Digital Publishing Company

We come from the publishing and technology industry. Meet the key members of the team.

Graham Duffill
A journalist by training and worked for The Daily Mail, The Times, where he ran the news department from 1994–97, and The Sunday Times, where he still runs the news desk on a Saturday evening for old time’s sake. Graham moved into online in 1997 when he set up his first business which he sold in 2000, was editor of The Sunday Times online and publisher of a group of travel price comparison sites before setting up The Digital Publishing Company in 2004.

Graham researched the providers of digital edition technology and decided Olive Software offered the best. “We approached Olive from a customer’s perspective and we remain 100% customer-focussed,” Graham says. “We are not here to sell you a technology, we are here to help you achieve your goals, to satisfy your readers and your business goals.We are very lucky that Olive provides a great software and gives us fantastic support.”

Andrew Bell
Heads the production team and is the main day-to-day contact with most of Digital Publishing Company’s clients. “My job is to keep the wheels turning, make sure we deliver to our client‘s deadlines and keep everybody happy,” explained Andrew. “This is a service industry and the customer always comes first.” Andrew knows what that means for most publishers as he came to the Digital Publishing Company from The Lancet (Reed Elsevier) where, as Senior Production Editor, he was responsible for ensuring quality and timely delivery of this renowned weekly medical journal. In 2006, the team was honoured at the ALPSP/Charlesworth Awards to Learned Journals (Design Category) and, in 2007, won a Business Magazines Award as Publishing Production Team of the Year at the Quality in Print Media Awards.

Andrew’s background is varied. He gained a degree in zoology at the University of Manchester and, following post-graduate research in the history of medicine, stumbled into publishing initially as a researcher. He went on to sell advertising space, write and edit B2B newsletters and, in 1997, was asked to set up a DTP-based production department from scratch. “The important thing for most of our customers is that I know exactly what is going on from their perspective. I have spent over 10 years in their shoes and that, I hope, means that I can make 100% certain we give them the service that they are expecting.”