• Any external content like websites, videos or scripts can be embedded to overlay your pages
• From youtube videos, to facebook “like” buttons, to twitter feeds and linkedin shares, we’ve got some great widgets already built for you.  You just need to set some fields to get these displaying right on your pages
• Choose the platform you want or don’t want the widget to display. Don’t show flash widgets on mobile devices which can’t load flash OR target an advertisement widget to tablet users.  You’ve got a lot of flexibilty with this tool.
• The only limitation is your imagination!  You can start designing your publications with these widgets in mind.
• PageWidgetImage screenshot shows an embedded youtube video, a facebook like button, and a linked in share button
• PageWidgetOptions screenshot below shows the optional widgets you can add to your pages

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PageWidgetOptions


2) Annotations:  Bookmarks and Sticky Notes

• If you are protecting your publication with subscription or remote authentication, users will be able to set page bookmarks and create notes that will show directly on the page.
• Once users login to their account, they can bookmark pages and make page notes that will always be displayed when they login!
• Great for remembering your place in a publication, or making notes/comments you can reference the next time you view
• Users can just click on the annotation tools at the top right(BOOKMARKS) or bottom left (NOTES) to create (see AnnotationsScreenShot1 below)
• Users can click on sticky note icon to see the full note (AnnotationsScreenShot2)
  
  
  

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3) Other upates and fixes

• New API method get Annotations, for use in conjunction with the annotations feature listed above (2)
• Master Accounts will be able to access newsstand settings if they need to for their sub-accounts…contact support to have this option enabled
• Various bug fixes and system improvements

Dedicated Facebook and Twitter buttons!

Easier access to sharing on Facebook and Twitter!

• Flipbook and Mobile toolbars now have dedicated buttons for Facebook and Twitter! (Image 1)
• Options for social media sharing is now separated from email share option for more flexibility(Image 2)

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Other Updates and Bug Fixes

• Some browsers were cutting off bottom of page displays in the edit title screens – FIXED!
• Page Editor Placement Box inconsistencies after a scroll – FIXED!
• Page replacement tool back online!

Email campaign bounce tracking and more!!!

Email Campaign Bounceback Tracking

• Now track which of your subscribers email addresses are not valid, so you know who is not receiving your email communications
• Manage Subscribers screen now has a “Bounced” field for quick search on those subscribers with invalid emails (See Image 1 and 2 below)
• View the total number of bounces in the improved Email Campaign Report screen (See Image 3 below)
• Also see Emails skipped by our system due to formatting errors in the email address so they are not sent at all

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Other Updates and Fixes

• Page editor bug fixes for placement box offsetting and video uploading.
• Improved mobile platform performance
• Master accounts – Embed google analytics code so you can track all of your sub-account’s stats with one profile (UA code)
• Master accounts – On account creation>”Permissions” tab,  you can click on “apply common” to auto check the standard account options

Choose the default DPI for image quality for your titles!
We have updated our system again!
Choose the Default DPI for Image Quality
We’ve done enough testing with this feature and we are ready to give the power to you!
Our system by default downsamples all images to 125DPI upon processing.  We believe this level of resolution gives the best possible performance/speed for the end user, without a great sacrifice in quality.
We understand however that you may not be satisfied with that level of resolution so you now have the ability to set the default DPI at your title level yourself!
Just edit your title and go to Advanced>ParserDefaults>Default Image DPI (see Default image DPI below)
The three choices are:

• 125: Optimized for clarity and download speed
• 150: Better image clarity on zoom, slower to download
• 200: Best image clarity on zoom, slowest to download

Note that any updates to the DPI settings will affect future uploads only, not existing publications.  Always review your issue post upload within the 12 hour window and delete your issue if you are not satisfied with the results.  You could then up the DPI and try again using that same license as long as you delete within 12 hour window.
If you have problems with existing publications, you can use the page replacement tool to see improved results.
Default image DPI

Other updates/fixes

• Outstanding Page Editor Placement box issues resolved!

Some developers love HTML5 but many others have no other choice but to use it. Native app development is difficult and expensive. In order to build native apps which support iOS and Android, you need multiple developers for each language, and if your app is really hot you’ll need to support apps for Windows Phone, Blackberry, and webOS (although this is mostly HTML5). HTML5 just might be the remedy, but the fact that very few developers choose to use HTML5 exclusively is very interesting. It is true that you get what you pay for.

