Background
- Renovium is a hospitality publisher that also provides full-service publishing to other associations, from content creation to printing
- Renovium discovered us through the Pauli partnership and saw a path to bundle gastronomy & service content
Challenges
- Selling a print book once while maintaining multiple digital add-ons for years creates unsustainable cost structures
- Global reach barriers: logistics (shipping costs) block access to many countries; unreliable in-country partners lead to lost revenues and IP piracy
- Country-specific regulations, safety, culture require tailored editions, but print workflows make this cost-prohibitive
Goals
- Flip the model to digital-first with recurring subscriptions, and print-on-request
- Single-source workflow: Author once → output both print-PDF and digital (Bitmark) near-zero manual work
- Mass localization: Produce dozens of country editions (e.g., 50 for WorldSkills) with special editions per country
- Hyper-scaling enterprise distribution: from selling few books/year to 5-digit corporate licenses
Solution
- Digital-first publishing stack from Word to Bitmark
- Diff Book® technology enables Special Editions for local markets, corporate variants, and team collab.
- Example add-ons: flashcards, quizzes, video footage, company policies
- Dynamic pricing in 150+ currencies unlock unreachable markets
- Print-on-request for subscribers -> no inventory
