Introduction

User Manual Overview

This is the AZARDI:Content Fulfilment (ACF) User Manual. It provides information on setting up, administering and using a controlled channel digital book content delivery system and an ACF driven e-Commerce publishing Website.

The manual is divided into three main sections to address the primary user types ACF works for. These are:

1. Unit 1. Business Management. A business management user is able to see and operate on all the business transactions that an account has.
2. Unit 2. Account Administration. An account administrator has the big back-end job of loading EPUBs, turning them into products and generally managing the organization of the accounts books.
3. Unit 3. ACF System Maintainer. A Maintainer's primary responsibility is to create accounts and control who can access them.

Note that the tools, actions and information in each of these sections is independent.

What ACF Does

AZARDI:Content Fulfilment allows publishers to control the sale and delivery of their digital content direct to content consumers from any website based on offer and agreement rights management built on the ODRL (Open Digital Rights Language). This means the publisher can offer a range of business options for different markets and users.

ACF has excellent content protection - Digital Rights Management (DRM) while empowering a wide range of digital content delivery and engagement business models.

ACF delivers content directly to customized AZARDI EPUB/EO Reading Systems which are provided with the system at no cost to the end user. NOTE: It cannot deliver DRM protected books to any other reading systems.

What Can Be Sold

1. Individual Books or Documents.This is a standard eRetail sales model
2. Collections of books or documents. This is particularly useful sales model for courseware and collections of textbooks for example.
3. Individual Book or Document Subscriptions. Subscriptions can be defined by Start-End dates, or subscription date for a subscription period.
4. Collections of books or documents Subscriptions. Subscriptions can be defined by Start-End dates, or subscription date for a subscription period. This is also useful for collections of textbooks that need to be active with a course or semester date.
5. Loan book. This is the library model. A book can be set for the number of copies that can be on loan simultaneous and how long a checked-out book will be active.
6. Periodical Subscription. This allows the sale of a subscription that will deliver periodical issues to the reader a defined number of times into the future.

How Digital Content Can Be Sold

1. EPUB open.
2. EPUB Watermarked.
3. EPUB secure delivery to any AZARDI desktop or mobile device reading system.
4. Browser access in major standards-compliant browsers.

How Digital Content Can Be Delivered

1. Individual online bookstore purchase and download of books.
2. Bulk institution downloads for registered school/institution users.
3. Local WiFi side-loading (for semester updates in schools and colleges with restricted bandwidth particularly in developing countries) for bulk deliveries.
4. USB delivery.

Reading Systems

The system uses only AZARDI Readers as the target reading system. A unique proposition is that because there are AZARDI Reading systems available for all platforms, ACF can deliver content to any platform including all Desktops, browsers and mobile devices.

ACF only supports EPUB2 and EPUB3 formats. It does not support PDF or any other format.

With ACF you can offer:

• Sales
• Subscriptions
• Library loans
• Periodicals

... and deliver:

• Books
• Collections of Books
• Courseware
• Periodical subscriptions

NB. Courseware and periodical subscriptions are categories that can only be used with a complete stand-alone license.