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Gadget Daily News - Home - Apple Creating a Magazine Publishing Tool for Developers?
Since the iPad was announced over a year ago, one of the uses that seemed to be natural for it was that of a Magazine and Newspaper reader. Real life results, unfortunately have been mixed. Many magazines such as Wired , Popular Science and The Economist were on the iPad shortly after launch. Others such as Rupert Murdoch’s The Daily and Sir Richard Branson’s Project appeared with much fanfare but mixed reaction.
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I also believe Apple ultimately realised this as well, and expects all those publishers to come back to the iTunes Store anyway. WoodWing releases a press release about every other week telling the world it has enabled yet another of its customers to create an App without effort . They’re proudly claiming about 400 apps. That’s a worldwide figure. I wonder how many printed magazine titles worldwide are using WoodWing’s system?
Adobe's Digital Publishing Suite is Coming to Android
Adobe is announcing at Mobile World Congress that its digital publishing suite, which allows content publishers to craft magazine-like content for tablet computers, is now going to be available for Android in addition to iOS. Already, the Adobe software has been used to create over 100 publications that run on iOS devices, including big names like Wired, The New Yorker and Empire. With the introduction of the Content Viewer for Android, the resulting publications will run as Adobe AIR applications on Android-based tablets. Adobe says that its software will support Android 3.0, Honeycomb, and higher.alternative solutions
(Sydney — September 15, 2009) DNAML, an eBook technology house has announced the release of a software called ‘PDF to ePub’ . Publishers, authors, conversion and design houses can now convert an unlimited number of PDF eBooks into the industry standard ePub format in just six simple steps. With DNAML’s PDF to ePub ‘game changing’ software it is possible to achieve four essential goals simultaneously: 1. Publishers can dramatically reduce the costs of PDF to ePub conversion, making in-house conversion a real possibility for the very first time. 2.
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Body Because I recently left a job at one of the most prominent publications in the world, people often ask me about my opinions on the cavalcade of publications rushing to the iPad — those apps designed and developed by newspapers and magazines principally to deliver their print content — and the chances I see for their success. So here it is. To start, I think it’s too early to say anything definitive about whether these apps will become lasting delivery mechanisms for print content and brands.
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Body I want to thank everyone for the overwhelming response to my post from yesterday, “ My iPad Magazine Stand ,” in which I laid out my thoughts on why most of the current crop of iPad magazine apps have dim prospects for long-term success. The thoughtful comments left here on the blog as well as the steady stream of RT’ing on Twitter have been terrific.
Attracting new audiences. Creating cost-efficient content. Gaining clear insight into readers’ consumption patterns. Successful publishers address these divergent needs through immersive, interactive experiences.
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7 Lessons App Developers Should Learn from Flipboard
It is the first time that Apple ever got a late night phone call asking them NOT to feature the app, since the Flipboard servers were already buckling under the pressure. It is also one of the first apps to get an invitation system integrated into the App Store mechanism. The official numbers are not public yet, but something tells me it will break some sort of record as far as how many downloads it got within the first five minutes of its launch. I have completely shifted the way I consume information and interact with friends ever since I first installed Flipboard. From what Mike McCue , the founder says, we can expect some serious enhancements in the near future, the primary one being caching abilities, which will ease the pressure on the servers and make the experience a lot snappier for the user.