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Originally Posted by WillAdams
The thing which I'm not seeing addressed is the matter of bandwidth.
A 4-colour glossy magazine of some 10s of pages represents _gigabytes_ of data
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Oh, please. There is a new image compression technology called "
jpeg" that came out oh, around 18 years ago. Results in magazines that are only tens (or at worst a couple of hundred) megabytes each, with resolutions high enough for all but the most anal, demanding of readers.
Take a look at some of the free "light" versions of back issues of these:
http://www.3dcreativemag.com/
http://www.2dartistmag.com/
Small files. Look good.
If you are on a modem, then yeah, a few dozen megabytes for a magazine issue might actually mean something to you. But at even mediocre broadband would be in no way stressed by it. With my mediocre by world standards 10 megabits per seconds, downloading a few dozen megabytes is almost quicker than typing the words "a few dozen megabytes." I sometimes download 700MB divx files of moves I already own on DVD because doing so is actually quicker and less hassle than searching through my unorganized shelves. A few dozen to a few hundred megabytes is nothing.
(Of course how they would look on a small device and how much space they would take up on it are entirely different issues.)
http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/I...speedchart.jpg