Digital magazines

Last summer I wrote about the next wave in online magazines. An anonymous reader recently left a comment with "a better example of what digital magazines should be like" and linked to Contract Magazine.

I checked it out and agree the format is very cool. It's powered by Pressto. Daniel Gonzalez, Technology Director for Parallel Publishing, a sales and service division of The McMahon|Willis Company charged with marketing this new publishing platform, says the technology will "help publishers of a wide range of print publications make the most of their investment in that print content, and at the same time, take their content to the next level and take full advantage of the digital medium."

If you clicked through the links in the previous paragraph, you quickly found that access to the site is restricted, or there's only a placeholder page. I found Dan by going to whois and searching for the owner of the Pressto Publishing domain name. Dan explains "Parallel was launched this past spring, and currently MW has several patents pending surrounding the Pressto platform, hence the veil of secrecy that surrounds our site(s)."

So, if you want to be on the leading edge of digital publishing, request a password to view a demo of Pressto. But first you have to agree to the terms of use.