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The second NextWave event in the Asia Pacific region has turned out to be a huge success.

Over 200 attendees came from all over Thailand and even all the way from Kuala Lumpur to experience presentations from our Gold Certified partner, ColourDoctor. Adobe's Community Leader in Thailand, Kajorn Bhirakit, gave a presentation about the newly released Adobe Creative Suite 6. Adobe's Benny Sriphet presented the latest information regarding Adobe's Digital Publishing suite. The event was topped off by three very interesting case studies from Digitall (Mars Magazine), Nation Broadcasting Corporation, and Show No Limit. read more >>

Tablet publishing is alive and kicking in Indonesia. Publishers here are not afraid to go for new opportunities and to innovate. Kompas Gramedia alone has 8 tablet apps in the app store and publishes daily not only to the iPad but also to Android and RIM's Playbook. Other publishers have followed suit with Media Indonesia, MRA, Tempo, Detik.com and Bali Post all having launched tablet apps with WoodWing. read more >>

Although not a complete surprise, Apple launched an impressive application at their New York event on January 21st: iBooks Author.

Together with iBooks 2, the update of iTunes U, the immediately availability of free (US) textbooks and the fact that iBooks and iBooks Author are free of charge, clearly shows Apple's ambitions regarding the educational market.

It was not a complete surprise since it was specifically mentioned in Jobs' biography: "In fact Jobs had his sights set on textbooks as the next business he wanted to transform. He believed it was a $8 billion a year industry ripe for digital destruction."

You can imagine that we at WoodWing were specifically interested in iBooks Author as the creation tool. read more >>

WoodWing would like to welcome Hearst Communication's Food Network Magazine to Apple's App Store. Representing the first app from the iconic network, this magazine was built with WoodWing's Tablet Publishing Solution and contains features such as interactive recipes, how-to videos, and a shopping list feature that lets end-users choose only what they need from each recipe. read more >>

WoodWing just completed its bi-annual publishing conference with over 300 attendees from customers and partners around the world (for more on that, visit our Community Site). Of particular interest was our forthcoming Newsfeed Publisher feature, which will allow customers to visually organize their content in Enterprise and publish it to mobile devices. read more >>