ELBE-JEETZEL-ZEITUNG

A case study in European cooperation to deliver a first-class digital reading experience.

A NEW APP FOR THE READERS OF THE ELBE-JEETZEL-ZEITUNG (EJZ), THE OFFICIAL DISTRICT NEWSPAPER OF THE DISTRICT OF LÜCHOW-DANNENBERG, GERMANY

Commenting on the app, Dr. Hanno Saade, Managing Director of Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft Köhring GmbH & Co. KG, the publisher of the Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung commented:

"This is simply the best solution for our readers! We sought to find the best partners to deliver a great app with optimal price and performance in mind. The perfect partners were quickly found drawing on the expertise of X-CAGO headquartered in The Netherlands who convert our content into a digital format, and the app pioneers from Textalk headquartered in Sweden who developed our new mobile application. The result: a successful collaboration with the project delivered on time and on budget. With the new EJZ app, our readers can find out about local news and news from all over the world at any time - quickly, easily, from anywhere and on any device.”

The commissioning of the new Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung Elbe-Jeetzel app delivered the publisher:

  • Perfect conversion of the published content for an optimal app reading experience

  • Optimal Pricing and Performance

  • Project delivery on time and on budget

  • Satisfied, well informed readers

THE PARTNERS

A BRIEF INTRODUCTION

EJZ was created from the merger of the three newspapers: Allgemeiner Anzeiger and Zeitung für das Wendland (both from Lüchow) and the Jeetzel-Zeitung Dannenberg. EJZ is published by Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft Köhring GmbH & Co. KG in Lüchow. The publishing house also publishes the free weekly newspaper Elbe-Jeetzel-Kiebitz every Wednesday. Users of the new EJZ app can start accessing the content and articles of the printed edition from the evening prior with the complete epaper edition then available in the app from the same time as the printed edition.

THE ELBE-JEETZEL ZEITUNG (EJZ) NEWSPAPER

X-CAGO B.V.

Founded in The Netherlands, X-CAGO is internationally renowned for converting and standardising a wide variety of content formats to enable further commercialisation, syndication and content aggregation on behalf of publishers as well as for its leading digital archive solution, Archive ExPress™, which many leading publishers also use as a content distribution platform. For the new EJZ app, X-CAGO digitally optimised and prepared the publisher's content.

PRENLY BY TEXTALK

Since 1979, Textalk has simplified and made available communication and transactions between people, companies and organisations. Textalk is the market leader for ePaper’s in Northern Europe. Global publishers trust Prenly for their cost effective solutions with a strong focus on quality, performance and user experience. Prenly apps offer their users unparalleled speed and ease of use.

ADVICE & SOLUTIONS

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FOR MORE INFORMATION

Please contact X-CAGO for more information at sales@x-cago.com

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    X-CAGO currently processes more than 5,000 newspaper and magazine titles from PDF input files into one or more XML/JSON output formats.

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    This involves the digitsation of hard copy archival content for media companies / publishers.

  • ARCHIVE EXPRESS

    Archive ExPress successfully captures, stores, researches, publishes, distributes and syndicates content from both print media (newspapers, magazines, books, catalogues, etc.) and digital media.

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