Interactive indesign doc - magazine

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May 5, 2019
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I am creating an interactive magazine - and I want to publish it for people to buy. With the publish online- it works beautifully but I worry that since it's a free service that they might take away the service or delete my magazine. Are there options to publish and monetize these documents online as an interactive pdf - I've looked for a year now and I am burnt out. No one uses flash anymore- so uploading it to my server as an html/swf is pointless. All of the other options do not work well--
I am doing a print copy of the magazine and as an added bonus I am giving an interactive copy that you go through and pages react etc.

Kinda disappointed that it's not easier than this. The publish online does give you an option to embed the code- and that works-- as does sharing the link- but if someone pays for this and it doesn't work-- I'm certain they will be ticked.

If you recommend the publish online option- is it possible to monetize simply by using the "hide sharing (which hides the url on the url bar) and share that link with a click in their cart (I can disable right click)
What did JK Rowling use to do her interactive epub3? There has to be an option out there... I see authors / magazines using it but-- trying to find information has been a needle in a hay stack.

Please advise.

Jill

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Derek Cross

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In5 now have a training site called in5 Academy, where they have detailed video tutorials on how to create web apps and how to optimise and upload them to the Mac store, or how to by pass it: https://academy.ajarproductions.com/

jills1946079Author

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I'm looking at the In5 site and I like this. Nothing looks hard on here- I'll email them and tell them what I want to do and see if they agree that it will work-- go for the pro plan to test it out and hopefully I can do it that way. When I finish it- I'll post a link here so you guys can play with it. In5 looks like the best option- so thank you guys so much. I've been looking for a long time and I think this might work.

JonathanArias

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like others said IN5 is great. you will however need to host things yourself. IN5 will not host them for you.

BobLevine

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But you can create apps with it that can be distributed via app stores.

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Legend

If you’re looking for more on how Rowling‘s ebooks were made, these people did it: https://www.javelingroup.com/about/press_releases/javelin_group_leads_website_build_for_new_pottermore_ebooks_japanese_s…

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Interactive PDF has been pretty much killed because only Adobe's PDF viewers on Windows and Mac handle it. Not even Adobe's viewers on phones and tablets do.

Derek Cross

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Multimedia interactive PDFs do not work on many devices because they depended on Flash

jills1946079Author

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Agree- Flash had its day and even during that time it was touchy. I was using photoshop and dreamweaver in 2001/2? I think it was still in BETA. I remember them telling us FLASH was the future. ((yeah right))

I returned to college and studied design but adobe has been with me since the early 2000s. I like the idea of an APP- I've never created one, but I am open to playing. It sounds so silly to want interactivity- but in this particular magazine it really makes it look sharp. I've wanted to do it since Martha Stewart did her interactive mag in like 2009-- I saw that and I was like, "Oh, I need to do that..." The problem is-- the more bells and whistles you use-- the more trouble you have.