Hello clients, partners and friends,

I hope you are all doing well. We have some exciting announcements this month, so let's get right to it:

Incentive Program for Current Clients
Refer an eBook to another line of business in your company or to an outside partner, and receive a 15% discount off of your next eBook with us. Please contact Dave Kalman at dkalman@terrella.com for
more details.

Minnick Web Services Now Offers Digital Editions

As promised last month, we've just added digital editions to our ePublishing product line, enabling you to deliver online magazines in the most cost-effective, legible, and user-friendly format available today.

As you know, with digital editions you can extend your magazines' reach (or create new magazines) without the expense of printing and postage. Simply provide a PDF – the standard for magazine production – and MWS converts it into an attractive digital edition that can be embedded in a Web page and launched using a standard Flash-enabled Web browser.

MWS's digital edition solution is built on a combination of the Issuu platform and our existing ePublishing infrastructure, a.k.a. StatReport. Issuu (pronounced "issue") is a popular new social publishing community with thousands of users driving development of its Flash-based viewer. With the Issuu platform, MWS can customize the viewer's look and program its behavior through a JavaScript API. Our ePublishing infrastructure – which provides audience management, monitoring, and reporting – has served for more than ten years as the foundation of our successful eBook service.

With the combination of MWS and Issuu, you will get digital editions that readers actually enjoy, plus the customization and management features that professional publishers require. You will also see a significant savings because of the economies of working with the Issuu platform.

To find out more about pricing and getting started with a digital edition or eBook, email David Kalman at dkalman@terrella.com, or call him at 650-270-6712.

Mara Shank is Now a Certified Usability Analyst

MWS Senior Web Development Project Manager Mara Shank is now a Certified Usability Analyst (CUA). Mara completed her CUA training in January and passed the Human Factors International Usability Analyst Certification Exam in March. With a Usability Analyst on board, we now have an enhanced ability to plan projects with the user perspective in mind. Mara's certification coursework included user-centered design, effective Web and application design, usability testing, and how to put usability research into practice. Mara is also our resident expert in search engine optimization (SEO).

To find out more about having Mara analyze your site's usability and/or SEO, please contact us at 916-551-1453 or via our contact form at www.minnickweb.com/contact.

Get Mile High with Chris and Margaret

On April 27th and 28th, Chris and I will be attending the Niche Magazine Conference in Denver. If you'll be there, too, let us know so that we can make plans to get together!

I hope everything is going well for you, and I wish all the best to you and yours.

— Margaret Minnick