The Magaziner
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Archive for January, 2011
So AOL is about to launch a new iPad magazine, it’s going to be called Editions, and apparently, it’s “The magazine that reads you.” It’s hard to really get what this is all about, especially after watching the following video, which is basically a big joke about the tagline. Has me curious though, which I [...]
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This article was posted on January 20, 2011 under the category News, and covers the following topics: AOL, App, Editions, iPad, Video
Michael Bojkowski‘s always great Reading List — in which he flips through recent magazine releases while chatting about what each has to offer — is back with a new edition, this time covering the following titles: Adbusters, Bloomberg Businessweek, Fire & Knives, Epicurean, Lost in London, L’Optimum, Parq, Lodown, ‘Sup, Electronic Beats Magazine, Nico, Underscore, [...]
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This article was posted on January 16, 2011 under the category Print, and covers the following topics: Linefeed, Michael Bojkowski, Print, Reading List, Video
Warren Ellis recently pointed to this rather interesting post by Brett Jackson that lays out a way to sell works in PDF form for use on the iPad (and iPhone too, but who wants to read PDFs on iPhone) by avoiding the iTunes Store, and more importantly, Apple’s 30% cut and selection process. It’s all [...]
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This article was posted on January 16, 2011 under the category Books, Comics, News, and covers the following topics: Books, Brett Jackson, Comics, iPad, iPhone, PDF, The Not .99 Method, Warren Ellis
The current issue of O, The Oprah Magazine includes details on a contest that involves the use of a special free version of Autodesk’s SketchBook Pro app for iPad, called SketchBook O, which I’m thinking could be even more interesting if pushed for the iPad magazine platform. In this case, you download the app separately [...]
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This article was posted on January 16, 2011 under the category Commentary, Print, and covers the following topics: App, Autodesk, iPad, Miranda July, O, Print, Sketchbook O, Sketchbook Pro, The Oprah Magazine
This kind of thing — DC Comics announcing a simultaneous release in print and digital at the same price — annoys the hell out of me. Sure, the excuse publishers keep coming up with is that they don’t want to anger the loyal comic store owners that form the backbone of their business, but really, [...]
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This article was posted on January 11, 2011 under the category Comics, Commentary, and covers the following topics: Comics, DC Comics, Digital Comics, Lending, Licensing, Pricing
Will digital bring about the death of print? No, not at all. What’s going to happen is that each one will cause the other to evolve in some way or another. On the print side, expect to see greater attention going into the object itself, and in the production of an experience that simply cannot [...]
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This article was posted on January 11, 2011 under the category Comics, New Releases, Print, and covers the following topics: B.ü.L.b Comix, Comics, Packaging, Print
That’s what everyone seems to be reporting today, that Rupert Murdoch’s iPad-only daily newspaper will finally launch a week from now, on January 19, and as previous rumors suggested, the launch would be accompanied by some sort of event that will see Steve Jobs join Murdoch on stage to properly announce/celebrate said launch. It’s not [...]
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This article was posted on January 11, 2011 under the category News, and covers the following topics: App, iPad, Newspaper, Rupert Murdoch, Steve Jobs, The Daily
You may remember that when I took a look at the latest issue of Wired on iPad, I mentioned how I noticed that I no longer had access to the June issue. I regularly delete the issues after I’m done reading them because of all the space they take up, and I still had access [...]
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This article was posted on January 11, 2011 under the category News, and covers the following topics: App, Apple, iPad, iTunes Store, Licensing, Pricing, Wired
Fashion magazine Self Service has released a free iPad edition of its latest issue — No. 33 — and there’s certainly a lot to like from what they’ve come up with, although I do still have a few issues with some of the design decisions. Every issue of Self Service is guest edited, and here [...]
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This article was posted on January 8, 2011 under the category Reviews, and covers the following topics: Ads, App, Fashion, Free, iPad, Orientation, Self Service, Wired