Who is Adobe Experience Manager for? No mention of publishers Adobe’s own press release about Adobe Experience Manager Mobile, the effective replacement for DPS: BARCELONA, Spain — Feb. 22, 2016 — Building and maintaining enterprise applications can be complex, but it…
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A collection of 11 posts
Did Adobe just kill DPS?
Did Adobe just kill DPS? Adobe has just announced that its DPS platform – used for making tablet editions of print publications – is being replaced by AEM Mobile. Pugpig’s Jonny Kaldor: In essence, Adobe have switched their emphasis from publishing…
The baffling stall of tablet magazine evolution
Interesting piece from a couple of months ago, on the faltering pace of change in tablet magazines. It makes a good case for what’s gone wrong – and an even more compelling one for some missed opportunities: A successful tablet…
Morning Coffee Reading, from the 24 hour social-media, digital-first world…
Five recent reads you might have missed, and are well-worth your time: It’s a 24/7 social media world out there Friends of the blog Brilliant Noise have done some research into the difference between “always on” Twitter presence…
iPad Magazines: a whole new generation of shovelware
While we’re on the topic of iPad magazine apps: We in the publishing game have a name for this phenomenon – we call it “shovelware”. We used to use the term to describe the way we just took our print…
iPad Magazines: a predictable publisher road-crash
David Jacobs of 29th Street Publishing talking about magazine apps: What we have learned is that the replica will never be successful. Consumers have soundly rejected them: digital subscriptions make up only 3% of total subscriptions. But I am of…
That shovelware tablet edition might be killing your mag
Just came across this explanation of why hobby magazines no longer have broad appeal, by a former editor of various outdoor magazine titles: So why does someone with a long-term background in outdoor magazine publishing suddenly become bored with them?…
The decline and fall of InDesign?
As I said in my last post, the disruptor can be disrupted… Henry Taylor, writing for the MediaBriefing: Design and business title Katachi magazine is an example of doing it yourself if the tools aren’t available to you. Founder…