Some ideas

Beng,

Drupal UK held a 1/2 day event about Drupal for Publications this week. You may be able to see video of it at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/mysqluk

A few interesting things came out of it:

Publishers are integrating Drupal into their work flows. There were a few people who explained how they are using Drupal as part of a larger system, either using legacy datat, or data from a live system where stories are entered.

One company - a large magazine publisher - is using Drupal. They have built some custom components, to work with their legacy data sources.(Perhaps it would be worth building hooks into ProsePoint to help with data import/integration.)

Components and things that were important for them include:

• An image gallery creator - used to browse image libraries, and assemble images into a gallery. Their gallery sizes reach up to 200 images - for example with Michael Jackson.
• A custom image cropper: for every image, they required a custom crop for different image sizes. This is so that they get the best shot possible. Their system works through the browser: the traditional drag to crop javascript mechanism. By this I mean thumbnails are created automatically, but are usually changed by the photo editor to get a better crop/resize.
• They separate out image and caption because the caption depends on the image context.