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A decade with Prenly: VK Media’s smarter way to publish e-paper
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Over the past decade, VK Media has stayed ahead by rethinking how news is delivered. In 2014, they launched a digital evening edition to give readers early access to the next day’s headlines. Ten years later, they faced a new challenge: delivering late sports results after the print deadline. With Prenly, they solved both — without disrupting editorial workflows.Customer stories about VK's e-paper in Prenly
Challenge
In 2014, Västerbottens-Kuriren (VK Media) wanted to give readers a preview of the next day’s newspaper the evening before print. They needed a solution that would allow digital publication of selected articles without interfering with existing editorial workflows.
Ten years later, in 2024, a new challenge appeared: the print deadline was moved earlier in the afternoon — before most sports events had concluded. VK Media needed a way to deliver those results digitally, without adding extra work or delays. Solution In 2014, VK Media and Textalk co-developed the first version of Prenly — a platform for digital newspapers that went beyond flip-PDFs, offering native article views and support for fully digital editions. This allowed VK Media to launch a digital evening edition with selected content from the upcoming issue.
The digital evening edition was made available to readers as a native article-based format. Later at night, once the full, redacted print layout became available, the article-based version was automatically replaced with the final digital print edition — giving readers access to the complete newspaper in its designed layout by morning.
By 2024, the collaboration had evolved. VK Media now needed a way to publish late sports results — finalized after print — without adding pressure to existing workflows.. Together with Textalk, they developed “Mer Sport” (More Sport) — a digital supplement in Prenly, published alongside the full digital edition. How it works today
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Ten years later, in 2024, a new challenge appeared: the print deadline was moved earlier in the afternoon — before most sports events had concluded. VK Media needed a way to deliver those results digitally, without adding extra work or delays. Solution In 2014, VK Media and Textalk co-developed the first version of Prenly — a platform for digital newspapers that went beyond flip-PDFs, offering native article views and support for fully digital editions. This allowed VK Media to launch a digital evening edition with selected content from the upcoming issue.
The digital evening edition was made available to readers as a native article-based format. Later at night, once the full, redacted print layout became available, the article-based version was automatically replaced with the final digital print edition — giving readers access to the complete newspaper in its designed layout by morning.
By 2024, the collaboration had evolved. VK Media now needed a way to publish late sports results — finalized after print — without adding pressure to existing workflows.. Together with Textalk, they developed “Mer Sport” (More Sport) — a digital supplement in Prenly, published alongside the full digital edition. How it works today
- VK Media sends the newspaper to print in the afternoon.
- Later in the evening, when sports articles are complete, they are exported to Prenly.
- Prenly creates a separate “Mer Sport” edition, with a cover generated from the first article’s headline and image.
- The sports supplement is bundled with the full digital edition, giving readers a complete and seamless experience.
Contact us to learn how Prenly can modernize your digital publishing workflow.
Read Västerbottens-Kuriren here
