experience at Bett 2025, the key takeaways from the event, while exploring the challenges and opportunities EdTech presents for India.

PageMajik and Newgen: Pioneering the Next Chapter in Publishing Innovation

PageMajik and Newgen KnowledgeWorks are pleased to announce a strategic collaboration aimed at providing a unified suite of advanced publishing solutions to better serve the evolving needs of publishers worldwide.

Project Day 2024 at the Nandavanam Center for Healing Education: A Celebration of Talent and Inclusion

It’s that time of the year when the students of the Nandavanam Center for Healing Education outshine themselves, and their ingenuity, creativity, skills and talents come alive.

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The Digital Literacy Program: A Newgen–Benetech Partnership

Newgen KnowledgeWorks and Benetech India have launched a digital literacy program for visually challenged children in India. The Digital Literacy Program kicked off on June 2024 in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, with the express aim of empowering students and making them digitally literate.

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From Books to Forests Newgen’s Eco Tree Project Engages 50K School Children

The effects of climate change are felt worldwide, highlighting the urgent need to address the triple planetary crisis: climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. For over two decades, Newgen has created urban mini forests to enhance biodiversity. Each year, over 4 acres of land are transformed into lush green spaces through our Eco Tree project.

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The Joy of Learning: Project Day at Nandavanam

The Nandavanam Center for Learning recently celebrated a day of artistic prowess and educational enlightenment during its much-anticipated ‘Learning Delights’ event, their project day.

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The changing landscape of ELT: takeaways from IATEFL 2024

Sam Richter, Operations Manager, ELL Newgen, talks about her experience, learnings and takeaways from the Brighton 2024 conference of the IATEFL.

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The Nandavanam Centre for Learning/ Healing celebrated its annual day, Navrasa 2024. Read the full account of the celebration here...

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A Dive into the Past

A team outing was planned for Nandavanam staff, it was a day filled with fun, learning and re-learning about the agricultural practices of Tamil Nadu.

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UK Publishing Trade Mission to Mexico

Caroline Boot, Director of Newgen English Language Learning, talks about her first visit to Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara (FiL), a different experience from the London and European Book Fairs, and her first impressions and takeaways from this experience.

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The Hues of Hope

Celebrating the New Year through Nandavanam’s young artists

The Nandavanam Healing Center provides unique spaces where children with developmental challenges find expression and healing.

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Box of Crayons: Project Day at Nandavanam, a Magnificent Success for Kids and Adults Alike!

Nandavanam is a CSR venture of Newgen KnowledgeWorks, focused on creating a space for the care and healing of underprivileged kids with disabilities.

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Inflaming the Intellects of Children’s Minds Leading Them Towards a Refined Career and a Privileged Life Ahead

Nandavanam is a CSR venture of Newgen KnowledgeWorks, focused on creating a space for the care and healing of underprivileged kids with disabilities.

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Log Off at Newgen

We are thrilled to share the highlights of an incredibly fun event that was organized right here in our office in Chennai.

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The Monthly Dispatch

While the publishing world is abuzz with book fairs, award shows and conferences, we at Newgen would like to bring you a round-up of the latest developments and the top news stories hitting the publishing industry

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ALPSP virtual conference and awards 2021

Newgen was delighted to join its industry colleagues from the scholarly publishing community at what is one of the publishing industry's most respected conferences.

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Newgen at the IPG Spring Conference 2021

This May, Newgen Publishing exhibited at the Independent Publishers Guild’s (IPG) 2021 Virtual Spring Conference.

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Digital Book World 2023 Reveals Publishing Opportunities

NEW YORK. Digital Book World 2023, held in midtown New York, January 16–18, hosted over 400 attendees—including representatives from large and small publishing companies, technology companies (like Spotify and Virtusales), and media outlets (Publishers Weekly and The Bookseller).

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Publishing Trends in India

Gowrishankar Natesan

Recent news of some well-known international publishers closing their Indian book divisions came as a surprise given that these brands have been in India for more than two decades.

