Formats and the LDW

The LibreDigital Internet Digital Warehouse for Publishers (LDW) is a hosted solution designed specifically to solve the digital dilemma for publishers.

- The LDW saves money because it eliminates the need for publishers to create, maintain and regulate their own repository.
- The LDW makes it east to populate websites with content to vend.
- The LDW automates the production and delivery of clips or snippets with full controls.
- The LDW can support any device type, now and in the future.
- The LDW provides massive security and controls that remain always under the control of the publisher.
- The LDW handles large-scale digitization projects.
- The LDW provides a digital solution for publishers of any size and who handle any media file types.

Digitize once, render endlessly, free of formatting issues

It is puzzling that file formats can be so problematic for Book Publishers, but competing standards and the emergence of new eReaders make Publishers painfully aware of format requirements. The LibreDigital LDW solves the file format dilemma because once files have been ingested into the LDW, they can then be served up upon request and rendered out in the requested file format, without manual intervention.

Audio Files

Currently the LDW recognizes these audio file types*:
- MPEG 3 recording (mp3)
- Quicktime
- RealMedia
- Microsoft WAV format (wav)

*additional or custom video file types can be accommodated on a customized basis.

Video Files

Currently the LDW recognizes these video file types*:
- Quicktime
- RealMedia
- Microsoft Windows AVI
- Adobe Flash
- MPEG-4 encoding

*additional or custom video file types can be accommodated on a customized basis.

eBooks

Currently the LDW recognizes these eBook file types*:
- Sony BbeB
- Microsoft OEB / Microsoft Reader
- ePub
- Adobe Reader
- Mobipocket
- Palm Reader
- Gemstar

*additional or custom video file types can be accommodated on a customized basis.

Within the LDW eBooks are whole data objects and are tagged with the corresponding ISBN number for vending.