Exact Editions is now showing a new face to publishers who are interested in using our services.
This is really a matter of scaling up, since we are now working with hundreds of publishers and editors all of whom are looking for smoother, faster, simpler ways of being digital and delivering digital editions to their readers. An obvious way of speeding and simplifying this process is to start delivering a web services model for magazine publishers. The first step of … Keep Reading
Pristine Classical (the world’s leading historic recordings site) have written up the experience of using Gramophone magazine on the Exact Editions platform. The full editorial is here, and we quote an extract in which Andrew Rose explains how the iTunes Newsstand interface, and the Exact Editions digital magazine platform works for him:
… Keep ReadingThe iPad’s news stand is a simple little app that Apple have recently built into the operating system. When you first touch it an empty set
Apple’s Newsstand was introduced with iOS5 and it is defined as ‘a custom newsstand for all your subscriptions’. It puts all your periodical subscriptions in one place, a Newsstand, a folder, that ‘lets you access your favorite publications quickly and easily‘. At this stage it has three particular advantages for the user: first, it does the sorting for you and puts your subscriptions in the one folder, collecting them together on the iPhone/iPad (many of us are lazy … Keep Reading
Adweek has a nice piece on how the magazine BusinessWeek appears to be thriving. It has changed its name to Bloomberg Businessweek (is that really better?) and has a newly invigorated editorial and design approach.
… Keep ReadingSo far, the Bloomberg money has bought signs of life. Businessweek has bulked up to an average of 66 well-designed editorial pages that offer a level of global business coverage not found among other weeklies. Ad pages are up 21 percent year-on-year for January through
Today it is widely expected that Amazon will launch a ‘next generation’ Kindle. The rumor mill says that it will be called the Kindle Fire, it will be running an Amazon controlled and adapted version of Android 2.1, it will be priced ‘competitively’ a bit lower than the basic iPad, it will have a smaller form factor than the iPad (7″) and may look much like the Blackberry PlayBook, but above all it will be a new and better … Keep Reading
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