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New contract wins
New contract wins.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 3687C Publishing Technology PLC 15 April 2013 \n \n\n15 April 2013\nPublishing Technology plc\nNew contract wins\n \nPublishing Technology plc (AIM: PTO.L) (\"Publishing Technology\", the \"Group\", or the \"Company\"), the AIM quoted, leading provider of content systems, audience development and content delivery software and services to international publishers, information providers and academic institutions, is pleased to announce two new contract wins for advance and pub2web.\n \nInternational children's publisher Egmont International has chosen the advance platform to implement a global contracts and rights system, which will significantly transform the company's business processes by unifying the approach to contract and rights management.\n \nEgmont International is a cutting edge Scandinavian media company which operates through more than 100 subsidiaries in 30 countries covering magazines, books, television, film production and distribution, and cinemas. The company is owned by the Egmont Foundation, an organisation devoted to charitable activities for children.\n \nThe advance platform will provide Egmont Kids Media with a single, centralised and streamlined database containing all of its contract and rights information in a single resource.\n \nWith brands like Barbie™, Spiderman and Tintin, Egmont will be able to track the status of its contracts at every stage of the process, and manage rights, sub-rights, fragments and permissions more effectively across the company.\n \nThe new system will go live initially in the UK and Denmark before being potentially rolled out across all 30 worldwide offices. \n \nParis-based content aggregator Numérique Premium (a subsidiary of Nouveau Monde editions) has chosen Publishing Technology to provide a new, custom-built site for its ebook platform. The platform serves as the definitive digital library of essential classics, monographs and reference works in History and Social Sciences for the worldwide academic community\n \nThe new online hub, to be developed on pub2web, will be home to all currently available content, which, by the end of 2013, is estimated will total over 2000 titles, within 14 disciplines, from 25 publishers. The site will use Pub2web's agile technology to allow ebooks to be bundled into bespoke co...