Editing Directmedia Publishing

{{short description|German publishing house}}
[[File:Wikipedia-CD 2004.JPG|thumb|German Wikipedia CD]]
'''Directmedia Publishing''' is a German [[publishing|publishing house]] created in January 1995 by Ralf Szymanski and Erwin Jurschitza as a publisher of [[digital media]]. The emphasis of the publishing house's content lies within the field of [[digital library|digital libraries]], particularly scientific collections of texts, and [[encyclopedia|encyclopaedias]].

In co-operation with the [[Reclam]] publishing house in [[Stuttgart]], Directmedia Publishing published the series ''Reclam Klassiker auf CD-ROM'' (Reclam classical authors on CD-ROM), which presents individual works of the [[German language]] [[wiktionary:canon|literary canon]]. The first [[German Wikipedia]] CD was [[electronic publishing|published]] by Directmedia Publishing in October 2004, and was followed by a [[DVD-ROM]] (and [[CD-ROM]]) in April 2005. In the first ten days the second edition was presold, 10,000 copies were purchased, 8,000 on [[Amazon.com|Amazon.de]].

Directmedia's sister enterprise, The Yorck Project (based in Yorck road, [[Berlin]]), specialises in the publication of CDs or DVDs with extensive picture collections including art, photography and historical illustrations. The software used to display content runs under [[Microsoft Windows]] and [[Mac OS X]], with a beta version for [[Linux]] also available. In April 2005, Directmedia contributed scans of 10,000 public domain paintings to the [[Wikimedia Commons]] project. In 2007 The Yorck Project was renamed to Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH and started the online digital library [[Zeno.org]] in October 2007.

In 2008 Directmedia Publishing and its sister Zenodot were sold and transferred to [[Brașov]] (Romania), led by Claudia Maria Buflea. Zeno.org is meanwhile owned by a non-related company named ''Contumax''.<ref>Full company name is “Contumax GmbH & Co. KG”, compare [http://www.zeno.org/Zeno/-/Impressum Impressum] (legal notice) of Zeno.org (German, retrieved on 8 March 2016).</ref> The content of Zenodot and DirectMedia Publishing remains nonetheless available.

==External links==
{{commons category|Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft}}
* [http://www.digitale-bibliothek.de/ Digitale-bibliothek.de], now [http://www.versand-as.de/ Versand-AS] with products from Directmedia {{in lang|de}}
* [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Yorck_Project Wikimedia Commons "Yorck Project" category (all images listed alphabetically by artist)]
* [[n:German Wikipedia DVD sells out first 10,000-copy run|Wikinews article about the publication of the German Wikipedia DVD]], April 2005
* [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:10.000_paintings_from_Directmedia Information about the state of the integration of the 10,000 scans]

== References ==
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