If you haven’t heard, Issuu is a new site/app that is making flip magazine productions must easier than before. The site has 1000s of magazines listed already, and all are free.
We don’t do a lot of reviews for sites like this, but after using Issuu ourselves for Every Niter, we found it’s so easy and nice to use, I just had to write a review of it.
The site doesn’t (as of 10/3/14) put ads in your magazines or ad over lays. You can upload your pdf of your magazine in minutes, and then, make it public. I’m surprised by how easy, fast, it is.
If you are looking for a very quick and easy to turn your magazine into a flip magazine, this is it.
You can also use their site as a market place. You can get more readers just by being part of their site, and publishing your magazine. You can bring your publication to readers, quick, easy, and free through their service.
They do have 2 plans, 29$ per month and 39$ per month. You have to use these to get your stats, and for SEO and other features. It is a bit steep, but you can go month by month, and you don’t have to use these options to publish your magazine.
I believe Issuu could be the next “big” thing in magazine publishing. Not only do they basically turn your magazine into an app, people can search for you there. So new business is completely possible from using this site.
The following are some literary magazines using Issuu:
This is an interesting issue. The layout is something different from what you see in many literary magazines. It’s worth a look for sure.
The Madison Review is always doing interesting stuff, this issue a excellent, complete with Crossword.
They recently published a listing with EWR, and I like this issue. Take a look, it’s colorful, full of good poetry and artwork. It is, I believe, their first issue.
A lot of good poetry and short stories in this issue. It’s their newest I believe.
This is a very nice issue from 2014. Good poetry, good stories, nice layout.
We couldn’t leave out at least one science fiction magazine on this list. Analog is one of the best of course, and it’s a treat to read some of their works online like this.
We couldn’t leave out our magazine either! You can read some of our issues on Issuu as well.
You can take a look at the rest of these, all are pretty good reading.
http://issuu.com/sblaam/docs/sblaam_1
http://issuu.com/hothouse/docs/hothouse2014
http://issuu.com/fiction_fix/docs/ff16b
http://issuu.com/alex1alex/docs/asimovsscifi201206_84079fe466710f
http://issuu.com/nazarets/docs/other
http://issuu.com/alex1alex/docs/analog_science_fiction_and_fact_201_c1833067b90fd2
http://issuu.com/yespoetry/docs/december
http://issuu.com/sixfold/docs/sixfoldpofall13
Overall, it has good free features, does what many want, for free, and you have a couple of paid options.
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