Indesign Magazine Template

Making your own iPad magazine

A lot of publications are adding iPads and other portable devices to their distribution chains. As a result, we're beginning to see some solutions for small- and medium-sized companies that are starting to approach the idea of offering a self-publishing solution. You can always send people a PDF, but that's really not a magazine, and it won't show up in the App Store.

One interesting product is from some former Apple employees who have started MagAppZine . You submit a PDF, and the company quickly converts it to a magazine and submits it to the App Store for you. You can see some customer examples in the App Store here . Using MagAppZine is not inexpensive, but it's far cheaper than hiring a programmer and managing an App Store submission. Costs are about US$3000 for a magazine, plus charges each time you add a new issue. You get to keep 75% of the revenue if your magazine is a paid creation, MagAppZine gets 25%. That's after the Apple's 30% cut. Naturally, MagAppZine can't guarantee that your app won't get rejected from the App Store, so customers need to understand Apple's rules on content.

I also wanted to bring my magazine onto the iPad and I found a great solution: http://alligatormagazines.com

You will get your own universal app for iPad and iPhone. And what´s really great: you can have dynamic content and not only static pdf. It´s very easy to create your own magazine using a online publishing tool or by creating HTML 5 content with any editor. Furthermore you have a fixed pricing.

I use it for my magazine and I´m really happy.

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I'm not clear on how a full book could be published with MagApp. Wouldn't it be better to convert a book to some sort of eBook format and sell on the book store or other venue?

And the fact that active links in your PDF won't be functional seems limiting.

Interesting idea, I just wonder if it is a bit limited.

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I think perhaps the most interesting magazine creator has been left out. Mag+, who released the first magazine app for Popular Science(PopSci+) has an extremely pleasing way of showing the media and text to a viewer, also has intuitive ways of diving further into certain information. Not sure of pricing but other than PushPopPress, Mag+ is the most pleasing on the eyes and mind.

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24 Page InDesign Magazine A4

24 Page InDesign Magazine A4 Elegant 24 pages magazine that can fit your needs, be it a company, agency, non-profit, school, etc.

Size: A4, 8.27×11.69 inches (210×297 mm)

Worked in: InDesign CS4 Included in the zip file you will also find an InDesign CS3 interchange (INX) files.

Fonts used: CircleD

(Free Font) http://www.fontemple.com/free-download/2112-CircleD.html Delicious

(Free Font) http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/delicious.html Museo

(Free Font) http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/museo.html Tahoma (System Font)

All colors and text are easily customizable. All paragraph styles are properly named. Text and images are divided in separate layers to help customize each one easily and without interfering with the other.

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