Okay, I know there's all this excitement surrounding the launch of the iPad and all the books that will be supposedly available for the iPad.
But where's the discussion regarding magazine or newspaper content? Wasn't the iPad supposed to be the savior of the publishing industry?
I've looked and researched around the web to find out about magazine or newspaper formatted content for the iPad, but nothing exists.
If all that is going to happen is port the existing ebook content to the iPad, where's the benefit? We already have devices that do ebooks and videos.
My understanding was that the iPad was going to revolutionize the publishing industry. The ePub format that is being used for the iPad is arcane to say the least. Where's the rich media and rich looking publications for the iPad?
Are we supposed to view websites to receive this content? Doesn't this defeat the purpose?
I find this very disappointing.
As a magazine publisher myself, I would love to be able to distribute my magazine through channels such as the iPad. But not dumb down the look of my magazine to do so.
We currently use an online flip book format that utilizes the PDF format, so our magazine has the same rich look online as it would printed. And with the iPad not even having the capability of Flash, I don't see how you can add interactivity with PDFs.
Anybody else have insight on this or shed some light on magazine content strategy from Apple?
Thanks,
Chris
But where's the discussion regarding magazine or newspaper content? Wasn't the iPad supposed to be the savior of the publishing industry?
I've looked and researched around the web to find out about magazine or newspaper formatted content for the iPad, but nothing exists.
If all that is going to happen is port the existing ebook content to the iPad, where's the benefit? We already have devices that do ebooks and videos.
My understanding was that the iPad was going to revolutionize the publishing industry. The ePub format that is being used for the iPad is arcane to say the least. Where's the rich media and rich looking publications for the iPad?
Are we supposed to view websites to receive this content? Doesn't this defeat the purpose?
I find this very disappointing.
As a magazine publisher myself, I would love to be able to distribute my magazine through channels such as the iPad. But not dumb down the look of my magazine to do so.
We currently use an online flip book format that utilizes the PDF format, so our magazine has the same rich look online as it would printed. And with the iPad not even having the capability of Flash, I don't see how you can add interactivity with PDFs.
Anybody else have insight on this or shed some light on magazine content strategy from Apple?
Thanks,
Chris