PUBLISHING SYSTEM

• US 20090327850A1
• Filed: 07/28/2008
• Published: 12/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fusion Books Pty., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Fusion Books Pty., Ltd.
• Inventors: Perkins, Melanie, Obrecht, Cliff
• Application Number:
  US12/181,262
• Publication Number:
  US 20090327850A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/210
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191

Abstract

A publishing system and method for producing a print ready electronic publication, the system comprising a data storage device arranged to store structure data indicative of the structure of a publication and content data indicative of content usable in the publication; the system being arranged to facilitate creation of a publication structure by a first user group comprising at least one first user, the publication structure being arranged to receive publication content; and the system being arranged to facilitate reception of content from a second group of users including at least one second user; wherein the content and location of the content in the publication structure is selectable by one or more first user from the content received from the second user group.

Claims

23. A publishing system for producing a print ready electronic publication, the system comprising:

a data storage device arranged to store structure data indicative of the structure of a publication and content data indicative of content usable in the publication;

a plurality of predefined page types, each page type being configured to receive content;

the system being arranged to facilitate selection of one or more predefined page types for inclusion in a publication structure;

the system being arranged to facilitate reception of content; and

the received content and location of the received content in the publication structure being selectable by one or more user.

24. A method of producing a print ready electronic publication, the method comprising:

storing structure data indicative of the structure of a publication and content data indicative of content usable in the publication;

creating a publication structure by a first user group comprising at least one first user, the publication structure being arranged to receive publication content;

receiving content from a second group of users including at least one second user; and

selecting content to be included in the publication from the received content and the location of the selected content in the publication structure by one or more first user.

25. A method as claimed in claim 24, comprising receiving images from at least the second user group, and facilitating selection of one or more images for inclusion in the publication structure by a first user.

26. A method as claimed in claim 24, comprising creating a plurality of predefined page types, each page type being configured to receive content, and facilitating selection of one or more predefined page types for inclusion in the publication structure.

27-1. A method as claimed in claim 27, comprising communicating to a second user when the second user has been selected by a first user to contribute to a page type.

28. A method of producing a print ready electronic publication, the method comprising:

storing structure data indicative of the structure of a publication and content data indicative of content usable in the publication;

providing a plurality of predefined page types, each page type being configured to receive content;

selecting one or more predefined page type for inclusion in a publication structure;

receiving content from one or more user associated with the system; and

selecting the content to be included in the selected page types from the received content and the location of the received content in the publication structure.