Exact Editions has a generic app, Exactly, for reading magazine subscriptions. The app is available both for iOS, for Android and for Amazon Kindle Fire and it will work with any subscriptions hosted by Exact Editions. Exactly has had several important uses for us and our customers. It is an app that we can use to provide confidential trials to publishers who may be planning to join the Exact Editions platform. It has also been useful for those small … Keep Reading
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Yesterday, after several months of work, The Wire magazine on the Exact Editions platform entered a new phase in which all the back issues are available to all the subscribers as a searchable and browseable resource. If you are an iPad user you need to pick up the freemium app here. It allows users to search all the content for free, and shows the search results in snippet form.
As a digital magazine, The Wire packs a staggering … Keep Reading
When the iPad was launched there was an instant reaction that these new tablets would work especially well with lean-back media, such as films, TV and magazines, maybe not so well with lean-forward media where we create and mix, customise and navigate. The idea of lean-forward and lean-back media may have started with Jakob Nielsen, who back in 2008 explained that the web is an active medium and users are engaged and want to go places and get things done … Keep Reading
Exact Editions will be making announcements in the next 10 days on exciting improvements in the way that magazine archives are searched and browsed.
Before we get into the details of this new functionality, it may be useful to make some general points about searching digital magazine archives and the way ‘search’ is handled by the Exact Editions service. We will pitch examples from the Gramophone archive, but similar techniques apply to all the magazines using the platform. Gramophone is … Keep Reading
There has been an interesting move in recent months towards the idea that digital magazines should be sold according to the “Netflix model”. One of the early movers was Marco Arment who has started a digital-only magazine The Magazine. In its FAQ, Arment is quite explicit about following the Netflix model:
… Keep ReadingSubscriptions to The Magazine work more like Netflix or cable TV than print magazines.
Unlike most magazines, when you’re a subscriber, you can access all issues that we’ve