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Question: I've got issues

Terminal Verbosity — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:41:19 -0800

Please recommend a virtual magazine host.

So, I edit an e-zine, which we host with a third party. That company, Bluetoad, is apparently at the center of the Apple UDID leak. Their website is now down and I'm on the lookout for something better.

I need a platform that will, in descending order of importance, do the following:

Take in a pdf and output an interactive e-zine

Enable linking

Have some sort of analytics built in

Display well in a magazine format on a computer as well as on a tablet

Not cost a fortune

One thing Bluetoad does that I like is keep a database of advertisers so that linking ads is not a chore

I have a domain name. I'd like it if the link to the magazine were www.domain.com/issue, not www.onlinemags.biz/domain-online/48332qwe45

Have pretty pretty page transitions, skins and other features

I've come across issuu.com and flippingbook.com. Do you have testimonials for these services? Would you recommend another?

By: lalex

lalex — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:11:15 -0800

Coming in to emphatically insist that you not use Zinio. I subscribe to Games Magazine, which uses that platform, and it it truly awful from a user perspective. I think MeFiMag used MagCloud - might be worth checking out.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:26:46 -0800

MeFi Mag did use MagCloud, but that service is for print, not online.

Issuu is nice, but I"m not sure it does linking. The paid version, which isn't expensive, might.

By: misskaz

misskaz — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:28:50 -0800

My company uses Texterity. I don't know much about pricing though.

By: Terminal Verbosity

Terminal Verbosity — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:35:11 -0800

For posterity (FWIW—these are internet platforms, after all), we went with FlippingBook.