Three big tech companies address the issue in very different ways:

Apple is totally committed to native apps, but only on their own terms. When the iPhone launched in 2007 the only native apps were the ones made by Apple. If a developer wanted an app on the device and Apple wasn’t that keen on it, they were told to build it in HTML5. Apple knows that HTML5 apps can’t compete with their own native apps, but so many people are confident in the future of the technology that Apple uses it to their advantage.

Google is much less clear on their position. At the past two Google I/O conferences they talked about HTML5 everywhere, but their actions speak louder than their words. Google has done some great work with HTML5 – some of their mobile web apps are arguably the best web apps out there, but they are nowhere near native app good.

Google understands this native app/HTML5 app discrepancy. They are converting an increasing number of their once HTML-based apps to native, on the Android platform and iPhone. They are actively seeking to hire lots of good app developers. Google has been playing both sides the whole time. Development of both Android and Chrome OS has continued totally separate from one another. Chrome OS, a HTML5 operating system, is still secondary to Android, an operating system built entirely around native apps, which is growing quickly.

Facebook seems to be all-in on HTML5. Facebook CTO Bret Taylor has emphasized that HTML5 is a key focus for the social network in 2011. Facebook is so committed to HTML5 that they will be offering development tools to help developers bring their apps, including games, up to speed. This is not good news for Flash.

As far as Android goes, the Facebook Android app has long been a joke when compared to its iPhone counterpart. It is improving slowly, but it’s still not as good. It seems that Facebook is committed to HTML5 – except when native apps offer a better experience, which up to now has been always.

There is still a debate going on, but everyone with the necessary resources seems to choose native. They pay HTML5 plenty of lip-service, but they are all focusing on native apps.

Two powerful cores in one A5 chip, which means the iPad can do twice the work at once.

A ten hour battery life that’s better than the original iPad’s by about an hour.

Two integrated cameras – one on the front and one on the back, which enables using the device for different purposes. The camera that faces you as you look into the iPad
2, for example, can be used to capture your image for the purposes of video chats or Skype video sessions. The other camera can be used as a more traditional movie or still camera. Point your iPad at something you want to film, and let it roll.

It’s 33 percent thinner and up to 15 percent lighter than the original.
An available thin, durable cover that magnetically aligns for a perfect fit automatically wakes and sleeps the iPad. It’s a handy stand for reading,
watching, and typing. Its microfiber lining keeps the screen clean.

The iPad 2 also sports upgraded Wi-Fi compatibility, with the 802.11n standard, for much faster surfing and downloads when connecting to an 802.11n hotspot. 3G connectivity is also standard, for use with mobile carrier networks that support it. Finally, the device’s interface boasts features that iPhone 4 users enjoy, including an “accelerometer” that allows you to rotate the device to landscape mode and have whatever you’re watching adjust itself automatically, as well as “multi-touch” technology, which enables you to move and manipulate objects on the screen with your fingers in a very intuitive manner.
If you were concerned about the original iPad’s lack of a USB or Ethernet port, you’ll have to keep waiting. Some also complained that the original iPad lacked a memory card slot. So does the iPad 2. Apple does sell an iPad Camera Connection kit that allows you to import photos and videos from a digital camera using the camera’s USB cable or an SD card.
With the base model of the iPad 2, you get Wi-Fi connectivity and 16 gigabytes (GB) of memory; the next model up has 32 GB, and costs more. The next higher model, with 64 GB, will cost even more. There is another class of iPad 2 available with both Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity. This series starts at $629, again with more memory increasing the price by 100 dollars each time.
The Wi-Fi + 3G model is a necessity if you want to connect the device to information sources wherever you are.
To sum up, the iPad 2 is a wondrous piece of technology, but the same can be said for the original. If you want to have the latest iteration of this work-in-progress, you will find your money well spent but if the first iPad works for you, sit tight. This evolution is just beginning.

The updates and improvements are:

1)      API version 0.1

-With a little custom programming you will be able to do

things like remotely access your account’s content, upload files,

authenticate users and more!

