The Seybold Report

Newsquest Selects Miles 33 Media and Advertising Sales Systems

Miles 33 has announced Newsquest Media Group, a Gannett company and major United Kingdom print and online publisher, will install a 1500-seat Miles 33 Gemstone system and SAM, Miles 33's online customer self-service portal module. As a result, Miles 33 says, Newsquest will have a Cloud-based solution to handle its advertising media sales for its newspapers, magazines, and digital media outlets. more

Quark Announces Multi-Channel Publishing Platform

Quark has announced the Quark Publishing Platform designed to meet the needs of modern publishers. The company says the new system makes it easy for Word users to write and edit stories in XML format and provides access to the full tool set through a Web browser to support mobile authors and editors. more

Moscow Daily Chooses vjoon

Popular Moscow evening newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva has relaunched its paper and online editions in a new news facility using vjoon K4 and Software-as-a-Service. The publisher worked with vjoon’s Russian integration partner Terem-Media  to bring all print and online departments onto a unified publishing system in a new, state-of-the-art newsroom. Together they brought 150 editorial staff members online in the publishing network in just three months. Vechernyaya Moskva is one of the most widely read dailies in the Moscow metropolitan region with a circulation of 300,000 for the daily editions nd 1.15 million for the weekly. more

vjoon K4 to Fully Support Adobe CS6

Vjoon has announced its K4 multi-channel digital publishing suite will soon be fully compatible with Adobe CS6. more

WoodWing Announces Support for Adobe CS6

WoodWing Software has announced WoodWing Enterprise, including its Digital Publishing Tools, will be upgraded soon to support Adobe CS6. more 

MPA and Magazine Publishers Develop Voluntary Guidelines for Advertising on Tablets

The Magazine Publishing Association (MPA) and senior magazine publishing executives have developed a common set of definitions, a consistent position on timing for data release, and guidelines on tablet advertising metrics. These voluntary guidelines are intended to clarify measurement of magazine media audiences on tablets for advertisers. The guidelines recommend five initial metrics for use by magazines, agencies, and advertisers:

1. Total customer paid digital issues,
2. Total number of tablet readers per issue,
3. Total number of sessions per issue,
4. Total time spent per reader per issue, and
5. Average number of sessions per reader per issue.

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WoodWing Announces Enterprise 7.6 Multi-Channel Publishing System

WoodWing has announced the latest version of the Enterprise multi-channel publishing system with upgrades to support the new iPad retina display and further optimization of the system’s usability, performance, and efficiency. Enterprise supports publishing to print, Web, social media, smartphones and tablets including both iOS and Android devices. The company will demonstrate the latest version at WoodWing Xperience in Amsterdam March 27-28. more 

Zinio Announces Interactive Mobile Authoring Tools

Zinio has announced Zinio Fusion, a tool suite for interactive content creation. Fusion offers three approaches and products for enhancing design and interaction for digital platforms: a do-it-yourself Web tool for embedding rich media, a build-out for creating interactive and multi-layered InDesign pages, and integration and content transcoding for external authoring tools such as Woodwing’s Digital Publishing System. more

WoodWing Starts Next Wave Tour on Digital Publishing

After a successful pilot event in Amsterdam January 24, WoodWing has kicked off its Next Wave Tour of free, local, one-day workshops. The sessions are intended for magazine and newspaper publishers, corporate publishing groups, and agencies, and the tour will go through the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. more

Time Inc. Publishes 21 Titles on Tablets

Time Inc. has completed expansion of its digital publishing program and has put all 21 Time Inc. publications on tablets using Woodwing and Adobe technology. All Time Inc. titles are available on the iPad, Android, WebOS as well as the NOOK Color and Amazon Kindle Fire. more

Mediaspectrum Adds Reader Behavior Tracking

Mediaspectrum Inc. has released Adrenalin 2.0, a Cloud platform for managing complex multimedia content, advertising, and subscriptions. Adrenalin automates mobile news, publishing, and commerce for digital readership tracking. The new version adds more robust ad serving and reader behavior tracking on both editorial and advertising to support advanced analytics. Publishers can aggregate this reader data in near real time to accurately target digital content and advertising. more 

Texterity Introduces Magazine App for Amazon Kindle Fire

Texterity has announced a native Kindle Fire app. Texterity can build a Kindle Fire app directly from a publisher’s existing Android app or from the material a magazine publisher creates for an iPad or Amazon tablet app. more 

Publishers Weekly Goes with vjoon K4 and MEI

Publishers Weekly has chosen the vjoon K4 Cross-Media Publishing Platform and worked with MEI to handle the installation for multi-channel publishing for its flagship periodical and a supplemental newsletter and plans to add several other newsletters to the system. more

WoodWing Releases Enterprise 7.5

WoodWing has released Enterprise 7.5, the latest version of its multi-channel publishing suite, featuring increased integration with the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. more

Rolling Stone Uses K4, Adobe DPS, and MEI to Create Beatles App

Rolling Stone has developed an iPad App guide to the Beatles using vjoon K4 and the integrated Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. The development project’s workflow was designed by Managing Editor Inc. (MEI) to work alongside Wenner’s print process to use existing content and familiar tools. Rolling Stone has used vjoon K4 Cross-Media Publishing Platform since 2008. more