RSS Feeds Definition | RSS Feed Tutorial and Basics : PRESSfeed

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication.

Also called web feeds, RSS is a content delivery vehicle. It is the format used when you want to syndicate news and other web content. When it distributes the content it is called a feed. You could think of RSS as your own personal wire service.

http://www.press-feed.com/howitworks/rss_tutorial.php

The top 10 ways to create digital magazines | Feature | .net magazine

The top 10 ways to create digital magazines



With the growing number of smartphones, tablets, and eReaders, why limit your audience? Create content that works for everyone, no matter what technology they prefer. 

Martha Rotter, co-founder of Woop.ie, reviews 10 of the best tools

Let me guess. You have a huge team of highly skilled designers and developers who use your unlimited budget to publish your beautiful, well-written content regularly for every type of device. Each device is then tested it to make sure it's an intuitive and readable experience for your loyal customers.
Probably not reality for most of us.
The great news is that digital subscriptions are growing and people are buying devices to read more content. It's an exciting time for digital publications, and marketplaces like Apple's Newsstand are helping consumers to find more of what they like and subscribe easily.
But here's the problem: device versions, hardware capabilities, operating systems, memory specifications and everything else are changing every day. So is the amount of content people read and interact with. Publishers need to be able to reach as broad an audience as they can while still maintaining a sane workflow and budget. How is this possible?
New tools for website owners, content managers, and publishers are growing, too. Below you'll find reviews of 10 methods of getting your content to a wider audience. I've included pros and cons for each tool as well as sample sites so you can see their end result in action. Some require a seasoned developer while others are more plug-n-play. Whatever your scenario, there is definitely something there to meet your needs and build your audience.
Everything I mention below can help to create content that works in more than one place. I specifically did not include products that create only PDF documents or only Flash applications or publish only to the iPad, for example.


Are Publishers Failing on Tablets? | Digiday



Are Publishers Failing on Tablets? 
BY Rahul Patel


The tablet experience for most magazines means that elegant designs and rich content are undermined by static 96-page PDFs that can take anywhere from a few minutes to over an hour to download. The last time I checked, no one wants to download an entire website to get one page. So why do publishers still make readers download an entire magazine? And why do they insist on delivering their content in 30-day packages that are often written months in advance? In our Twitter-speed world, magazine content can sometimes feel like it's from another planet.

And that's the core problem. Tablet readers expect the best of both worlds. They want real-time content and Web-like interactivity within a user-friendly brand experience that "feels" like the same brand found on the Web and in print. This tablet-ization is signaling an industry overhaul, especially given the recent news regarding tablet's soaring usage: The share of website traffic from tablets grew more than 300 percent in the past year.


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HP MagCloud | Print and Digital Content Publishing



What is MagCloud?
MagCloud can help you publish and distribute your content -- magazines, brochures, catalogs, portfolios, photo books and more -- as professional-quality print products, digital PDF downloads, and via the MagCloud iPad application.

GENWI Cloud based mobile Content Management System (mCMS™) | Create Engaging Mobile Apps

GENWI's revolutionary cloud-based mobile Content Management System (mCMS) helps content publishers create engaging and live content apps. Content publishers and marketers can easily repurpose existing content or create new content, enjoy complete creative freedom using standard web technologies, and deliver apps that can be revised in real time on all mobile devices.

The GENWI mCMS enables content publishers & marketers to get on mobile quickly with no programming and zero total cost of ownership.

http://genwi.com/product/

Are phablets a phase? Study says yes


A new survey conducted by research company Flurry suggests that phablets may simply be just a phase. But the research may simply be due to a disproportionate number of mid-sized phones versus the larger models.


http://www.digitaltrends.com/

Flipboard update turns readers into magazine publishers | Internet & Media - CNET News


The popular news-reading app adds the ability for readers to create and share personalized periodicals curated from Web content such as news stories, photos, and videos.

by Steven Musil 

Flipboard, the popular news-reading app, released an update today that allows its readers to become magazine publishers, creating personalized periodicals curated from a variety of Web content from around the world.
The update features a "+" button that allows readers to save and share stories, photos, videos, and audio clips to electronic magazines that reflect their individual tastes, interests, or opinions. Flipboard suggests that the new functionality, which is also available as a Web bookmarklet called Flip It, will allow publishers to better surface archived content as well as package related stories.
"With more than 50 million users, Flipboard is used every day as a place to catch up on the things you care about," Flipboard CEO Mike McCue said in a statement. "But starting now, it's also a great place to share opinions, save favorite stories, and express your point of view. This is our biggest release ever and one that we think will open an entirely new experience for our readers."
After creating a magazine and choosing a title, curators can choose to make their magazines public and shareable or keep them private. Publishers who choose the public route can learn about their readers' interaction with the magazine through the new Flipboard Notifications tool.

