Adobe has announced its new Digital Publishing Suite, a set of hosted services and viewer technology that enable publishers to create, publish, optimize, and sell their digital content directly to consumers, via content retailers, or in mobile marketplaces such as the Apple App Store.

The Digital Publishing Suite, unveiled at Adobe's MAX 2010 conference, is expected to be available commercially in the second quarter of 2011, offering both a Professional and Enterprise Edition.

Based on Adobe CS5, and particularly InDesign CS5, the Digital Publishing Suite will facilitate the design and delivery of publications accompanied by e-commerce technology and analytics reporting. The suite will work in conjunction with InDesign CS5, PDF, and HTML5 to let publishers create layouts, build new levels of interactivity in InDesign, distribute digital editions, and optimize editorial and advertising content for a complete digital publishing workflow.

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