ETC Press uses two kinds of technology to publish projects.
The first is layout and design applications that allow us to easily create books in multiple formats: print and interactive PDFs, and various eBook files. These applications work through templates that separate the content of the book from the design of the book, exactly like a content management system like WordPress does when you post something to a website.
While this system reduces some of the traditional design elements you might want (for instance: we can’t do sidebars because digital books don’t really have sidebars), it enables us to quickly and easily get a book or journal into multiple formats with one design. And we can often turn around those projects in just a day or two.
The second is on-demand distribution services for both print and digital. We partner with Lulu, an on-demand publisher that gives us one-stop access to all the major online retailers and allows our book to be searchable by libraries and bookstores. We have an agreement with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to list ETC Press book publications in the ACM Digital Library and all our publications are in CMU Libraries digital repository. We also work with The Game Crafter to produce tabletop games.
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