Digital magazines are awesome! We all know that. Especially when they are interactive! That was one of the main goals of Joomag, taking publications to a completely new level in digital publishing, by providing all necessary tools and services, which could be used by everyone.

Our magazines are currently available across various platforms, including PC, Mac, iPad and Android devices, covering majority of digital consumers. But, despite the fact that interactive magazines are cool and print market is drastically shrinking year over year, people still need hard copies. We have to admit that they are still the most user-friendly medium ever created for reading.

Today we’re rolling out double-page editing functionality in our Online Editor. That means no more hassle with placing images on a spread and more freedom in your layout decisions. You may even put a video in the center of the magazine!

Great news for all those publishers who are willing to put music players right in their magazines. Today we’re unveiling this extremely useful feature, which could be found in the toolbox of our online editor.

You may also see how it works here.

It has passed a while since our last blogpost, but here were are with a new wave of exiting features and with the Christmas spirit.

In upcoming days we’ll be launching your long-awaited features to make your Christmas publications even more attractive and engaging even more readers. Today we’ll start with the Rating system, which you may have already noticed in some of our magazines or maybe even had a luck to test it out.

Publishers can benefit from the Rating system by collecting even more information from readers about specific product, overall magazine experience or whatever they like, meanwhile readers can give ratings to all those subjects and help publishers make their future issues even better.

Like the rest of our features, this one is also easy to deploy and use. In our online editor you’ll find a new tool for that and will be able to customize the scale and the appearance of the rating.

Happy Holidays!

Last week we promised to announce some major features coming up. And here you go! We are really proud to announce our native iPad application and magazine back-issues.

Before announcing some major upgrades in upcoming week, we decided to give a short break and add a new theme for you to enjoy!

Stay Tuned!

Our data center in Dallas, where our servers are located, suffered a major power outage today lasting approximately six hours. An accidental power failure affected both our primary and backup systems, taking Joomag offline.

We sincerely apologize for any problems this downtime has caused. This is the first time we have had power outage like this in the 2 years that we have been online. We will be doing everything in our power to prevent this from happening in the future.

As you already noticed we are constantly improving our magazine viewer based on your valuable feedback to make it more user friendly. Recently we introduced two improvements: expand button and flip-anywhere feature. From now on, when embedding magazine with small dimensions or sharing it on Facebook, you will see an expand button which will take you to the fullscreen mode. Moreover, pages can be flipped by clicking free areas on the left and on the right of the magazine as illustrated in the picture below.

That’s all for now, expect major upgrades soon!

And yes, feel free to share your thoughts with us!

We are rolling out another great feature – printing of pages. From now on, if you see a print icon on the top toolbar, you will be able to print any page of the magazine. This is especially useful for printing out food recipes, puzzle games and favorite articles.

Note for publishers: for enabling printing, select the “Allow printing” checkbox in the magazine settings page.

We have recently launched the new release of our platform, which affects both the magazine viewer and the online editor. Some of the most notable features are enhanced zooming, in-magazine direct downloading and background sounds.

With the enhanced zooming you will no longer have problems with reading small sized texts and viewing double-page spread content. You will be able to adjust the zooming level and flip pages more easily now.