Value Chain International (VCIL), a global digital publishing specialist, announces today that it has enabled ePub titles to be rendered seamlessly within its online DX READER platform, which is used by libraries and institutions around the world. The titles will be fully DRM protected along with OEB and other XML files. more...

October 2008

ARE E-BOOKS WISE.COM?

In a WiFi enabled world, digital libraries are permanently accessible. Why then, Martyn Daniels wonders, is the book trade so enamoured with the idea of e-book downloads over any other model?

click to read full article published in the Bookseller Show Daily, Frankfurt 16th October 2008.

The Bookseller have kindly given permission for the article to be posted and all rights remain with them.

August 2008

SELL STUDENT STUFF.COM OFFERS DIGITAL TEXTBOOK RENTAL TO ITS STUDENT MEMBERS

UK-based student web site Sell Student Stuff.com has extended its reach and is now selling and renting E-books, thanks to Value Chain International Limited’s (VCIL) Digital Drop ShipTM solution.

Students can rent, any of the 20,000 E-books academic publisher Taylor and Francis has available online or buy them as downloads through Sell Student Stuff.com. more...

July 2008

Azurn's K2K offer coverage:

Digital Media 25th July: Azurn Launches Convergence Service more...

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June 2008

The Digital Debate: A round table organised by The Bookseller to celebrate its 150 years. The discussion looks to the digital future of the book, the industry and bookselling and among the panellists was Martyn Daniels, VP Media, Marketing and Publishing for Value Chain.

To read the article online click on: http://cde.cerosmedia.com/1P485a63ac3e2b0012.cde/page/110

To read a PDF of the article click on: Bookseller 150 round table

The Bookseller have kindly given permission for the article to be posted and all rights remain with them.

Azurn, Curtain research targets SME's, Business News Perth more...

Infosys Boss on the Move
The Australian

INFOSYS Australia founder Ananda Rao has resigned from the outsourcing provider and has revealed plans for a public float of a new venture.
 

2007

October 2007 Azurn acquires Value Chain

In October 2007 Azurn acquired Value Chain (International) Limited.

This strategic acquisition provided Azurn two key benefits:

• Existing client of blue chip clients within the publishing sector – a content intensive industry vertical where process collaboration leveraging Azurn MCP can make a great difference.
• Predictable running revenues and business relationships that can underpin further growth with certainty

Azurn’s business is all about business processes – automating business processes leveraging information technology and enhancing people effectiveness by leveraging patented technology that brings in convergence of voice, data and video within the security of the corporate firewall. By harnessing the ability to truly combine voice (PSTN) with IP (data), Azurn presents enterprises a hardware/software based customer premise equipment that allows complete process flexibility – the ability to leverage voice/data/video using any communication device using any carrier network, over the internet, broadband, telephone and wireless protocols.

One sector that is now available to exploit the power of this patented technology is “publishing”. As a result of the acquisition of VCIL, Azurn now has a client base of global players within the publishing sector. Within this sector, Azurn now has clients like Cengage (Thomson Learning), Taylor & Francis, Houghton Mifflin, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, Encyclopaedia Britannica etc. Publishing is a content heavy collaborative process and generally involves dispersed teams who have a constant need to review documents and take decisions. This process lends itself extremely well to the capabilities of process collaboration supported by the platform. Azurn through the acquisition of VCIL already has a global workforce active within the publishing sector and plans to start selling the capabilities into this vertical within the first quarter of 2008.
The same platform has also serious applications within the Education and Training sectors. Azurn already has agreements in place with global heavyweights like Intel and Xerox. These relationships inherited as part of the acquisition of VCIL, are related to specific projects within the education sector. Plans are already in place to leverage the capabilities of the multimedia platform within the education sector and the sales process has already started.

VCIL competes in the market with other digital publishing service providers to compose raw content into presentable, usable, sellable pages for print and electronic distribution. VCIL has to date produced over 15 million pages of content in complex XML-based digital outputs. VCIL has established a good reputation and long term relationships with its clients. IP and processes allow VCIL to provide world class services to convert content from any format to digital format, accompanied by proprietary software for conversion of rich content into XML.

The end-to-end digital publishing services comprise:

• Composition of raw content into presentable, usable, sellable pages for print and electronic distribution
• Conversion of content from any format to any digital format of customer’s choice
• Hosting of digital content in a secure environment
  eCommerce – Retail, Wholesale
• packaging & delivery of content to Aggregators and ‘Print on Demand’ Suppliers
• Development of publishing software products

April 2007 Value Chain partners with Xerox to deliver enhanced industry solutions

Globally based information management specialist Value Chain (International) Ltd ("Value Chain") and Xerox Corporation today announced an agreement to deliver enhanced collaborative business process and performance management solutions for financial services, human resources, insurance, and publishing and education sectors.
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