Survey of Newspaper Production Flow for E-paper - Kungliga ...

5 ANALYSIS ......................................................................................................................................... 26
5.1. INTERESTING PARTS OF EXISTING PRODUCTION FLOW...................................................................... 26
5.2 PROPOSAL FOR AN E-PAPER PRODUCTION FLOW .............................................................................. 27
5.2.1 Handling subscribers and single copies .............................................................................. 28
5.2.2 Templates ............................................................................................................................ 28
5.2.3 Advertising ........................................................................................................................... 29
5.2.4 Editorial content ................................................................................................................... 30
5.2.5 Image workflow.................................................................................................................... 31
5.2.6 External content................................................................................................................... 31
5.3 E-PAPER PRODUCTION ENGINE........................................................................................................ 31
5.3.1 Production and storage........................................................................................................ 32
5.3.2 E-paper generator................................................................................................................ 32
6 DISCUSSION ..................................................................................................................................... 33
6.1 ON DEMAND OR FIXED EDITIONS? .................................................................................................... 33
6.2 PERSONALIZED EDITIONS AND GEOGRAPHICAL EDITIONS................................................................... 33
6.3 IMPORTANCE OF A UNIQUE NEWSPAPER EDITION............................................................................... 33
7 CONCLUSIONS ................................................................................................................................. 35
7.1 INTERNAL SYSTEMS......................................................................................................................... 35
7.2 EXTERNAL CONTENT AND EXTERNAL SUPPLIERS............................................................................... 35
7.3 NEWSPAPER ORGANISATION............................................................................................................ 35
7.4 BLOCKING PARAMETERS ................................................................................................................. 36
8 RECOMMENDED CONTINUED WORK............................................................................................ 37
8.1 INTERNAL SYSTEMS AND ORGANIZATION........................................................................................... 37
8.2 DESIRED NEW FORMATS OF EXTERNAL CONTENT.............................................................................. 37
8.3 CUSTOMER EXAMINATION AND FOCUS GROUPS................................................................................. 38
8.4 FORMAT AND FILE TYPE................................................................................................................... 38
9 REFERENCES ................................................................................................................................... 39
10 DICTIONARY ................................................................................................................................... 44
APPENDIX ............................................................................................................................................ 45
Figure index
Figure 1, Illustration of electronic ink [E-ink, 2002] ......................................................................................... 2
Figure 2, Intended area inside red rectangle ................................................................................................... 5
Figure 3, Editorial workflow [Sabelström Möller, 2001] .................................................................................. 9
Figure 4, Flow chart of production flow at Sundsvalls Tidning, [Kjellin, 2005; Eklund, 2005; Söderlund,
2005; Boström, 2005; Teir, 2005; Lindström, 2005; Rehn et Al, 2004; Welander, 2005]...... 12
Figure 5, Systems that could be part of a future e-paper workflow. ........................................................... 26
Figure 6, Flowchart of a proposed e-paper production flow. ....................................................................... 27
Figure 7, Examples of e-paper template design, Component positions taken from Svenåke Boströms
e-paper design proposal, version 12. ............................................................................................ 28
Figure 8, Editorial content storage and file types .......................................................................................... 30