Follett Digital Resources Headlines Digital Strategies Session at Publishing Business Conference
Digital Solutions Pioneer is also Silver Sponsor at New York Expo on March 23-25McHenry, Ill., March 16, 2008 – Follett Digital Resources, a division of Follett Corporation, announced today that Randy Merriman, the company’s Director of Business Development, will speak about content strategies for educational publishers at the upcoming Publishing Business Conference & Expo in New York. Follett Digital Resources also is a silver sponsor of this leading industry forum.
The 2009 expo – Your Publishing GPS – will be held March 23-25 at the New York Marriott Marquis and feature informational sessions focused on the economy and its effect on the publishing industry.
Follett Digital Resources will exhibit in Booth No. 616 at the expo. The company provides digital publishing software and solutions to K-12 educational publishers, including an e-Learning platform, eBook distribution solutions and development services for e-Learning products and systems (www.fdr.follett.com/lyceasolutions).
“Follett Digital Resources is grateful to be sponsoring the Publishing Expo as well as sharing our vision for effectively reusing content and digital delivery,” Merriman said. “Publishers need to think of their products not as one-off print products or textbooks, but as sets of educational content that can be customized, arranged, repurposed and reused in a variety of formats.”
Among the industry’s 100 top executives attending the conference, Merriman will present a session entitled, “Reuse, Repurpose, Recycle: Content Strategies to Strengthen Your Fiscal Environment.” The session will take place at 12:35pm on March 24.
A 20-year veteran of the K-12 publishing industry, Merriman has held senior e-Learning management positions at leading educational publishers, including Holt, Rinehart and Winston, and Mcmillan/McGraw-Hill, and has worked as a consultant to numerous K-12 publishers seeking to address market opportunities through technology and e-Learning.
“One sure way to succeed in the digitally focused 21st Century education marketplace is to develop processes and strategies to effectively reuse content and digital delivery,” Merriman said. “We’ll explore how publishers can effectively utilize content to maximize their investments, whether customizing textbooks for specific state requirements, or repurposing content into CDs, eBooks or formats accessible through iPods, cell phones or other digital devices.”
For more information on the conference, please visit www.publishingbusiness.com.
About Follett Digital Resources
As part of Follett Corporation and benefiting from more than 135 years of industry innovations and leadership, Follett Digital Resources provides software, services and experience to help publishers and educators meet the unique needs of 21st century learners. Drawing on deep expertise in the educational publishing and distribution fields, Follett Digital Resources delivers a single source for digital solutions that not only incorporates the most advanced technology available but is also exclusively focused on improving the learning process. Learn more at www.fdr.follett.com
