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[{"type":"text","content":"\n RNS Number : 5034A Publishing Technology PLC 09 October 2009 \n\n\n\n9 October 2009\n\nPublishing Technology partners with Sunmedia to launch Japan's leading online publishing platform\n\nPublishing Technology, the largest provider of software and services for the publishing industry, today announces its new partnership with Sunmedia, the Japanese content solutions provider. The agreement between the two organizations will see Publishing Technology deploy its innovative pub2web technology to rebuild Japan's leading online publishing platform as a robust new research service.\n\n\"We chose Publishing Technology because of their experience in multi-publisher and multi-lingual platforms,\" comments Shigeru Matsushita, Senior Vice President for Sunmedia. \"We also felt that they valued our relationship - Publishing Technology invested a lot of time in understanding our needs and building a prototype to ensure that our content would be compatible with their pub2web platform.\"\n\nSunmedia's current platform supplies Japanese researchers with full-text access online to 35 journals from seven publishers, and articles from over 4,000 journals through pay per view. The new service, PierOnline, will support a range of new features to better serve these publishers and their subscribers. \n\n\"We're very pleased to be sharing pub2web with Sunmedia's prestigious publisher collective and their audience, who we hope will benefit from the sophisticated functionality and design of the new site,\" says Douglas Wright, Executive Vice President of Publishing Technology's Scholarly Division. \"Partnering with such a progressive and prominent organisation gives us a strong presence in Japan, and furthers our commitment to international growth in such strategic markets.\"\n\nPublishing Technology's pub2web team is currently developing the information architecture and design of the new PierOnline site, and expects to release a beta site by the end of 2009. \n\nFor more information about pub2web, or the wider range of Publishing Technology products and services, please visit \nHall 4.2, Stand D416 at the Frankfurt Book Fair, or contact:\n\nEmily Taylor\nPublishing Technology plc\nTel: +44 (0)1865 397873\nEmail: [email protected]\n\nRichard Evans/Lizzie Linton\nThe C...