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57576480-93/flipboard-update-turns-readers-into-magazine-publishers/

Why ebooks are a different genre from print | Books | guardian.co.uk


The differences in format are beginning to change the nature of what we're reading, and how we do it

Opening a new chapter for literature ... an ebook being carried throught a branch of Waterstones. Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian
Most readers, I think, will by now have seen the "Medieval Helpdesk" sketch from Norweigan TV, where an exasperated monk requires assistance to start working with a new-fangled and daunting "book". It's fun – if loopily anachronistic, the codex having been around since the 1st century AD. But it does rest on a presumption that I'm increasingly beginning to question: that technological changes to the way we read affect only the secondary, cosmetic and non-essential aspects of reading. There is a kind of bookish dualism at work. The text is the soul, and the book – or scroll, or vellum, or clay tablet or knotted rope in the case of quipu – is the perishable body. In this way of thinking, the ebook is the book, only unshackled from paper, ink and stitching. If the debate about the ebook is to move on from nostalgic raptures over smell and rampant gadget-fetishism, it's time to think about the real fundamentals.

There are two aspects to the ebook that seem to me profoundly to alter the relationship between the reader and the text. With the book, the reader's relationship to the text is private, and the book is continuous over space, time and reader. Neither of these propositions is necessarily the case with the ebook.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2013/mar/26/ebooks-different-genre-print

ISBN for Self-Publishers: Answers to 20 of your Questions — The Book Designer



One of the areas that I get the most questions about is the use of the ISBN, the unique numeric identifier that's used around the world to identify books. New self-publishers are especially concerned with making sure their books are registered properly, that everything is done so that their book can be sold without any problems or confusion.

Because this area is specific to the book business, there's a lot of confusion and misinformation about ISBN and how it works. I strongly recommend you use the resources provided by Bowker, the company resposible for ISBNs in the United States, on the ISBN website and at Bowker's website.

But even faster, without any further delay, here are 20 answers to the most commonly-asked questions about ISBN.

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E-book Reading Jumps; Print Book Reading Declines | Pew Internet Libraries




by Lee Rainie and Maeve Duggan

Findings
The population of e-book readers is growing. In the past year, the number of those who read e-books increased from 16% of all Americans ages 16 and older to 23%. At the same time, the number of those who read printed books in the previous 12 months fell from 72% of the population ages 16 and older to 67%.

Overall, the number of book readers in late 2012 was 75% of the population ages 16 and older, a small and statistically insignificant decline from 78% in late 2011.

The move toward e-book reading coincides with an increase in ownership of electronic book reading devices. In all, the number of owners of either a tablet computer or e-book reading device such as a Kindle or Nook grew from 18% in late 2011 to 33% in late 2012. As of November 2012, some 25% of Americans ages 16 and older own tablet computers such as iPads or Kindle Fires, up from 10% who owned tablets in late 2011. And in late 2012 19% of Americans ages 16 and older own e-book reading devices such as Kindles and Nooks, compared with 10% who owned such devices at the same time last year.


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http://libraries.pewinternet.org/2012/12/27/e-book-reading-jumps-print-book-reading-declines/

What is with the Obsession with ePub Format? | The eBook Reader Blog



Over the years I've come across dozens and dozens of articles and emails and forum posts about how great the ePub ebook format is and how much better it is than other formats, especially Amazon's proprietary Kindle format.

People think that Amazon should switch to using ePub format because it is more "open" and everyone else is using it so why aren't they.

I, for one, don't understand the obsession with placing the ePub format up on a pedestal. It's been cut up and DRM'd in so many different ways it has become more of a Frankenstein format than anything else out there.

