06-30-2010, 03:17 PM | #1 |
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I work for an international not-for-profit. One of my coworkers asked me today for insight into what magazine publishing software to investigate. We offer a monthly magazine for donors, and he has been urged by the finance dept to offer a digital edition in addition to the paper in the hope of saving postage costs.
We are mostly likely looking at a hosted software platform, as I don't think we have the bandwidth to host it for PDF download. Other than Zinio, I can't say that I'm all that familiar with magazine reading online. Any suggestions? |
06-30-2010, 07:48 PM | #2 |
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For production, I'm not sure.
For delivery, I would definitely set it up for RSS/Atom. |
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Thank you - that one didn't show up in my Google searches. |
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You should investigate HTML5. Many of the features of HTML5 will be well-suited for digital magazines that can be presented in a web browser, without special reading apps or proprietary systems, and at various scales. Maybe a third party solution like Zinio, etc, may be simpler for you... but HTML5 will be more flexible, and your output more widespread.
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Given that this is a non-profit with a small staff that probably wants to keep overheads as low as possible, why not simply produce a PDF?
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The only 2 chapters with decent online magazine usage (5%+) are doing it in-house, but they have "interactive" staffs of 6+ that do all their online activities. So we're looking for on "off-the-shelf" solution Right now we're looking at PageFlip3D Olive Software Issues3D.com Zinio bluetoad.com and another one whose name i forget. Something like mymagazine.com. Bree |
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If producing it in house is still not getting much more than 5%, is it actually worth doing? |
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Also, 8% of all donors have opted out of the paper magazine - many of them have asked for a digital version, so we'd be serving those donors better. |
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oh also http://www.libredigital.com the deliver/sell through http://www.newsstand.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=main and apps as well.
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1. Access for donors only (it's a member benefit, and based on surveys we've done, they really value that paper version) 2. Only a small portion is traditional articles and pictures- the majority of it is complex charts that are time-sensitive, so it doesn't lend itself well to a blog environment. Thanks to everyone, my colleague has narrowed down to 3 possible candidates for the software and we're doing further investigating. We'll see where it goes from there. Last edited by Jellby; 07-13-2010 at 04:44 AM. Reason: Fixed markup |
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