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Jeff Jarvis who has been predicting dire things for the newspaper business (some of which are coming to pass) is now becoming the Jeremiah of the magazine business. He has a very gloomy moan on his blog Magazines don’t look so slick now

First, the grim reaper came for newspapers….Now magazines are looking bad and worse by the day. ….

And magazine advertising is falling in the dumper – and it’s sure to get worse as the impact of the

Google is trimming some services and has laid off some Googlers (not contractors but staff in recruitment). Of course, Google is going to feel the recession and it is big enough and its operations sprawl in ways that will benefit from pruning. We have long been intrigued by the Google Catalogs service, which now, according to Technologizer, folds. This was one of the web services that we looked at most closely when we started Exact Editions (Google Book … Keep Reading

We have a new option to fit pages to your browser – there are buttons on the toolbar to turn this off/on.

The function will be particularly useful for magazines which have fairly small pages, eg the cycling magazine AtoB, or ones with really large formats, eg The Catholic Herald, which is broadsheet.

If you resize your browser window, the magazine page will shrink or expand to fill the available space.

It works for single pages and (full-sized) … Keep Reading

Magazine publishers are going through a torrid time. Yesterday I rang someone at a leading business/finance magazine for whom we have done a test file. But we couldn’t talk because he was having to digest a decision announced yesterday about job reductions in the company. Some of his staff are affected.

We agreed to talk in a few days. What do you say? It is not helpful to point out that if they had been doing a digital edition in … Keep Reading