Front Cover of the first issue
Dazed & Confused has an archive stretching forward 21 years from the simple black and white folded poster which was its launch issue. This extensive archive of 189 issues (+ 3 supplements), 33,500 pages, approximately 12 million words, has now been completely databased by Exact Editions and is available to magazine subscribers — a free and fully searchable resource for all print and digital subscribers.
The Dazed & Confused archive as it grows will … Keep Reading
Frédéric Filloux has a bit of a rant about Apple’s vulnerability to charges of monopoly for its very successful control of the ‘tablet’ market and the rather strict rules that it imposes for publishers and developers in iTunes.
I am not sure that his charges amount to much. On Apple’s 30% commission he decides:
… Keep ReadingOk, then, it’s legal. But is it fair and, more importantly, sustainable for Apple?
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But this system essentially favors the vast market of small to
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
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