-Just need the account’s API key and signature string to

build custom applications

-An overview will be available on the API Key tab when this

is launched

2)      Subscription System Improvements

-For New Subscriber Sign Ups:  2 Custom Fields now can be

assigned labels and value types

-You can create a list of values for subscriber to choose

from in a dropdown menu, or allow for any values to be entered

-Custom Fields will only display if made required

-Option to Hide all non-required fields:  Make your sign up

screen cleaner by not showing the fields you don’t need filled out by your

new subscribers

-“Remember Me on This Machine” option for subscribers.

Browser Cookie will set so the user won’t need to enter their username in

the field again (if cookies cache is not cleared by user)

• NEW SUBSCRIPTION SETTINGS: CUSTOM FIELDS and HIDE ALL NON
• REQUIRED FIELDS
• SIGNUP SCREEN: PREDEFINED CUSTOM FIELD VALUES DROPDOWNS
• SIGNUP SCREEN: OPEN VALUE CUSTOM FIELD TYPE
• REMEMBER ME ON THIS MACHINE

3)      Image Quality Choices- ADMIN ONLY TO START

-There will now be 3 options for image quality to choose the

downsampling level.  Set at the title level

-Default will be as the system currently is.  (good clarity

and fastest download speed)

-Other Options will be better clarity/slower download and

best clarity/slowest download(not recommended)

-Although we don’t recommend the best clarity due to the

slowing of flipbook performance, some customers will want the best quality

images at the expense of speed

-This option will be only editable by ADMIN accounts.

Please let us know if you have clients who want clearer images (at the

expense of download speed)

4)      Widget is now in its own iframe

-Prior to this fix, any problems with the widget iframe,

would affect the loading of the publication area as well (eg if twitter is

down, the load of the flipbook would be affected)

-With the fix, the widget iframe will load separately from

the rest of the content, resulting in a faster load of the content.

-NOTE:  If any customers had self targeted links in the

widget area, the change will result in those links opening up in the side

widget iframe only.  They will need to change their self targeting links to

have them open in a new window/tab (eg target=”_blank”)

5)      Improved Mobile 3.0 Performance and Bug Fixes

-Improved pinching and zooming

-Various bug fixes

Save time and effort by using our new Autolink Tool for all of your new uploads and existing issues.

You can search and create links based on website/email addresses, REGULAR EXPRESSION code search, or CSV file.

1) Website or Email addresses (EG http://www.website.com, email@email.com)

• Create an Autolink job that will search your publication for all website URLs and email addresses and create and embed a link, recognizing standard link formats and domains.

2) Regular Expression Code(Specific phrase or word).

• Regular expression is a very complex searching language that you can use to select any defined sequence of characters and have a link created and embedded.
• EG. You could choose all instances of “MYCOMPANY” to become a link to the MYCOMPANY.COM website
• More Information on regular expressions can be found at the following websites:

www.regular-expressions.info
www.zytrax.com/tech/web/regex.htm
geekswithblogs.net/brcraju/articles/235.aspx

3) CSV file for mass link creation

• Use a CSV file with records of 1)Target Text 2)the corresponding link destination URL  3)hovertip(optional)

NOTE: Your CSV file columns must be in the order of 1,2,3(optional)

You can create autolink jobs that will apply to specific existing issues , or apply created jobs when you upload PDFs either manually or if using the FTP automatic upload scheduler.

Welcome Wizard

• Now when you log in to your regular account or master account, you will be presented with a welcome screen with easily identifiable icons and sections to instantly take you where you need to go in the Turn-page system

Other Updates

• Google Analytics interface now has its’ own section in your account profile called “Google Analytics Integration”(Used to be found in “Extras”)
• Help File updated to remove questionable content

Adobe AIR allows developers to use various platforms like HTML5, JavaScript, including the company’s own Flash platform, among others, to build Internet applications that could run locally on supported operating systems like Linux, Mac, Windows, and mobile operating systems, without the need for a browser.

Firstly, released February of 2008, the platform has been installed more than 200-million times and is used by firms like FedEx, eBay, NASDAQ, among others.

Bringing Adobe AIR to mobile platforms like Google’s Android operating system could bring better quality applications with more capabilities to the platform, hence giving the platform (and others that support it) a competitive edge in the mobile market place.

Apple has chosen to block both Adobe’s Flash and AIR platforms from its popular iOS devices like the iPhone 4 citing security and efficiency concerns.

Only weeks ago, security concerns over Flash were amplified when a security flaw was identified (a fix was issued days later via a software update) that could have given hackers complete control over machines that simply had Flash installed.

