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A digital edition is an online magazine presented in a such a way that it looks just like a print magazine but often with the addition of interactive elements such as videos and moving adverts. Current technologies fall into two categories: Reader-based or Browser-based. The former requires the download of an application and subsequent download of digital edition titles. The latter requires no download and is normally Flash-based.
History
A PDF presents documents digitally in a fixed layout format[1]. Early digital magazines were just this and were direct copies of offline magazines that were available digitally.[2]
In 2008, digital magazines now present the same fixed layout format but many with the addition of page turning technology, which visualises the page turning over like it would with a physical magazine, and any flash technology that is relevant e.g. animations, video, forms and links.[3][4][5]
Some non web based digital magazine products also offer the additional benefits of search and bookmarking functionalities and the ability to save and store a catalogue of magazines to a computer's hard drive. A document reader software download is usually required to manage the downloading, storage and reading of these digital editions.
Digital editions are also known as digital magazines, ezines, e-editions and emags.
See also
Notes
- ^ Adobe Systems Incorporated, PDF Reference, Sixth edition, version 1.23 (30 MB), p. 33
- ^ "Digital magazines: a history". Magforum. Retrieved on 2008-07-01.
- ^ "Product". CerosMedia. Retrieved on 2008-07-01.
- ^ "Olive ActiveMagazine". Olive Software. Retrieved on 2008-07-01.
- ^ "Digital magazine features & benefits". nxtbook media. Retrieved on 2008-07-01.
