Like most nerdy types we have been waiting for the launch of the iPhone for months. From its earliest demo , Steve Jobs was showing it with a newspaper web site and stressing the advantages of being able to read the paper on your phone……
Today we hear that the iPhone will come with Safari. Unlike most digital magazine platforms, Exact Editions only requires a standard browser on the client-side. Our pages are simple web pages, no proprietary … Keep Reading
What is worse, a postal strike which appears to be looming in the UK? Or lousy postal rates which threatens to cripple magazines with a smaller circulation in the USA? On this read an excellent essay from editors of the Nation and the National Review, on the Bosacks blog.
Answers on a post card please (sorry, pathetic joke).
A digital edition does not solve either problem, but it can lessen the pain.
Published today. To celebrate they have put up 50 of their front pages, 50,000 issues since 1821.
Stepping through their front pages one notices how the pace of change and innovation has accelerated. The first colour on page one happens as recently as 1996. The Berliner format only covers the last few examples. More colour, reduction in format size, blockier layout……
The funny thing is, it is almost as though newspaper editors and designers KNOW that they have to … Keep Reading
The Digital Magazines blog has a notice on the newly launched Jellyfish from the UK’s National Magazines. This is a free e-magazine aimed at the teenage girl market. It uses a similar technology platform, Ceros with Flash, to Dennis’s Monkey. John Weir’s blog notes:
… Keep ReadingLike Monkey, it is based on the Ceros system, with lots of video, audio content and web links. Among the things I liked were the “click to rotate” feature on the shopping pages, and
Microsoft are developing some incredibly cool image technologies. They are highly relevant to the way magazines, newspapers and books will be viewed and read on the screen in years to come. From O’Reilly I found a link to an amazing presentation of Seadragon and Photosynth from this year’s TED conference, by one of the developers, Blaise Aguera y Arcas.
One of his examples shows a digital edition of the Guardian (one of the very, very few newspapers which publishes a … Keep Reading
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