The DMI group
Every service from Digital Media Initiatives
Digital Media Reserve handles the rights management. It sits inside a group that also converts the manuscript, tags it for accessibility, describes it in ONIX and sells it — which means a publisher can get from a print file to a protected, accessible, discoverable edition without changing supplier four times.
Core services
Four things DMI does
eBook production
Print manuscripts converted to EPUB, MOBI and PDF, optimised for the platforms you actually sell on.
DRM & distribution
Secured content warehousing with digital rights management, and inventory access for libraries and retailers.
eBook DRMAccessibility
Accessibility-tagged PDFs, NIMAS-ready XML and DAISY/DTB files meeting WCAG 2.1 AA.
Accessibility servicesEdTech
Publishing expertise carried into the classroom — AI-assisted learning tools built on the same content pipeline.
Platforms
The applications behind the services
Each runs on its own and each is built by the same team, so a title can move between them without being rebuilt.
Digital Media Reserve
The content repository and fulfilment system. Connects publishers to libraries, aggregators and retail channels with rights controls, encryption and reporting. EPUB, PDF/A and video.
Digital Media ReserveePubNow!
A standards-based EPUB and Kindle production platform with automated quality checks and format validation, including DocBook conversion. Where a manuscript becomes a file.
epubnow.comOnixMaster
The group's ONIX for Books application — rich metadata creation, quality cues, advance information sheets, and an e-commerce web-store built in.
OnixMaster and the reserveAntrik
A DRM-wrapped delivery engine and the Antrik eBookstore — EPUB and PDF under Adobe DRM, read across Windows, iPad and Android.
antrik.comAccessibility division
A11Y — NIMAS Master
The group's accessibility practice converts K–12 and higher-education textbooks into formats that serve students who are blind, have low vision, or have a print disability — and remediates the documents and platforms around them. Ten services, all of which produce evidence a buyer or a regulator can check.
Production
- NIMAS
- Validated NIMAS filesets built from your print PDFs, with alt text authored and the title carried through to NIMAC certification.
- PDF/UA
- Tag trees, reading order, table headers and metadata remediated to PDF/UA (ISO 14289), delivered with a conformance report.
- Documents
- Word, PowerPoint, Excel and EPUB remediated to accessibility standards.
- EAA / EU
- Born-accessible EPUB, backlist remediation, and the accessibility metadata the EU supply chain now requires.
- DAISY and digital talking books
- Long-standing production experience in DAISY, DTB and Braille formats.
Testing, evidence and programme
- WCAG 2.x AA
- Manual and assistive-technology testing against WCAG 2.x Level AA, with prioritised findings, code-level fixes and a re-test.
- ACR / VPAT
- Defensible accessibility conformance reports your buyers, state adoption teams and legal reviewers can actually evaluate.
- AT testing
- Testing whether someone can complete the task, not just whether the page passes a rule.
- Training
- Role-specific sessions for design, development, QA and content teams.
- Monitoring
- Scheduled re-testing to catch regressions across releases.
- Strategy
- Turning single remediation projects into a repeatable accessibility programme.
Why this sits next to DRM
A protected file that a student with a print disability cannot open is a compliance problem wearing a security badge. Because production, accessibility and rights management are the same group, an accessible EPUB 3 can be encrypted and fulfilled without losing its structure — which is harder than it sounds when the three jobs belong to three suppliers. More at a11y.pub →
End to end
One pipeline, six stages
Most publishers assemble this from four vendors and a spreadsheet. Here it is one chain, and you can join it at any stage.
Produce
Manuscript or print PDF converted to EPUB 3, MOBI or PDF, with automated validation — ePubNow! and DMIEPUB.
Make accessible
NIMAS, PDF/UA, DAISY and born-accessible EPUB, with an ACR you can hand to a buyer.
Describe
Rich ONIX 3.0 metadata so the title is discoverable in every channel — OnixMaster.
Protect
Full DRM or social watermarking, per title, through the reserve.
Distribute
Fulfil to your own storefront, to retailers through the API, or to a lending collection.
Report
Every fulfilment and every loan logged by title, format, channel and period.
Which part of the chain are you missing?
Tell us where your titles are today — a folder of InDesign files, a list already with an aggregator, or a catalogue you cannot sell direct — and we will tell you which services close the gap.