Just because an ebook is in ePub format doesn't make it any more "open" than a Kindlebook. At least with Kindle ebooks you know what you are getting. With ePub ebooks there are so many different DRM restrictions it doesn't even make sense to group all ePub ebooks into the same category.


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http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2013/03/07/what-is-with-the-obsession-with-epub-format/ 

Comparison of e-book formats | Comparison tables - SocialCompare


Comparison of the popular e-book formats (ePub, PDF, Kindle, DjVu…) and the supported well known e-reader devices.

http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/comparison-of-e-book-formats-for-ereaders 

Buying guide: Compare editions | Adobe Digital Publising Suite



Adobe Digital Publishing Suite

Digital Publishing Suite / Buying guide : Compare editions

Adobe® Digital Publishing Suite is a hosted solution with three editions that share much of the same publishing functionality. The Professional and Enterprise editions add distribution, monetization, and measurement capabilities.
Single Edition is for individual designers and small design studios that need to publish a single app.
Professional Edition is for midsize media companies and business publishers that need an off-the-shelf solution.
Enterprise Edition is for larger media corporations, brand organizations, and advertising holding companies that need a custom 


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Sneak Peek: iPad Digital Magazine Production with InDesign + Content Station | WoodWing.com


Plan, create, manage and publish your content without having to leave the Content Station interface
Content Station is an application designed to help content producers create, edit, manage and publish all types of files regardless of their destined output. With Content Station it's possible to think and work in a story-centric way. There's no need to worry about the complexities of interfacing different systems - that's being taken care of by Enterprise in the background. Content is collected in dossiers and can be scheduled for publication selectively.

Content Station also allows users to directly search and download content from external third-party respositories like Fotoware databases, Reuters online systems, and more. All this comes from the Enterprise publishing system's revolutionary data sources feature, allowing users to interact with external systems as if they were inside your working environment.

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Born Accessible: An up-to-the minute update on the tools, standards, techniques and developments that support 'Inclusive Publishing' practices | O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference 2013



Born Accessible: An up-to-the minute update on the tools, standards, techniques and developments that support 'Inclusive Publishing' practices

Moderated by:
Betsy Beaumon (Benetech)

Panelists:
Larry Goldberg (National Center for Accessible Media at WGBH (NCAM)), Rick Johnson (Ingram | VitalSource), George Kerscher (Daisy Consortium), Doug Klein (Nook Media, LLC)


In the past year, more than ever before, resources are becoming available, publishers are setting higher goals, and developers are creating new tools to ensure that people with print disabilities are not excluded from evolving technologies, programs and resources for reading, learning and staying informed. Leaders in the effort to build accessibility in at the source are coming together, creating an environment where content can be "born accessible." Progress is evident in a variety of sectors: federally funded research and development projects, commercial enterprises large and small, cloud-based services with distributed labor both paid and volunteer, hardware and software manufacturers, and advocacy and standards organizations.


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An IP and Copyright Primer: What You Need to Know in an Ever-Evolving Publishing Landscape | O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference 2013



An IP and Copyright Primer: What You Need to Know in an Ever-Evolving Publishing Landscape

Dana Newman 

In a world where authors must increasingly take responsibility for a much wider series of career-management decisions, perhaps none has bigger implications than key copyright and intellectual property decisions. Join Dana Newman, a specialist in these issues, as she runs down the fundamentals that any entrepreneurial author needs to manage in today's shifting content and technology environment.


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http://www.toccon.com/toc2013/public/schedule/detail/27621

Armchair Astronauts: Designing for the Post-Book Era | O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference 2013



Armchair Astronauts: Designing for the Post-Book Era

Corey Pressman (Exprima Media)

The separation of content from container affords publishers and developers an enormous creative opportunity. What was once 'book content' now can be delivered by well designed, open ended, interactive experiences. In the post-book era, readers become users, navigating the frontier from their armchairs via a seamless collusion of multimedia assets. In the post-book era, user-centered interaction design will pave the way for new content shapes, novel experiences, fresh business models, and a revitalized industry.

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http://www.toccon.com/toc2013/public/schedule/detail/26720 

Speaker Slides & Video: O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference 2013 - O'Reilly Conferences, February 12 - 14, 2013, New York, NY

Tools of Change Conference  2013 Speaker Slides & Video. Follow this link to view post-conference resources such as topics and slides by speakers.
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