Tuesday, October 4, 2011

The Digital Magazine Newsstand of the Future

Apple will certainly provide us a clean magazine newsstand experience

The digital magazine newsstand from Apple(TM) in iOS 5 provides the proper app based usability to iPod, iPhone, and iPad mobile and tablet devices. The newsstand app brings publication subscription functions to a managed newspaper and magazine applications shelf allowing for convenient access & visibility to the most recent publication issues.  Post - Digital Newsstands

But the future digital newsstand will need to be as open as the magazine software and tools used to create cross media publications that can be accessed by any device - smartphone or tablet magazine format.

This week the Kindle Fire showed us one more magazine newsstand foundation that will probably put more interest and effort into their periodicals.  

Kindle-fire-amazon-newsstand
Let's just hope they make the magazine publishing software tools easy for all publishers to use and not just those largest publishers capable of signing major deals.  The original publisher software tools and information for publishing to the Kindle left magazine developers wondering if they really understood the market.

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Monday, August 15, 2011

Drupal CMS for Magazine Publishing

Post about WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal open source magazine CMS software solutions .

While open source web content management systems contain “no cost” for the CMS software itself, it’s important to understand that there are still costs associated with the planning, design, development, and deployment of OS powered magazine websites. Open source solutions must also be managed, hosted and maintained.

The latest post contains an updated CMS trend
Updated Aug 2011 Chart: Overall Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, and TYPO3 Trend by Google Trends.