We are happy to announce another feature in Issue Stand PDF Editor. I hope it will make your publishing process even easier.
Now you can measure the weight of your PDF file with all widgets you have used. You are also able to check on which page each widget was added.
You can find our new feature in the PDF Editor. You can see the weight of video, audio files and photo galleries.
Look at the animated gif below to see what it works:
Video Player is one of the most popular widget in Issue Stand. However, some of our clients have problems with the weight of video files. Some files are just too big to add to the mobile magazine and the process of downloading the file and uploading it again to Issue Stand is too long.
To solve this problem we’ve decided to introduce a brand new feature: YouTube widget. Now publishers are able to add a YouTube movie directly into their magazine, without saving it to their hard drive first.
Look at the animated gif below to see what it looks like.
We’re really happy to release a new exciting feature available in your Issue Stand Editor. It just got even more powerful: you can now edit your Table of Contents without additional software or a need to leave Issue Stand!
For the last few weeks we were pretty busy implementing all new version of Issue Stand Dashboard. It’s a place where you, as a publisher, spend most of your time when using our tool. We know your time is important, that’s why we wanted to make it as easy as possible to manage your magazine, enhance your PDF or take a look on statistics.
It’s a real pleasure to present you brand new Dashboard:
We’re really happy to finally release something that we’ve worked so hard on the past few weeks. We have gathered everything we learned about increasing magazine sales during the process of building our company, developing tools and launching your applications together with you.
11 Ways to Increase Magazine Sales is our first free e-book and our main goal is to help you sell more.
Our mission here at Issue Stand is to make it insanely easy for publishers to go mobile and have their magazines available on tablets, both iPads and Androids. But being available and present, not necessarily means being profitable and earning more. Tablet market is a huge deal, but App Store revenues are another thing.
Do you know, that 5% of all application publishers earn 95% of revenue from the whole App Store sales? Numbers are not in your favor and we are aware of that.
This is the reason why we’ve decided to not only help publishers take their first steps with digital publishing, but also to help them be profitable, earn more and increase their sales revenue.
This ebook is just a first step. We’re gathering all our experience, lessons and experiments in one place to help you start earn more. But that’s just a tip of the iceberg. We’re working on something much bigger and more important.
Yves Rocher is the first catalog, not magazine, we have published. We knew Issue Stand could be used for so much more different things than magazines and now here it is. Our first catalog! Keep reading to learn how you can use Issue Stand to meet your company goals.
Recently, there is a big discussion about Apple Newsstand in the whole digital publishing industry. Giving our experience, we wouldn’t be ourselves without being a part of this.
It all started back in 2012, when John Gruber wrote a blogpost saying that for him, Newsstand is the place where apps go to be forgotten. But it was the time when iOS 6 was still the biggest king in the town. With iOS 7 and updates for developers API, things seem to take turn for worse. Some publishers started to slowly abandon Newsstand, others teach people how to hide Newsstand and some even tried to redesign Newsstand on their own.
Our mission here at Issue Stand is to make it insanely easy for people to publish their magazines on tablets. We want to take a load off publisher’s minds, to help and assist them with every step until the final release of their application and beyond. We commit ourselves to making the publisher’s life easier, to save both money and time.
Recently we’ve noticed the raising number of companies doing tablet and smartphone publishing and at the same time, the raising number of questions: “Which solution to choose?”, “What’s the difference between X and Y?” or “How are you better than X?”. That’s a good sign because the every competitor push us even further to satisfy our customers and that’s good for everyone in our industry.
We’re proud to announce a new series here at our blog: Digital Publishing Best Practices. Every week or so we’re going to deliver to your door one good advice you can implement during one day. At the end of the series, your magazine will be better, you will sell more and your readers will love you even more than they do know.
In our first article we’re going to tell you everything about making your digital edition a pleasant experience for your readers.
By watching hundreds of magazines launches in recent months we learned a couple of useful tips and tricks on increasing magazine sales. They’re all possible with your Issue Stand subscription so you can start selling more tomorrow!
Recently on this blog we explained a difference between print and digital subscription. Basing on our experiences, subscriptions can be a big part of revenue stream. They’re also auto-renewable — it means that your readers stay with you for a longer period of time because it’s easy and fast. They don’t have to order a new issue every month and confirm in-app purchases. New issue simply appears on their iPad with no additional actions required.
