Relaunch and further development of the self-publishing portal neobooks

Customer: Droemer Knaur
Project: Relaunch and further development of the self-publishing portal neobooks

  • Complete relaunch of one of Germany’s most popular self-publishing portals
  • Implementation and customization of the Content Management System Magnolia
  • Cleansing, consolidation and migration of the legacy system’s content (45,000 user / 40,000 ebooks)
  • Conception and implementation of a responsive mobile-first User Interface
  • Implementation of a microservice architecture for optimal scalability as well as lightweighted and automated deployments
  • Operational responsibility and 24/7 support of the website and the backoffice application
  • Continuous further development of the portal with features such as print-on-demand
  • Conception and development of an author app with current, detailled sales statistics (for iOS and Android)
  • Applied software technologies: Magnolia CMS, MySQL, Apache Tomcat, Varnish Cache, Elasticsearch, Scala, Java, Play 2, Freemarker, Sass, React, jQuery, Grunt, Bower, Swift, Android
  • Applied platform technologies: VMware vSphere, Linux, Chef, Zabbix, Ansible, Vagrant
  • Thanks to the developer team! It has done a very hard job over the last 10 months and has spent some weekend with building the new portal. The result is a really remarkable achievement.

    M. D.-A., Droemer Knaur

Success

  • Intuitive upload workflow for the self-publisher’s texts
  • Attractive personal space for every user for administrating profile data, ebooks, reviews, billing, and more
  • Mobile availability of latest sales statistics
  • Strengthening of the neobooks community through features such as forum, blog and messaging
  • Facilitation of the internal administration and billing process
  • Optimization of the ebook distribution to the web shops
  • Multi-client capable system that is also used by further licensees (e.g. tolino)

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Robert Kowalski jambit Head of Business Division Media

Robert Kowalski

Head of Business Division Media

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