Case Studies

Transforming Complex Educational Content at Scale: Enhancing Accessibility in eLearning Content

Newgen and Benetech have partnered to make Tamil Nadu’s Class 7 and 8 textbooks accessible, ensuring students with disabilities can engage with STEM education without barriers.

How IMPACT, Newgen’s Proofing and Editing Platform, Streamlined Interactions Between Authors, Production Editors, and Proof Collators

The client wanted to move away from a traditional proofing process that involved marking corrections on PDFs, which required manual validation by production editors and correction implementation by typesetters.

How Bespoke Workflows With an Offshore and Onshore Model Helped a University Press Double Their Turnover

A leading mid-sized University Press based in the UK, renowned for its growing influence in academic publishing. With an increasing number of international partnerships, overseas authors, and a significant shift toward digital content, they were positioned for expansion and aimed to double their publishing output of books and journals.

Empowering a Healthcare Journal

In this blog post, we'll delve into how Newgen played a pivotal role in the successful launch and growth of a leading healthcare journal. By providing a best-in-class platform, expert guidance, and cutting edge production we helped establish the journal as a trusted source of information in the field.

Transforming Access: How Newgen and Lived Places Publishing Are Revolutionizing Faculty Content Delivery

Lived Places Publishing (LPP) is on a mission to enhance the academic course reading market. To achieve its global expansion and mission, Newgen and LPP embarked on a transformative journey, and introduced several key innovations.

Elevating Academic Publishing: Schlager Group’s Strategic Digital Transformation with Newgen

The Schlager Group’s strategic digital transformation in partnership with Newgen has revolutionised their content hosting and distribution, enhancing accessibility and user experience for high school and undergraduate students.

Helping a Prestige Trade Publisher Expand into a New Area

Mayo Clinic Press is building a world-class publishing program featuring authors and experts from around the world weighing in on a broad scope of health subjects, including thought leadership, mental health, history, biography, the frontiers of medicine and more.

Reimagining Cookbooks for a Digital World with the Power of eBooks

Cookbooks have taken a new shape in this digital era, shifting the focus from just a recipe information hub to an experience-led piece of content.

Aiding the Wheels of Learning

One of the projects from Universal Technical Institute (UTI) that Newgen found very challenging was when it requested support in migrating its Adobe Flash e-learning modules to html5 within a short span.

How a Technology Solution Enabled the Seamless, Speedy and Precise Conversion of Multi-language Books

The world of reading has taken a dramatic turn with digital sophistication and the demand for e-books has also been on the rise since its inception.

Here’s What You Need to Know About Adopting Custom Workflows for Content Conversion

A legal looseleaf is a dynamic piece of content which is widely used in research related to law.

Automating the Data Conversion Process for Books on Demand

Headquartered in Norderstedt, Germany, Books on Demand GmbH is a publication service company focusing on self-publishing platforms.

Is it possible to ensure a high quantum of error-free file validation in a day?

Gatekeeper, a smart automated platform was developed to ensure high-quality, error-free validation.

Created Bestselling Travel eBooks for a Leading Publication – Frommer’s Travel Guide

Frommer’s is an esteemed and well-known travel publication in the world. They have published a series of travel guides that are popular and celebrated for the depth of content and recommendations that are added to their books.

Tight deadlines. A massive workload. Impressive outcomes.

Pearson Imaginarium is an English Language Learning series for the bilingual schools’ market in Mexico – schools that spend much, or all, of their instruction time in English.

Carrying a Teaching Legacy Forward

Reader's Choice 6th Edition is an ESL/EFL textbook for the teaching of academic skills.

Distributing e-files 30X faster

Ingram, an eBook distributor, specializes in print and online product distribution across the globe.

Delivered a Multi-component Language Course Material for One of the World’s Leading Education Publishers

Learning a new language is a whole new experience in itself. With increased globalization, learning a new language opens up new opportunities, imparts independence and gives an edge over the others in this competitive world.

