Comments on: Introducing MagCloud and the Future of Magazine Publishing

By: garybau

garybau — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:10:35 +0000

plenty of implications for other short run/high cost publications as well…

i’m thinking of k-12 school textbooks
the typical comment from publishers is the market is too small for niche learning projects, so by the time the texbook(s) is/are written they are so bland as to attempt to please the greatest market

..and please no-one..due to the compromises made on the way

magcloud has huge potential in education…and for countries which are connected but small!!..or states with special interests or priorities which do not fit the national curricula – Tasmania!?

By: Meghan

Meghan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:33:41 +0000

I was so excited when I read about this that I leapt up off the giant box of Zeugma back issues I’d been using as a chair and shouted “Hooray!”

Seriously, amazing.

Meghan

By: bowerbird

bowerbird — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:20:51 +0000

boom! art in the cloud and on glossy stock. superb!

-bowerbird

By: Noel Hurtley

Noel Hurtley — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:04:31 +0000

I think you have a game-changing idea on your hands. I can’t wait to see how this plays out.

By: Derek Powazek

Derek Powazek — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:58:32 +0000

Note to commenters: If you want to ask questions about MagCloud, please do it here! Thanks.

By: Ajit

Ajit — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:50:21 +0000

Could you create one for DVD publishin? :)

By: PureDesign

PureDesign — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:23:20 +0000

I am assuming that you will provide estimates of production costs or exact costs based on page count and page size? Also, how will the publications be offered, directly through your website through individual sales or subscriptions? I guess marketing the magazines will be a joint effort.

Also, most people are clueless about the requirements of printing such as image resolution, bleed, embedding fonts, etc. Will there be any education or quality control? Will you provide people with pdf settings to avoid trouble? You are basically opening up the magazine publishing world to every Tom, Dick and Harry with a computer and many of them have no design sense or training. I suppose you will just print whatever they send, good or bad.

Thanks

By: Bone

Bone — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:24:34 +0000

Very intriguing!

You talk about how wonderful paper is – and I agree more than you know.

For this reason, I am so disappointed that you don’t talk about the actual paper that the magazines are printed on (though the website does mention weight).

My big question – if not request – is that MagCloud offer two paper grades. A coated and an uncoated. Simple fact is that paper is so ingrained in the design. Some content and subjects demand one or the other. E.G. – Pencil sketches are so out of place printed on coated stock.

Also, are custom sizes available up to a max width and length on the finished size? Or could there be standard format options available? For a project so exciting, a world of 8.5 x 11 can be so boring.

Keep working!

- Bone

By: Halcyon

Halcyon — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:41:30 +0000

SWEET! This inspired me to open InDesign for the first time, ever.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:14:51 +0000

That’s so awesome. What a way to save paper and essentially trees! And since the world is becoming so much more dependent on electronics… well this just reaches out to everyone :-)