Exact Editions Blog

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

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

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.

So 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