4th February 2010
Imagine launches iPhone and iPad editions of its magazines
Entire specialist magazine portfolio now available in digital form to
over 75 million iPhone, iPod Touch and Apple iPad users
Imagine Publishing today announced the full scale launch of its latest
digital magazine initiative, in partnership with technology company,
PixelMags.
This exciting new development sees the entire Imagine magazine
portfolio available for immediate download worldwide via the App Store
to be used on the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and new Apple iPad. With
over 75 million of these devices already sold, it means more people
can enjoy Imagine’s magazines than ever before.
From today iPhone Apps for iCreate, Advanced Photoshop, X360, 3D
Artist and Total 911 are live on the iTunes App Store, with respected
international magazine brands games™, SciFiNow, Retro Gamer, Play,
Smartphone Essentials, Photoshop Creative, Digital Photographer, 360,
Web Designer, PowerStation, Digital Camera Essentials, Digital Artist,
Linux User and How it Works live soon after.
Once the App for each magazine is purchased and downloaded, users can
read the latest issue free in its entirety, purchase back issues or
subscribe within the App using their iTunes accounts. The digital
editions are then stored on the device, meaning they can then be
browsed without an Internet or WiFi connection, and issues can even be
shared for a limited time with friends.
The innovative new PixelMags magazine App technology offers a level of
quality and usability unmatched by digital editions previously, with
users able to flick the digital pages, scan through the contents
quickly to find the best articles, bookmark, share and view the zoomed
or full-screen pages in landscape or portrait modes.
Imagine’s digital editions also benefit from embedded video clips,
live links, and the convenience of in-App purchasing, which makes it
as easy for customers to enjoy their favourite magazines. PixelMag
digital magazines subscriptions are also certified by the Audit Bureau
of Circulations.
Damian Butt, Managing Director of Imagine Publishing said of the
collaboration: “PixelMags’ publisher-friendly collaborative approach
made launching our digital magazines onto a global platform simple,
and they share our fast-paced approach and ambitions. Imagine’s high
value specialist magazine content can now be accessed anywhere in the
world on iPhone and iPad with this exciting new digital technology,
and it is another example of Imagine’s innovation in the publishing
sector.”
Commenting on the launch of the Imagine Apps, Mark Stubbs, CEO of
PixelMags said: “We are particularly excited to be working with
Imagine Publishing, one of the fastest-growing consumer specialist
magazine publishers in the UK. It has been gratifying to bring their
many publications to the millions of iPhone and iPod Touch users,
especially since Imagine was one of the first publishers to take
advantage of our incredible new technology.”
Mark Kendrick, Creative Director at Imagine Publishing said of the
digital magazine launch: “Our new iPhone and iPad magazine range
developed in conjunction with our partners at Pixelmags once again
demonstrates that Imagine Publishing is at the forefront of publishing
innovation. It’s a new dawn for publishing and I’m proud that we at
Imagine are spearheading this digital magazine revolution with these
superb new products that take our premium brands to another level.”
Ryan Marquis, PixelMags’ COO, added: “Working with Imagine has been a
pleasure, and they recognised early on that the PixelMags platform,
with its unbelievably realistic digital magazine reproductions, user-
friendly features such as bookmarking and search options, virtual
libraries, headline alerts, in app purchasing, social network sharing,
and endless interactive contents, was the product that millions of
mobile device users had been waiting for. We look forward to working
with them for many years to come.”
Imagine Publishing is one of the UK’s fastest-growing consumer
specialist publishers. Formed in May 2005, Imagine now publishes 20
regular magazines and 30 websites in the videogames, computing,
entertainment, motoring and photography markets. An Imagine magazine
is purchased every ten seconds.
Imagine Publishing
01202 586200
www.imagine-publishing.co.uk
www.pixel-mags.com
Damian Butt
Managing Director
