Adobe and Publisher Condé Nast working on Digital Magazine Application
The supposed Chinese proverb, “may you live in interesting times“, is perhaps true for those in publishing (Newspaper, book and magazine publishers), printing and for that matter graphic design, as we read:
Condé Nast and Adobe collaborate on digital magazine app
Relax News
Saturday, 21 November 2009
Publisher Condé Nast and Adobe Systems are developing a digital-magazine application to be compatible with laptops, netbooks, smart phones, and upcoming electronic slate devices.
Wired magazine, which covers tech news and information, will be the first to adapt the app, which will produce full-color, high-resolution images to replicate the experience of reading a print publication with the convenience of the internet.
This collaboration will bring magazine content into digitalized form for devices available in 2010. The companies hope to create a technology that will be applied to the publisher’s other magazines and adopted throughout the industry.
Condé Nast is home to publishing brands such as Vogue, Architectural Digest, Maison & Jardin, Bon Appétit, GQ, Brides, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker.
Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/
Originally found via a Tweet from @ wnip
This may be in the “relax” section for this newspaper, but for those on the front-line of these changes and the multitude of devices, file formats and digital options, this is a very busy period. Whatever you do, make sure your content is top-notch, your source (InDesign, Publisher, Quark, Word files, etc) files as well as the resulting PDF documents fully preflight-ready and whatever changes come along, just be flexible and ready to move with the tide. Not everyone is Mr. Murdoch.
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