Online digital editions of many of the fanzines that most interest us there are many ones or blog way or nominal own site.
But their editions as digital mobile application (release apps) are still expected. We find apps of the classic and more conventional magazines on design, architecture and music (also on art, fashion, trends, travel & tourism, gastronomy & food, interior design, decorating, literature, even gardening): this kind of publishing whose sponsors and firms had already been developed to design and program their own apps.
Fanzines, comiczines, graphzines have been having an increasing presence on the web –adding the webzines, without precedent or original editions on paper. Photozines may be the most commonly serve as digital editions.
Preston is my Paris, a distinctive photozine that Adam Murray and Robert Parkirson launched in July 2oo9, has an app for iPhone/iPad. Its paper edition (you can see here an example for those who don´t know__http://vimeo.com/8852449) publishes the photos and images from different authors around the city and society of Preston.
Its web edition__ http://prestonismyparis.blogspot.com, provides information on events, photos, images and contents not included in its paper original edition -addition to the wellknown facility of instant communication and interaction with the remote user.
The app for the i~™[] Preston is my Paris [PPP app] adds to previous editions the exact location of the photos, images and contents on the map of Preston, via Google Maps -of course.
On these technological advantages for display and diffusions of ~zines i was having a close discussion few days ago with a devoted friend of the paper (and of the "authenticity", as he says.) Do not consider myself a fanatic of technology, not even a half follower of the progress of the same ... Turn a deaf ear to the facilities that digital editions offer us, it seems to me, at least, very little ecological, very little sustainable and all the green and environmental words and attributes I can add to the case of using paper editions (thousands, massive) of publications that we all have at hand. Despite the trite were the theme of sustainable development, we know it… And however much we trust recycling.
Rather I am a fanatic of the paper. Fanaticism which needs further (1) time for contemplation and (2) decision (what I´ll take from what I´m seeing, what one is more interesting, I don´t understand a single ideogram Korean but what a nice layout…), and often (3) money… These three conditions for getting paper editions are not always found in the same time and same place.
To have digital editions of the vast world of ~zines makes life easier for me, and then I can browse and I can look and look and look.
The following __ A network app for fanatics of the ~zines!
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