Correspondence: Sandeep Malhotra, Vertical Solutions Group — Publishing, HCL Technologies, Plot 1 & 2, Sector 125, Maple Towers, Noida-Greater Noida Expressway, Noida (UP) 201301, India. Tel: +91 120 4046343; Fax: +91 120 4258946; E-mail: sandeepm@hcl.in

¹heads the Vertical Solutions Group for Publishing, Education and eLearning and has more than 12 years of experience in the industry and has been working for the past five years with world's leading publishers in Education, Trade, STM and LTR spaces. He has been instrumental in devising content, rights/royalty, assessment/testing, digital assessment management and rich media business, strategy and technology solutions. Sandeep, as an evangelist is responsible for concept to implementation of Content 2.0 solutions covering the Book, Newspaper and Magazine Publishing at HCL. Sandeep's focus area is editorial process optimization and network publishing.

Abstract

We spoke to Sandeep Malhotra of HCL Technologies on the current state and evolution of the publishing supply chain, with some input from Subhankar Bhattacharya, also of HCL.