From glossy magazines to iPads: Moving Media+ to talk about Mag+ platform for tablets

Award-winning Mag+ will be speaking at Sojournposse Multimedia event "Whatever is to become of books?" at University College London on 17th September.

Sam Syed is Creative Director of Bonnier Technology Group. He is an art director with a strong specialisation in image driven design. Originally trained in journalism and TV documentary at the University of Westminster, he switched to print, working for big British publishers Emap, Haymarket, Redwood, Future and Dennis publishing. Sam then moved to New York with the British invasion men’s magazines Maxim and Stuff. As creative director of Bonnier Corporation’s R&D department, he played an important role in the development of the Mag+ digital publishing platform. Sam is currently creative director of Bonnier Technology Group, which includes the brands Popular Science, Popular Photography, American Photo and Sound+Vision. http://samsyed.com

Mag+ is a flexible platform for publishing creative content on touch screen tablets. It was premiered on the first iPads in April 2010 with the award winning Popular Science+. On 7 September 2011, British Journal of Photography launched its first iPad issue using Mag+. Mag+ supports dozens of titles in the Apple Newsstand and now has titles on the Samsung Galaxy Tab, too. ‘One push’ takes tablet magazines to Google Android and Apple iOS. With its streamlined production system, powerful backend and feature-rich app framework, Mag+ provides an ideal solution for magazine, book publishers, catalogue marketers and design agencies by bringing beautiful, immersive content to the millions using digital devices. Built by the R&D task force of global publishing powerhouse Bonnier Magazine Group, Mag+ was spun out as an independent company, Moving Media+, in 2011.

Mag+ for designers: Mag+’s simple InDesign-based workflow puts full creative control in the hands of the designers, not the tech guys. Video, HTML5 elements and other interactive features are added directly in InDesign. It is the only system that offers instant fully functional layout review on the iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab, which lets designers try new things and see immediately what the user experience will be. Mag+ offers cost effective solution for publishing on tablets, where publishers only start to pay when published and can choose a monthly subscription or per-issue model. www.magplus.com. Twitter @magplus.

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