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Survey results determine that Magazine Apps are crucial to Librarians

On January 28, 2015

A comprehensive study of worldwide mobile device acquisition revealed that over the past decade “the rate of iOS and Android device adoption has surpassed that of any consumer technology in history”*.

As a digital publishing company specialising in mobile apps, Exact Editions wanted to better understand the function of mobile technology in libraries today and their place in the future. A survey was conducted in January 2015 to a number of librarians worldwide. It quickly became evident that librarians globally … Keep Reading

Digital Reading gets Deeper

On June 11, 2013

Yesterday, after several months of work, The Wire magazine on the Exact Editions platform entered a new phase in which all the back issues are available to all the subscribers as a searchable and browseable resource. If you are an iPad user you need to pick up the freemium app here. It allows users to search all the content for free, and shows the search results in snippet form.

As a digital magazine, The Wire packs a staggering … Keep Reading

The App store makes way for Liverpool FC fanzine: The Liverpool Way

On April 29, 2013

The renowned football fanzine, The Liverpool Way, is now available online and on Apple and Android devices.

Now Liverpool FC fans can catch up on the latest antics and discussions simply by downloading the Newsstand App to their Apple device. Bi-Monthly and Annual subscriptions can be bought directly through the App, with new issues being delivered straight to your iPad or iPhone.

A digital subscription bought either through the App or online includes access to all the latest issues … Keep Reading

Lifestreams and Magazine Streams

On February 14, 2013

David Gelernter has a fascinating essay over at Wired on: The End of the Web, Search, and Computer as We Know It. He argues that our web-based spatial metaphors for computing are being replaced by time-based metaphors, or what he calls lifestreams, which are highly individual and instantaneous, which get melded together to form a global worldstream. Some of his commentators think that Gelernter was ‘under the influence’ when he wrote the piece, it is certainly an intriguing and … Keep Reading

Are Magazines About to be Forked?

On January 25, 2013

Forking happens in software projects when a developer or group of developers takes code that has been developed by one community for one purpose, and then duplicates that code and takes it off in another direction. Forking an operating system or an ‘open source’ software project or application may be perfectly legal and within the spirit of the free software. For example, Google launched Android as a free and open operating system for mobile software development and more or less … Keep Reading

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