PC Pro magazine (available in the UK) is offering a staggering deal. Get a free (ok, so the magazine costs £3.99) fully working version of QuarkXPress 5 for the PC. It’s on the free disc with the March issue of PC Pro available now. This could prove really useful for journalism students. Quark is currently […]
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E-Magazines and the “bog, bus and bath test.”
Exact Editions has launched a website selling subscriptions to "e-editions" of various paper magazines. Titles include: The Spectator, Dazed & Confused and err…Kite World. There’s nothing innovative going on here. The e-versions are just copies of the paper editions. It’s just normally cheaper to subscribe to the e-version. A paper subscription to Press Gazette costs […]
BBC Journalism College embraces e-learning and it’s all free (for now)
The BBC Journalism Training College is set to launch a new site, boosting the amount of journalism training material it makes available for free online. According to an article in Press Gazette and blogged at The Editors Weblog yesterday: "The site launches with 500 pages and over 40 video clips with both practical exercises, how-to […]
InDesign or Quark – which has largest market share in UK newspaper / magazine publishing?
I get asked this question a lot. The Uni won’t be upgrading from Quark 6.5 to 7and tutors are being encouraged to switch to teaching InDesign CS2. So which DTP software has the largest market share in UK publishing? Unfortunately, I don’t yet have a definitive answer….I’ll update this article if I do! Here’s what […]
Digital Magazines – is Monkey Mag the future?
Dennis Publishing has launched a rival to Nuts and Zoo called Monkey. What’s different to Dennis’ other mags, which include Maxim and Bizarre, is that Monkey is Internet-only – it’s an e-magazine for the ‘MySpace generation’. A subscription is free. Whilst the design is impressive, much of the content seems to be culled from other […]
