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Apple’s Newsstand Six Weeks after Launch

Journalism.co.uk this week has a podcast interview with Daryl Rayner, Exact Editions founder and MD. Also on the podcast with Daryl are representatives of two UK publishers, Future (Mike Goldsmith) and Factory Media (Chris Talintyre). It is striking that all three parties report striking and impressive success from the launch of Newsstand in rather similar terms.

One slightly surprising fact about the interviewed group, is that between them these three companies were responsible for about 1/3 of the titles available … Keep Reading

Dazed & Confused and now Archived

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

Competition and Intrusion

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:

Ok, 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

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A New Web Services Approach for Exact Editions.

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 Praise

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:

The 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

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