What Is a Digital Magazine?

An electronic publishing method that uses exquisitely produced, sophisticated content, information clusters, books and periodicals, graphics, data, audio and video in a comprehensive application.

Digital Magazine

At the beginning of 2006, in less than two months, more than 20 large digital magazine distribution platforms in China flocked online. Acer, Lenovo, IDG, Carlyle and other venture capitalists have shot up, smashing into a billion in digital magazines. E-magazines, interactive magazines, digital magazines,

The term "magazine" is derived from French, meaning "warehouse", and then refers to the publishing method of clusters. In 1931, it was given the meaning of a journal and was further deconstructed in terms of expression. Essentially, a "magazine" is a way of gathering information, and a hyperlinked Internet site can also be called a digital magazine. In fact, the first generation of digital magazines appeared in the form of hyperlinked web pages, and the development of multimedia magazines is already the third generation of digital magazines.

Maybe if you open your e-mail now, you can often receive mailing lists such as "So-and-so Securities Magazine". Many online magazines and the once very famous ColdTea electronic magazines can be classified as the first generation of digital magazines. The most famous technology service provider of the first generation of digital magazines is the mailing list expert, which is still in operation, the Greek network. The mailing list has become almost synonymous with the first generation of digital magazines.

The first generation of digital magazines was convenient for reading because its essence was a general html webpage. However, the form of "magazine" in people's concepts was almost impossible to reflect, but it was more like a "manuscript of sheepskin". As a result, e-books such as hlp, chm, pdf, exe, and ppt started to become popular. Someone on the Internet specially copied the materials in foreign electronic libraries and packaged them into exe e-books for downloading. Synonymous with digital magazines. Among them, the pdf e-book technology developed by the well-known Adobe company has been adopted by media publishing organizations because of the support of Peking University Founder's electronic typesetting and editing system. But people are most familiar with HLP or CHM e-books, because almost every computer has help files in HLP or CHM format.

Although the second-generation digital magazines bind the files together, they no longer seem to be scattered, but they are almost static, dead faces, and require special software or download the magazine to the local area. read. The third generation of digital magazine technology that followed, which is commonly referred to as the "multimedia magazine" technology, has completely changed the face of digital magazines and established the basic form of digital magazines. Coupled with the rapid development of the mobile Internet in recent years, mobile phone magazines for mobile terminals have gradually appeared, and reading has become anytime, anywhere. The better mobile phone magazines include viva, zaker, and domestic wireless, digital magazines are increasingly enriching people's lives. .

Multimedia magazine is a kind of electronic publishing method that uses exquisitely produced, concise content, information clusters, books and periodicals effects of graphics, data, audio and video. Its realistic books and periodicals, turning the page will also make a gurgling sound; dynamic graphics, click on the villain on the book can still speak; graceful background music, wonderful videos, three-dimensional images, etc., all give people With an amazing reading experience.

Multimedia magazines also have the trouble of no issue and no printing cost. The content is easy to update and the magazine circulates quickly. It can be integrated with the website and can interact with the readers. Graphic materials can be easily copied and copyrighted. Protection, can also accurately feedback the number of readings, reader levels, set reading permissions, etc., a series of advantages. "Multimedia Magazine" has become synonymous with the third generation of digital magazines.