Back in 2008, HP Labs released MagCloud, a print on demand service intended to allow anybody distribute a magazine with no much in way of charge, resources, or risk.

It's releasing some new features which allow publishers utilize MagCloud for more determined formation and allocate their works in both paper and iPad form. MagCloud is aimed at unpaid and small click kinds, plus big brands for example LIFE magazine which desire to create particular issues or bring old ones back into print. It does for magazines what Lulu does for books make it possible to print and sell gorgeous color publications in amounts as tiny as one copy.

Publishers upload their magazines in PDF form when somebody orders an issue, HP has one of a number of sovereign completion centers print it using a high speed HP Indigo printer, then dispatch it to customer.

MagCloud only does magazines in one size: 8.25-by-10.75-inches. And pending currently, they could only contain equal to 64 pages. But now limit has been hit method, way equal to 384 ideal bound pages. Publications can now be sold globally. And HP is as well launching an iPad app that will allow MagCloud publishers allocate iPad versions of their publications. The iPad version is optional, and for now there's no mechanism for publisher to accuse for it, so all existing magazines will be free sample HP told it'll add e-commerce features finally.