Apple has traditionally, and some would argue still does, enjoy a competitive advantage over top rivals, including Google, when it comes to variety and quality of available third party applications via its App Store.

However, with support of Adobe AIR coming to smartphones, that dominant position could lessen as a result of a new tool Adobe will be releasing to developers that would allow them to easily port applications to other platforms.

The tool allows developers to use the same code-base to port the exact same application to work on different platforms, like iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux, or any other platform that supports Flash.

The company has announced a firm time-frame as to when it would make the tool available, but recently said it would soon publish documentation so that developers could learn more.
Most developers only opted to develop applications for the iPhone ecosystem given the lucrative prospect of high sales from the hugely popular App Store.

With Adobe AIR, the developers would easily publish their apps across all the major platforms; meaning Apple’s dominance when it comes to third party apps could disappear, while other platforms like the BlackBerry which traditionally had less application variety would also see the apps ported to that platform as well.

Apple has already made its position clear, the company says it has no plans to add Flash support to iOS devices.

• When you log into your account, click on Profile to see the new interface
• View Profile, Edit Profile and Usage Report tab (Generate reports on issue usage and email campaigns)

Google Analytics

• We’ve completed our testing phase and Turn-Page clients now have the ability to add a Google Analytics Profile ID (UA Code) to track all of their titles and issues

Subscription Preview Function

• You can now give interested subscribers a sneak peak at your digital edition by allowing them access to the first few pages
• You can set the number of pages potential subscribers can see. They can access from the log in pop up in the reader
• Previously only accessible if remotely authenticating subscribers using your own database

Geo Location Targeting

• Geo Location refers to the physical location of the visitor based on their IP Address. With Geo Location Campaigns, you can serve different publications to different geographically located visitors. As an example, you can serve publication “a” to visitors in Los Angeles and publication “b” to visitors in Texas. For each campaign, you will be given one unique link that, once clicked on, will do all the work of figuring out your visitors’ location and serve up the correct content. This means you can market one link, but serve up hundreds of different publications across the globe based on your campaign settings.

Custom Domains and Link URLS

• Add your own CUSTOM Domain

Mask any Turn-Page references and build your branding by choosing your own domain!  All link references, email marketing and system notifications will reflect your domain which you can set at the title level.  You’ll also get a generic CDN URL(content delivery network) as well if you choose to add your own custom domain to fully mask any data transfer from Turn-Page in your browser. This feature comes at an additional cost so please contact us for pricing.

eg.  If your website is www. yourdomain. com, you could use a domain such as ebook. yourdomain. com through which all links and  communications will reflect.  This is a great way to connect your digital publications to your branding, completely removing Turn-Page references from your reader’s experience.

• Use the generic domain

If you don’t need a custom domain but still would like to mask any reference to Turn-Page, you can choose a generic domain at the title level.  Every customer now has the ability to choose the generic domain http://www.epageflip.net. ; All link references, email marketing and system notifications will then reflect this generic domain and not www.turn-page.com

eg.  Instead of www. Turn-page. com/issue/XXXXX, you can choose your links to show www. epageflip. net/issue/XXXXX

If you’d like to add another domain such as your own(see below), please contact us for pricing.

Embed a Bookshelf

• Give visitors to your website a quick and easy way to access all issues under one of your titles by embedding a bookshelf in your website.  Just copy a small piece of code from the Turn-Page system, paste it in your web page and all issues under your chosen title will be accessible from the bookshelf.  Choose the size and one of three styles to get the look and feel you want.

Coming soon!

• Link Target Behaviour

Coming very soon to the Turn-Page system will be the ability to choose how a link works when clicked in the reader.

You will be able to choose from 4 link behaviours for external web links to better control your reader’s experience.

1. Open up the link target in a new page or tab (default)
2. Open up the link target in the same window
3. Open up the link target in a pop up iFrame
4. Open up the link target in the side widget area

More about Geo Location Campaigns – Starter Guide

Below is a breakdown of how the Geo Location Campaigns work and how you can leverage the power of geo targeting with your publications.

What is Geo Location Targeting?

