Since the inception of our digital publishing efforts at the University of Minnesota Press, the work of making and selling ebooks has added to our traditional editorial, production, and marketing processes.
We have sought to alter our workflow and find digital tools to make the publishing process more efficient. Our thinking has shifted from a print-centric mindset, to book-in-many-formats mindset. In January 2013 we began looking for a vendor partner with the tools that would unify the manuscript