The Great Outdoors, On Your Shelf

Falcon Guides, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, are best known in the publishing space for their exclusive content on outdoor activities such as bike riding, camping, foraging, hiking, paddling, rock climbing and their field guide series on wild flowers.

The Twin Weapons of Planning and Execution

One challenging project we managed for a prestigious university press was to take over journal production from their existing pre-press supplier.

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Culture at Newgen

What makes Newgen the kind of place where people spend years, even decades? What is it about the work culture that embraces people of various backgrounds and talents?

Executive Perspectives

Navigating Tech Disruption in Publishing: Key Challenges for Publishers

Technology and AI have transformed publishing, bringing both opportunities and disruptions. As Newgen works with publishers of all sizes, we’ve encountered a range of challenges across the publishing value chain.

A New Division. A New Chapter in Learning

Newgen’s student-centric approach to teaching and learning, has been creating opportunities for students and teachers alike. In this one-to-one Caroline Boot, the Director of the Newgen English Language Learning division, talks to us about what sets this division apart and its working styles.

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Partnerships for Accelerated Publishing

In today’s complex business world, driven by cost centricity above all else, we at Newgen explore what drives accelerated performance and fulfilling partnerships when working with leading publishers across disciplines and sectors.

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A Publisher’s Worst Fear? An Unreadable Book!

Discover how incorporating digital accessibility best practices can make eBooks accessible to everyone.

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Learning about Learning Platforms

It has been a few years since online learning crossed the threshold of the corporate world and journeyed into other industries.

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University Presses – Evolution and Future

An interview with Karan Malhotra

A veteran in sales and business development, Karan Malhotra has managed a portfolio of onshore and offshore projects and processes in publishing in the United States, India, Mexico and China.

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The European Accessibility Act 2025: The Time to Get Started is Now

There is a lot of buzz around the European Accessibility Act (EAA) that is coming into force in 2025 and businesses around the world have two years to ensure compliance and start the remediation process. In this brief interview, Awad would like to reassure companies that driving digital accessibility is not as complex, expensive, or challenging as it is made out to be. He answers a few frequently asked questions about digital accessibility in this interview…

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Leading Diverse and Dynamic Teams is Hugely Rewarding!

Meet Jo Bottrill, Managing Director, Newgen UK. Jo’s career in publishing spans more than two decades. He’s seen a significant amount of disruption in the publishing space. In the article below, he shares his views and learnings thus far and also what motivates him to forge ahead.

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Web Accessibility. Why It Matters.

Web Accessibility involves the qualities or attributes of a website or app that make it easy for people with disabilities to use.

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Publishing Platforms, XML Workflows and Good Metadata Management: Decoding the Essentials for a Successful Publisher

Jo Bottrill, MD, Newgen UK, talks about the importance of an online platform in today’s digital landscape, the importance of metadata, and the opportunities and challenges that publishers will have to brace for.

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Color Contrast in Web Design – How to Stay Accessible.

Accessibility efforts enhance color contrast so that everyone can read the complete information provided and leverage the relevant parts.

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What the Law Book Trade Needs in 2021

The year 2020 has been unique in all aspects, with a lot of it being challenging. Even pre-pandemic, handling the law book trade in India, which includes sales, distribution and collection, came with its challenges.

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Operating Systems are Redefining Publishing in this New-Normal World!

The pandemic has prompted a wave of leveraging technology to ensure that business efficiencies are not negatively impacted.

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Are You Using a Legacy Print Publishing Workflow to Support a Digital Model?

The speed at which the dynamic publishing domain is changing into is mindboggling. And as publishers face the challenge of having to deliver more content more frequently across multiple delivery channels, multiple devices and languages that are platform-agnostic. This shift to a digital dynamic model is challenging and constantly evolving.

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I Had My Book. But Not the Words to Thank Him.

