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Ideas for the future of publishing take shape
2013
Overview
The phrase \"digital skeuomorphism\" has gained currency in recent years as a way of describing the trend for software interfaces to mimic their real-life counterparts - with calendar apps looking like a physical filofax, or a list of ebooks that appear to sit on a bookshelf. It's a widely criticised approach, and [Craig Mod] points out that that the trend isn't restricted to the look and feel of the magazine apps. Among the first to take advantage of these new possibilities was Marco Arment, the US developer who created the \"read-later\" service Instapaper. Seeing the possibilities created by iPad's AppStore and Newsstand, he created The Magazine - a fortnightly magazine that costs $1.99 per month, downloads automatically to your iPad or iPhone and features writing on a variety of topics. In his introductory essay, Arment wrote: \"I don't consider The Magazine to be a member of 'the magazine industry' any more than blogs are members of 'the publishing industry'. Those terms evoke the old and established, while this is the new and experimental.\"
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The Irish Times Ltd
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