Make Digital Publishing Beautiful with Issuu.com (linkto:http://issuu.com/)

By Lindsay Grubb

Name: issuu.com (linkto:http://issuu.com/)

Pitch: Issuu.com (linkto:http://issuu.com/) is the leading digital publishing platform delivering exceptional reading experiences of magazines, books, catalogues, reports, and more.

Why we like it: In just a few seconds users can create beautiful digital editions simply by uploading their publications. Issuu’s mission is to empower individuals, companies, and institutions to publish their documents across all digital platforms. You can also download many magazines for free off this site in PDF format to read later.

I think I’m in love. After seeing this website and browsing through all it had to offer – I scrambled to email my best girlfriend about it. My mind is alive with possibilities.

Issuu.com (linkto:http://issuu.com/) is a beautiful glossy website – just like many of the magazines uploaded to its servers. There is something exciting about looking at hundreds of magazines you’ve never seen or heard of before that look really interesting and knowing you can access the at your fingertips.

Increadibly registration and some downloads are free – you can download to your laptop, pc or even your mobile phone. Issuu.com was voted one of the top 50 websites by Time.com for 2009 and with good reason. You are easily able to subscribe to those publications which require a subscription.

Issuu allows you to download the magazines in .pdf format, and the download process is super quick and efficient.

The site itself has a clean neat structure – everything is easy to use and understand. In your library you have how to videos for using the site, and uploading documents to the site is also a simple matter. It opens up so many opportunities for self publishing online, first time authors can upload their books in minutes and have them available for readers immediately. Upload formats accepted by ISSUU include MS Word, MS Power Point and PDFs.

Registration Options

There are two options available – free – which will have adverts and PRO which is advert free and costs just $19 per month (approximately R 145.16 per month) which I think is a fantastic price.

Main benefits of Issuu PRO:

Company Newsstand

No advertising in the viewer sidebar

All of Issuu’s features. No need to buy extra modules.

Upload as many publications as you like.

Secure hosting and backup at Amazon.

Global content delivery network for fastest delivery anywhere in the world.

Worldwide use and distribution. Main Features of Issuu PRO:

Customize the viewer with logo, icons, colours, animations

Remove the advertising sidebar on embedded and standalone publications

Newsstand to display and monetize your publications

My Library to organize and distribute your content

Bulk upload for uploading hundreds of publications

Auto-embedding to automatically embed latest edition

Auto-publishing with Smart Look

Increase your subscriber base with worldwide reach

Copyright protection: Stay in control of your content

Privacy: You decide who reads your publications

Detailed statistics and reporting about your readers behaviour

Powerful Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and high Google ranking

Active links to websites and advertisers (hotspots)

Add music sound tracks or voice over for presentations

API access for developers, resellers and technology integrators and much more... * Fair usage: Over 1 million readers per month or 15GB storage is subject to price negotiation. Please contact us Issuu.com is trusted by The World Bank, Random House, MTV, Guardian Books, Cambridge University Press and Routledge amongst others.