Geo Location refers to the physical location of the visitor based on their IP Address. With Geo Location Campaigns, you can serve different publications to different geographically located visitors. As an example, you can serve publication “a” to visitors in Los Angeles and publication “b” to visitors in Texas. For each campaign, you will be given one unique link that, once clicked on, will do all the work of figuring out your visitors’ location and serve up the correct content. This means you can market one link, but serve up hundreds of different publications across the globe based on your campaign settings.
Setting Up Your First Campaign:

The first step is to name your campaign with a descriptive title so that you can easily identify it later on. The next fields are essentially your first entry in the campaign. Each entry is comprised of 2 basic parts:

1. The publication: here you can select either a specific Issue, or a Title. If no Issue is selected, it is essentially the same as choosing a Title link (the most recently published Issue within the Title will display)
2. The location in which this publication will display. This can be as broad as a continent, or as targeted as a major city. The “default” option should be used as a fallback for visitors that don’t meet any of your specified locations.

Once you create your first entry, you will be able to continuously add entries to your new campaign. You can add as many entries as you like.

The system will always fall back to the most relevant specified location. For example, if you set New York City, New York to display publication ‘a’, and all of New York State to display publication ‘b’, a visitor in Manhattan will see publication ‘a’, while a visitor in Buffalo will see publication ‘b’.

How is Location Determined?

The system uses a consistently updated IP Address table to determine a visitor’s location with approximately 98% accuracy (industry standard). In the event that we cannot determine the location of the user, if a ‘default’ entry is present, this publication will be displayed. If ‘default’ is not present, a ‘not found’ error page will display instead. It’s up to you if you wish to ensure that ALL visitors view a publication or not.

Examples of Use:

• Example 1: different language documents for different counties
  If you have multiple Issues within a Title that are all the same annual report in different languages, you can setup a campaign to serve, for example, the French Issue to visitors from France, the Spanish Issue to visitors from Spain, etc. In this example you could set the English Issue as the default.
• Example 2: different ad campaigns targeted to specific audiences.
  Imagine a monthly magazine whereby all ads must be geographically targeted. In this instance, for each location a duplicate Title would exist with the same Issues, with only the advertisements being targeted to different cities within the United States. Therefore, if there were 3 localized issues each month for East, West and Central this Geo Location could have entries for every major city in the United States serving up 1 of 3 of the localized Titles. Although this would mean hundreds of entries, because each entry would point to a Title and not Issue, this campaign would only need to be setup once, and the Geo Link produced would continue to serve up the correct content month after month.

In conclusion, Geo Targeting is an extremely powerful tool for targeting specific content to your audience.

A recent report from the CMS Wire revealed that the digital newspaper publishing industry is moving to the mobile digital publishing news craze. Now people will be able to use their mobile devices to read the latest news stories from news brands like “Orlando Sentinel,” CNN, and Philly.com. That means digital newspaper publishing is going 3.0. Time will tell when digital magazine publishing will catch on. But many of these newspapers have digital magazine publishing brands in their media family.

Consumers who want to publish on the iPad to user-generated sites that feed content to newspapers may find that to publish on the iPad is not as convenient as using their mobile phone to publish. They will look to rapid iPad mobile app development for new apps that will make submitting content easier.

This important trend in digital publishing is also echoed by other tech companies focused on iPad mobile app development and apps for other mobile devices. The same article reported that MSNBC is reformatting its advertising format on its website. Users won’t have to look at a bunch of ads on their screen when they visit the website. MSNBC will sell one ad for each page, making a better viewing experience for website users. Also, a person with a mobile device will have a quicker page loading time.

In other digital publishing news, Amazon is lowering the price of Kindles and Nook readers and offering audio and video enhanced books for mobile devices like the iPad, the iPhone and the iPod Touch. It seems Amazon won’t be outpaced in this mobile explosion.

The mobile digital publishing news industry may also start paying more attention to a new solution developed by Automatic for WordPress. The new Plinky service that users must subscribe to gives motivational questions to users to jar them into thinking of new content to type on their screen. This new app may be the next craze since Twitter, but it is reminiscent of the box already common on some user-generated content sites. For example, Facebook has the classic prompt at the top of a user’s Home page — “What’s on your mind?”

And the result that a user types into Plinky’s question of the day is easily fed to his web profile on other social media sites. A great thing about Plinky is its tag-friendliness. A user’s post may be instantly linked to other content, such as photos, playlists, and maps. This is a great solution for people who want a quick way to think of something that will post to Facebook, Twitter, or another blogging service.