![]() According to Robert Nelson, president of the digital group at Baker & Taylor, a Mac version of Blio “is on the roadmap for 2011,” but there is no target date for when the reader will be available for the Mac. Blio is not available for the Mac as yet. The Blio e-reader is a free multiplatform, multidevice application that viewers can use to read full-color e-books and multimedia-enhanced content on a wide variety of devices. Blio features enhanced reading capabilities such as reflow, slideshows, video, Web content, and more.īlio currently runs on the Windows platform only, and will expand to mobile platforms such as Google Android and Microsoft Silverlight. QuarkXPress 9 will also let designers create e-books for theīlio e-reader to sell through the Blio online bookstore via a partnership with While the pricing scheme for App Studio for the new version is still being finalized, Quark expects it to be in line with the per-issue pricing that it set forĪpp Studio for Quark Publishing System, which starts at $349 for publishing a single issue, and decreases depending on the number of issues purchased. Apple’s App Store is already offering the App Studio for users of the enterprise-level Quark Publishing System (QPS). Users of the service will be able to migrate to QuarkXPress 9 for their iPad publishing projects once App Studio for QuarkXPress is released. Until then, Quark is offering its iPad Publishing Service for QuarkXPress, in which Quark will configure a starter iPad app with a customer’s logos and colors and enable the enrichment of QuarkXPress content to be published to that app. While the App Studio is officially part of Quark 9 at launch, it will not ship with the software immediately, but will be available as a free add-on within 90 days after the product ships. ![]() The advantage of App Studio, says the company, is that designers can control the look and feel of the editorial product without having to invest in technical development expertise.Īpp Studio offers interactive features such as video/audio players, slideshows, scrollable regions, Web overlays, pop-up windows, buttons, hyperlinks, and more. This feature lets nontechnical designers publish to the iPad directly from QuarkXPress. One far-reaching innovation for QuarkXPress 9 is App Studio for QuarkXPress, ![]() We certainly expect Quark’s new digital publishing solutions such as App Studio and Blio to be popular within commercial publishing, but our primary focus is and will continue to be our existing customers in all market sectors, as well as new designers.” App Studio The need for dynamic publishing in the commercial publishing sector is bringing Quark strongly back into this sector. “Quark’s dynamic-publishing solutions are gaining significant traction in the manufacturing, financial services, and life sciences industries, as well as in the government sector,” said Gavin Drake, Quark’s vice president of marketing. “However, commercial publishing companies are increasingly seeing the benefits of dynamic publishing in their businesses–especially as the number of media and devices that they have to publish to increases.
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