Progressive Publishing System (PPS) allows independent publishers easy access to the new electronic publishing platforms, and mobile devices, and associated revenue streams. Publishers can publish free and/or paid content, publish independently using their own Apps or via ePublications produced using PPS. They can also publish in a consortium setting using our Progressive Publishing Portal (PPP), which aggregates content from members.

1. Progressive Publishing System (PPS)
Easy access to new publishing platforms and revenues
• POD
• eBook
- ePub
Publisher’s - Kindle
content - • iPad
Publication Platforms
free and • iPhone
Management
paid • Android
• Tablet
• Mobile
• Web
• InDesign
Revenue
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2. Progressive Publishing System
Multi platform publishing, management and Article organiser - this
revenue system for progressive publishers can be controlled from
multiple locations and
by many user types
Sales
Orders TransCodex
(service, not a web site)
Stats Sales
Publisher’s
Orders
content -
Stats
free and Progressive
Publication
paid Publishing
Management
Portal also
available on
multiple platforms
Publisher chooses
Content converter output options
Third Party
Clean import APIs and platforms:
POD, Apps, eBooks,
TransCodex API tablets
Sales
Orders
Stats
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3. What, How, Why, For Whom?
What does it do?
• PPS converts, publishes, remixes, manages, and administers remuneration for written content on
multiple electronic platforms and mobile devices
(POD, eBooks, iPhone and mobiles, Apps and iPad/tablets).
• Content can be published to the PPP or the system can be used for publishers to facilitate their
own publishing onto the new platforms.
• Usage stats and revenues can be tracked across all platforms.
How does it do it?
• At its core is an API and content-conversion engine called TransCodex. This cleans, publishes
and tracks content, allowing it to be remixed and published to multiple platforms.
What problem is it solving?
• Publishers’ lack of access to new publishing platforms and associated revenues.
Who is it for?
• Authors, writers, editorial and publishing groups with a progressive social agenda and sufficient
organisational capacity to produce and manage editorial content.
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4. The process
The publisher
• Originates content (this can derive from a CMS, desktop client, database, tablet or mobile app).
• Makes content comply with PPS's XML standard.
• Organises (free and paid) content on an article-by-article basis. IDs articles accordingly.
TransCodex
• API – allows content to come in and out of the system, and content management on third party
platforms (either by the publisher or the third party).
• Sanitisation – XML removes extraneous formatting and standardises content for PPS.
• Management – article tracking and stats, payment and revisions.
• Remixing – creates new publications and changes article sequences (executed from multiple
locations; publishers sites via API, the TransCodex account, PPP, third party platforms via API).
• Outputting – TransCodex transforms content held as clean XML for any platform.
Publishing platforms
• TransCodex can be used to publish in two ways:
*PPP – aggregator highlighting member-publishers' content, available on multiple platforms.
*ePlatforms and APIs – publishing independent of the PPP, with remuneration models set by
the publisher.
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