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Does anyone have any experience of publishing a magazine to Newsstand for iPad?
#app #ipad #newsstand
  • Profile picture of the author olauno
    Some of the platforms out there are expensive. And if you get into this arena I think you will be in the fore front of it, as it is gaining some massive usage. The future of magazines. I have been looking around for some platforms as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author kevsinfield
    I would also be very interested in any thoughts or help on this topic, there are a few paid services out there but the costs seem very high. It would be nice to get a developer to create an app and maybe share the costs with a few members?
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  • Profile picture of the author Leigh Burke
    They certainly don't make it an easy process.

    What you need to know is that a Magazine in the Newsstand is essentially an App that is enabled for the Newsstand, but it's still an App.

    When I say it's an App, that just means it has all the coding required for it to work as an app in the app store, the wrapper if you like. The functionality of this App itself might be quite basic in that it might only be a PDF magazine sitting within the App.

    When an app gets enabled for the Newsstand, there are a few extra things the developer needs to do to make this possible. Mainly this involves having a separate icon for a generic magazine cover as well as an individual magazine cover icon for each issue you produce. There are also additional setting around auto-download of editions in the background etc.

    Having said all that, creating the newsstand functionality on top of the regular app functionality isn't that much more work. The bulk of the work is in producing your pdf with all the layout and content.

    There are several products that allow you to output your pdf magazine in the right format for it to be uploaded as a newstand app for the app store, a cheaper option would be Create and develop iPad apps | Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, Single Edition
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  • Profile picture of the author sr.20
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