Each day we speak with business across the world regarding creating digital publications for their audience. There has been an increase in mobile friendly publications over the last few years as a result of the explosion in popularity of mobile devices including the iPad. So here we thought we’d answer a few of the top questions we get asked about creating iPad magazines and share with you…
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Digital Publishing News Round-up
It’s that time again! Once a month we release our digital publishing newsletter. This aims to keep you up to date with the latest tips, trends and goings on in the world of digital magazines and marketing.
Highlights this month:
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TV Company to break into books
NBC are to move into digital publishing as this story reports from Wired today reported from the tech gurus here.
Some of the reasoning behind the move tie in with some of the issues and topics we’ve been writing about here at 3D issue like making the most of your older content for example and always designing with the audience in mind – not just conversion….
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Textbooks in ebook format to reduce prices?
Apple’s latest project namely iBooks 2 and the ability to purchase cut price text books has been cited as the potential savior for students and schools alike, students get cheaper text books in digital format that cost less and are easy to carry with many starting from $14.99 as opposed to hard copy editions costing multiples of that figure.
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How to analyze your digital magazine reader statistics
Once your digital publication is online and published it’s vital that you look into the stats and track how successful the edition is. How is the magazine performing? Is it attracting the right person/your target audience? Without tracking and analysing the performance it will be difficult for you to make the necessary adjustments to future editions to improve performance and reader satisfaction.
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Digital Book World, POD and more
Digital Book World is taking place right now in New York and its probably worth checking out some of the key note speeches taking place and the debates that will be carried on at the conference.
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Create, open and share or sell ePubs
Big news this week on the Apple front as is now becoming the norm for Apple with their early New Year conferences. Two big deals; the announcement of the iBooks 2 App now available for download from the US App store and the announcement of Apple iBook Author software which complements the announcement of the new iBooks 2 App.
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Digital Publications – Part 1 Beginners guide to output formats
iBooks, ePubs, digital magazines…what does it all mean and what are the differences? This is a question we are frequently asked, there are now a growing number of terms being used around digital publishing, which if you are looking at publishing your content into a digital form could be confusing to know which option and or route is best for you.
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Digital Publications – Part 2 Beginners guide to what devices view which formats?
Following on from part 1 of our beginners guide, here is our next instalment. This post goes through the different devices you may wish to consider publishing your digital content too, and which formats are used on these devices.
What Devices require which formats?
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Digital Publications – Part 3 Beginners guide to digital publishing considerations
Part 1 and Part 2 of this beginners guide went through the various different publishing output options and which devices could show this content.
Here we look at some further considerations you may want to look into before choosing which digital output and devices to publish for.
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