This may be of interest and/or worth considering 😀
Apple has just bought a digital-publishing start-up, in what look like the next step in a shift towards more focus from Apple on content-sales. Good news for all of us.
This latest acquisition is aimed at the magazine market and will likely be integrated into the iAuthor ebook creation tool, or run alongside as a dedicated e-magazine creation tool, allowing small publishers and individuals to produce e-zines of comparable quality to the content currently available from the big players.
E-zines are an area in which indie authors would do well to invest some serious thought.
Not ideal for everyone, but for many – especially those planning image-rich non-fiction, etc – a periodic e-magazine (quarterly, for example) would be a great way to reach a new readership who are regular magazine readers but not so heavily invested in reading books.
Apple already has the software to make great illustrated books, and…
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Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog 
Hmm. Ezines are ok, but…
I contributed to one particularly well known Ezine for several years Chris, before I parted company with it. Why? Because when it comes to people commenting on any article published in it, the owner/editor despite declaring fairness for all, allowed attacks on the articles and their authors.
Will I be looking for another Ezine? No thanks. In my case its ‘once bitten,twice shy’.
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That’s an interesting reblog Chris. Apple always used to lead the visual market, being the preferred computer and OS of choice (in the past) for graphic designers and all forms of print/publishing. The inclusion of free Comic Life on my two, now dated, lap top and desk top, plus the Pages package – now available free on both iPad and iPhone – and now this, shows they are looking at new ways to reach people wanting to use image-rich content.
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I agree – I even posted a reblog about interactive comics on 8th – see it at:
https://thestoryreadingapeblog.com/2014/09/08/quantum-conscience-released-for-desktop-computers/
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Something to bear in mind when thinking about image-rich content is that, using KDP, Amazon charge by file size. We are aware of several authors who have uploaded photo-album style ebooks (travel, cookery, etc) only to find they had negative royalties because Amazon’s delivery charge was more than the list price.
The way round this is to opt for the 35% royalty, not the 70%, Ebooks earning 35% are exempt from delivery charges, so can actually give you a better return.
Amazon is the only retailer to charge the author foe delivering ebooks. For a typical novel the charge is only about 5c, so no-one objects too much. But it’s just one more way in which author-friendly Amazon isn’t so author friendly. At that rate Amazon is pocketing $100 for every 2,000 ebooks sold, on top of the 30% list price.
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As a short fiction writer i would think that this would be good too. The markets that used to exist for short stories have been gradually drying up. Seeing new places to publish is a good thing
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Hope it helps Suteko 😀
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