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Each year Memcom hosts a conference that welcomes around 200 delegates from membership organisations across the UK. This is then followed by a sit down lunch and awards ceremony.

Despite Page Lizard not being a membership organisation ourselves, we still like to lend a helping claw to those who need it. Our aim at Memcom 2014 was to reach out to membership organisations who are delving into their bright digital publishing future head first but aren't actually sure how to engage, grow and retain their audiences.

Page Lizard creates digital publishing for ArtBanc.

If you don't know your Pissarro's from your Picasso's, you'd be forgiven for having not heard of ArtBanc. A company that provide art sales and collections management services for the professional art community. They have some real art bigwigs on board, with a formidable collective number of years experience in dealing with pieces and collections.

At The London Book Fair this week I had the feeling that the world is entering a digital publishing downturn.

One of the membership organisations we work with is the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. Every week, we turn their two print publications, The Pharmaceutical Journal and Clinical Pharmacist into beautiful digital publishing editions for the Pharmaceutical Journal's app.

PJ's adventure starts here at Page Lizard when we receive the print-ready PDF files from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. Using a clever piece of software, we sort and identify the different sections and articles, then upload them to our own special CSS editor as HTML text, transitioning PJ into the world of digital publishing smoothly.

Digital publishing takes a new turn as Readly, a £10-a-month service which lets users read magazines on an 'all you can read' basis, has opened its doors in the UK.

Fourteen consumer publishers including IPC and Haymarket have put their titles on the site, which offers a two-week free trial. Users can register up to five devices on iOS, Android, Kindle and Windows.