Digital Magazine and Newspaper Editions: Best Practice Cases
� Print
� Share by email
� Clickable URLs
� Blog permalinks
� Social bookmarking through 10 different sites
� Search across current issue, selected issue, all issues, or across multiple
publications
� Portable bookmarks and other user-based saved features – videos viewed,
searched, etc.
� Embedded video, including HD video
� Integrated RSS feeds
� Multiple language capability
RIDE offers these additional features for publishers:
� Ad placement on toolbar, “Loading” box, and various other locations around the
digital edition and in emails.
� Online real-time reporting on pages viewed, time spent, clickthroughs, and
more
� Reports can be emailed and downloaded.
� DRM features in digital editions can make them accessible to subscribers for a
set time period, set number of reads, or set number of issues.
� Integrated email delivery for new-issue notification and new-subscriber
welcome.
� Content distributed via a global Content Delivery Network assuring the fastest
access, even for those at the edge of the Internet.
Services Offered
Advanced Publishing provides a subscription management system that enables
publishers to sell online subscriptions (or give them away for free).
In addition to RIDE, Advanced Publishing offers the engage platform for publishing
opt-in email campaigns. Engage includes tools for list management as well as creating,
delivering, and analyzing performance of email marketing campaigns.
Advanced Publishing also offers consulting services to help publishers with their online
strategies. Services include Web site design and development, digital circulation
building programs, and e-marketing campaign design and development.
Publisher Interfaces
Advanced Publishing accepts print-ready PDF files. It accepts video for embedding in
digital editions in Windows Media Video, QuickTime, AVI, MPEG, and standard VC – 1
format.
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