The world of online magazines is always richer. On the site issu.com you can find, browse and read lots of magazines of various kinds, some of which are also printed and distributed, while others are only available online. Completely free, the most interesting are dedicated to design, fashion and photography. Now that we begin to depopulate as electronic means of reading the touch screen (see the iPad, and so on Kindle), the online magazine starts to take that weight and sometimes quell'autorevolezza which until now was virtually closed to the great public. In fact, many publishers of printed media are starting to think of their magazines as available completely online. If this is so for the newspaper, perhaps it will be for the magazine. Too bad because some of the glossy magazines is beautiful because you can take everywhere and the need to recharge it. But the advantage is the amount of electronics, the choice, the economy and a bit 'of ecology (energy consumption per unit but load the savings in paper, ink, transport ... etc).
And here we all become digital publishers! As blogs have made anyone a writer or columnist, the digital magazine publishing customs clearance. It may be that the quality decreases, as many are afraid of (especially the "holders" of Culture), but to read certain magazines and browse online photo and see the images they publish, it is to breathe a sigh of joyful relief. So much so that, speaking of the press, in Italy one of the few photo magazines that can be called like that is ZOOM. Current and extremely beautiful, not only in content but also in setting graphics. The others often seem a picture made by or for beginners. If it were not for the technical data on various equipment, sometimes one wonders if deep down they are not sponsored by any manufacturer. But however well be editorial pluralism. It will be up to us to choose and discern. Even as online journals and magazines BLUR FOTOBLUR are proof that quality exists without necessarily get behind publishing houses "known" or belong to the printed word. In fact, here you have the opportunity to see the work very interesting, exciting and original. Even trivial at times, but this is not just prerogative of online journals. A shut
This ode to the magazine online quote a recent event: an authoritative title and publisher Einaudi has published as the book of Portuguese writer José Saramago because openly against the current government. Ode
then virtual universe populated by magazines, blogs and writings free of any logic of "market" and power. © 2010 Elena Fantini
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