World Book Day, celebrated this year on the 23rd April, aims to change people's lives through a shared love of books and reading. In most parts of the world, the day is observed by the theme of 'share a story'.

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Readability, Consistency and Quality of Content in Translated Documents

Multilingual desktop publishing plays an integral part in translating/localizing documents. It is essential that when content is translated, the fonts, design and layout when used in the original are maintained and that none of the fonts and styles is lost during translation.

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Digital Accessibility

Tim Berners-Lee

"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.”

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Digital Accessibility in the Legal Profession

The digital realm has transformed the world in immeasurable ways since the dawn of the World Wide Web. Digital platforms and their content play a significant part of daily lives.

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Rapidly Growing Demand for Digital Conversion Services

There is a growing interest among content users to move to digital platforms, especially since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic; consequently there's been an increase in demand for content digitization and conversion from one format to another.

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Innovative digital formats come up in the publishing market regularly, forcing companies to be compliant and compatible with new platforms.

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Updating a Lawyer, the Looseleaf Way

'Looseleaf' is a funny name! I heard it first in 2005. That was the year that Newgen’s Chennai office was given a law book for typesetting for the first time by a prominent US legal publisher.

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The Importance of Using Inclusive Language

Nicola Howcraft

What does 'inclusive' mean? As a former copy-editor, my first port of call was, of course, the trusted Oxford English Dictionary. Here the term is defined as 'deliberately avoiding usages that could be seen as excluding a particular social group'.

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How Introducing a Systematic Workflow Can Improve Publishing Productivity

One of the key issues faced by most authors is juggling between various formats during different stages of the production process.

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eBook Formats; All You Need to Know

There are multiple eBook formats available for readers, and the key question is, How do you choose the right one?

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Augmented Learning is Changing the Landscape of Educational Publishing

The common saying - a picture is worth a thousand words - is slowly transforming to - a video is worth a thousand pictures.

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Transformation of Quality Feedback Data into Analytics. The Newgen Way.

For the quality team at Newgen, continuous improvement is a cross-company endeavour, aimed at external as well as internal stakeholders.

Product Updates

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Enhancing EPUB Compatibility: The Value of Standardizing Content Creation

In the fast-paced world of digital publishing, EPUB has emerged as a popular and versatile format that allows content to be accessed and read seamlessly across multiple e-reader devices and platforms.

Podcasts

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Demystifying the Book Production Process

From copy-editing to repurposing for multiple formats, typesetting to cover design, discover exactly what’s involved in transforming a manuscript into a beautiful book you can be proud of.

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Publishing Platforms, XML and Metadata

This episode of the IPG Podcast discusses the value of publishing platforms, XML workflows and good metadata management with Jo Bottrill of Newgen KnowledgeWorks.

MUST READS

medical books

The Twin Weapons of Planning and Execution

A challenging project we had managed for a reputed university press was to take over production of their journals from their existing pre-press supplier.

Reader's choice 6th edition book

Carrying a teaching legacy forward

Reader's Choice 6th Edition is an ESL/EFL textbook for the teaching of academic skills. Its focus is on the reader's ability to select the proper skills or strategies to solve complex reading challenges.

An open multi-languae book

Readability, consistency and quality of content in translated documents

Multilingual desktop publishing plays an integral part in translating/localizing documents.

hand marking in a digital calendar

Are you using a legacy print publishing workflow to support a digital model?

The speed at which the dynamic publishing domain is morphing into is mindboggling.

A person reading a ebook

How adopting a technology solution helped in seamless conversion of multi-language books with speed and precision

The world of reading has taken a dramatic turn with digital sophistication and the demand for e-books has also been on the rise since its inception.

A hand pointing on analytics in a laptop

Transformation of Quality Feedback Data into Analytics. The Newgen Way.

For the quality team at Newgen, continuous improvement is an endeavour across the company, aimed at external as well as internal stakeholders.