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| Mira Launches Self-Publishing Website - Mirabooksmart.com! |
| Mira Digital Publishing now has a website for our self-publishing customers. Go to www.Mirabooksmart.com to find out about |
| our self-publishing products and services, book printing, as well as an FAQ and resource section to help you with your project. |
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| Learn About Our Digital Storefront - MirasmartSHOP.com |
| Mira Digital Publishing is now offering online service and fulfillment for our authors. Our web based solution will simplify and automate the |
| buying process and leave our authors hands free. For more information, download our MirasmartSHOP PDF form. |
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| What is MirasmartSHOP? |
 Our Digital Storefront is a website. It offers goods and services online, allowing your customers to order from our site… |
| anywhere, at any time. Visit our storefront at www.MirasmartSHOP.com. |
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| How does it work? |
| When you direct your customers to our Digital Storefront, they can buy your books right from your author web page. |
| Mira will fulfill any order made on your page and pay you for the transaction. |
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| How do you get started? |
| Just fill out our MirasmartSHOP PDF form with your book information for the Digital Storefront. |
| Choose to either order 25 units or pay the $35 flat fee and ship us 25 units. |
| Email your form to jillm@mirasmart.com or fax it to 314-776-2470. |
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| Press Releases & posterSMART |
| Mira now has press releases online. To view our press release page, click here. |
| posterSMART™ - online viewing of poster presentations and poster printing is now available. |
| To learn about our posterSMART™ program, click here. |
| To read more about large format printing, visit our printing page. |
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| Green is more than a color in our company logo, it's the way we do business. At Mira Digital Publishing, as we |
| strive to provide state-of-the-art products and premier services, we also work everyday to reduce our carbon |
| "foot print." |
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| Here are just a few of the things we do to make our world a better place: |
| Recycled 100% of paper and cardboard waste using GreenFiber www.greenfiber.com--a manufacturer |
| of natural fiber insulation, fire, and sound products. |
| Recycled 100% of CD / DVD waste. |
| Provided online tools to customers. |
| Identified and aligned itself with environmentally conscious suppliers for packaging (CD / DVD), paper |
| stock, as well as other materials used in the normal course of business. |
| Ensured that all paper at Mira comes from the forests and mills of International Paper through their local |
| subsidiary, Xpedx. International Paper is FSC, SFI, and PEFC certified. |
| Conducted regular meetings with Mira Digital Publishing personnel to discuss energy and resource-saving |
| measures. |
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| Who are we? |
| Mira Digital Publishing is a St. Louis-based company founded in April 1990 and has worked with the conference |
| industry ever since, providing our clients with conference CDs, books, and website hosting, along with supplemental |
| or stand-alone journals. From concept to finished product, we also provide printing and graphic design to |
| self-publishing authors and organizations. |
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| Our Technology. Your Control. |
| What do we do? |
| Conference publishing |
| website hosting |
| CD / DVD and online archiving |
| file conversion |
| searchable index files |
| CD packaging |
| book production |
| editing |
| digital printing |
| fulfillment |
| composition and prepress |
| abstract management |
| graphic design |
| online peer review |
| online itinerary |
| speaker management |
| Journal publishing |
| printed journal publication |
| online submissions and peer review |
| online archives |
| Variable Data Printing |
| editing |
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| in-depth |
| cover art |
| book accessories |
| bookmarks |
| dust jacket design |
| hand-out stickers |
| postcards |
| flyers |
| fulfillment |
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| How it works: |
| Conference publishing: |
| Over one hundred organizations from numerous disciplines now depend on Mira for their continued publishing |
| needs. Our customizable software and personal training provides our customers specific solutions for a variety |
| of needs. Whether your conference is small or large, Mira’s detailed customer service and thriving conference |
| planning and publishing services will help streamline your conference activities, and we’ll be there from start to finish. |
| Mira enables all our clients to collect and organize author information, presentations, session preferences, and |
| any other data using our program called submitSMART™. submitSMART™ allows for flexible, 24/7 editing of |
| content, formatting, and any other specifications for our clients. |
| Mira clients are also able to easily review submissions using reviewSMART™. Even if clients encounter thousands |
| of submissions, reviewSMART™ enables quick and easy access, making it easy to revise and ready papers for |
| conference sessions and presentations. |
| Once our clients have determined which papers have made it through the review process, Mira’s programSMART™ |
| can help with planning each conference. This program enables the division of each conference into appropriate |
| sessions and also enables revisions whenever necessary—hassle free. |
| Once the conference schedule has been determined, attendees can access the conference program through |
| attendSMART™ and save their itineraries and preferences regarding schedules and sessions. Attendees can also |
| search through the conference information by author name, keywords, title, etc. |
| For those who are unable to make it to any conference, Mira has created librarySMART™, our online content archive, |
| and indexSMART™, our customizable CD or DVD archives that can be taken home and are compatible with any platform. |
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| Journal Publishing: |
| Mira is proud to offer journal publishing options to all our clients. Whether your journal is supplemental to your |
| conference or a stand-alone publication, Mira will work with you to give you the most comprehensive online |
| peer-review and reviewing capabilities. |
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| Utilizing the same tools and expertise that apply to successful meeting and conference proceedings, Mira can |
| publish your work in the smallest periodical frames of time. With emails and blogs, news of the moment is just a |
| few clicks away. So it is in the same way that Mira's submitSMART™ enables easy submission of scholarly journals. |
| Editors and co-editors are then able to review each article using our reviewSMART™ program hassle-free. The final |
| edit of what used to be a gallery proof takes minutes instead of hours. We're digital. When someone yells "Start |
| the presses!" at Mira, it's easy as turning on the lights. |
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| But what about those few who are not connected? They are sometimes those most in need for the information. Mira can |
| print and publish using electronic multimedia as well as paper. We are centrally located in the United States and we |
| haven’t forgotten how to put a package on a doorstep in Frankfurt, Germany, the very next day. |
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| Self-Publishing: |
| Our project managers and production staff will work with you to ensure that your book is exactly how you want it. |
| Editing services will help your publication read professionally by providing a revised copy completely free of spelling, |
| punctuation, and grammar mistakes. Production technicians then prepare the books for print using Adobe Acrobat |
| plug-ins such as Quite Imposing, ARTS PDF Aerialist, and Enfocus Pitstop. A proof is sent to you for approval before |
| the final print process begins. |
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| Mira Digital Publishing uses the latest in print technology to give your book the most polished look possible. Here is |
| a rundown of what the print process typically entails: |
| imagePress C1 - All covers and artwork are printed through here at topnotch quality. |
| PL-1200 lamination - Covers may then be laminated using gloss or matte, giving the cover longevity. |
| imageRUNNER 110 - Most book printing takes place here, using the latest in print technology to efficiently |
| produce over 100 two-sided pages per minute. Color pages can be printed on our C1 printer, and then later |
| inserted into the main body text. |
| Bourg Perfect Binder - Text and covers are then brought together to make a perfect bound (paperback) book. |
| Books thin or thick, numbering 15-850 pages, are bound using a powerful adhesive for the spine. |
| Champion 30.5-inch Cutter - Bound books are then trimmed to size for a complete, polished look. |
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| Mira also offers alternative binding options, such as saddle stitch (stapled), case bound (hardback), and spiral binding. |
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