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danie10@squeet.me
Danie

Casey Newton’s Platformer is leaving Substack for Non-Profit Open-Source Ghost Publishing Platform

A web dashboard showing total members count, paid members, free members, with a live graph showing the progression of paid memebrs. Other stats show engagement percentage over 30 days, newsletters subscribers total, etc.
Ghost is a powerful app for professional publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members.

Publishers can deliver posts by email newsletter to their audience, so they’ll be in the loop whenever something new goes live. They can segment their audience and send multiple different newsletters based on preference. In others words you can have topics handled separately from each other for better focus.

Ghost makes it easy, with native signup forms that turn anonymous views into logged-in members. It allows people to sign up for free, or purchase a paid subscription to support a publisher’s work across monthly and yearly premium tiers.

Ghost’s main service is a paid service, this is how they keep the service sustainable and keep innovating the product. Many publishers also do not want to self-host as this also costs some money (hosting, fast CDN service unless you use Cloudflare, e-mail management, backups, updates) and some additional effort by the person self-hosting. I’m guessing too why they don’t offer free publishing is because then they follow the “Google” route of including intrusive adverts and 3rd party tracking (“free” has to be paid for by someone!).

However, you can self-host Ghost on your own server, computer, or Raspberry Pi to have full control over your production environment.

Ghost uses Strip as the payment partner for reader subscriptions so you’ll need to be sure you can access/withdraw funds from there if you want paying readers.

Ghost has provision for a wide array on integrations with services such as Zapier, Stripe, Discord, Slack, YouTube, X, PayPal, Mailchimp, Disqus, Google Cloud, LiveChat, Giphy, Twitch, SurveyMonkey, Amazon S3, Buffer, and many more.

See https://ghost.org/
#Blog, #opensource, #publishing, #technology

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danie10@squeet.me
Danie

Open-Source Desktop Publishing App Scribus Gets Huge Update

Scribus desktop publication application window showing a newspaper like layout of multiple columns with a larger centre placeholder for a large graphic. A popup window in the centre shows an About window with the Scribus title and version 1.6.0.
When it comes to free, open-source desktop publishing (DTP) there’s little as capable, as fully-featured, or as widely used in professional settings as Scribus.

Now a brand new stable release of this powerful page-making tool is available, the first since 2019.

Scribus 1.6.0 ships with “thousands of enhancements and fixes across all areas of the program”, with its development team noting it’s more featured, faster, and more stable than all versions prior.

Used to create everything from newsletters to books, Scribus provides scores of features commonly found in paid-for, proprietary DTP software, allowing users to design and create complex layouts, manipulate text, insert images, manage colours, and export documents for free.

Interestingly, Scribus is now around 23 years old, so it is a solidly mature product. Yet it can work on macOS Apple Silicon and also has a distro-independent AppImage installation available. It’s the perfect tool to design once and use across all desktop OS’s.

Scribus has many unexpected touches, such as powerful vector drawing tools, support for a huge number of file types via import/export filters, emulation of colour blindness or the rendering of markup languages like LaTeX or Lilypond inside Scribus.

The Scribus file format is XML-based and open. Unlike proprietary binary file formats, even damaged documents can be recovered with a simple text editor – sometimes a challenging problem with other page layout programs.

Reliable PDF creation is the key to a successful print run at a commercial printing house, and it has been a pillar of Scribus development since the early days of its development. Scribus was the first DTP program in the world that supported the demanding PDF/X-3 specification. Scribus also offers a wide range of options with respect to PDF export.

See https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/01/scribus-desktop-publishing-software-major-update
#Blog, #DTP, #opensource, #publishing, #technology

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franni@diaspora.glasswings.com
franni

Speaking of The End, 'American literati recoiled in howls of articulate indignation Monday following news that multinational mass media conglomerate Paramount Global has agreed to sell venerable publishing house Simon & Schuster to KKR, described by one critic as "possibly the most vile example of a private equity firm that acquires, eviscerates, and kills off companies for profit."'

(How much love do I have for** "howls of articulate indignation"**? I wrote the guy to thank him for it. Perfection.)

#publishing #books

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floriancramer@pod.thing.org
Florian Cramer

Bebe Books at PrintRoom, Rotterdam

Dec. 10th, 2022

with:

  • Tuyen Le and Noam Youngrak Son presenting Toilet Zine
  • Yin Yin Wong presenting From Publication Maker To Maker of Publics To Public Asian Maker
  • Amy Suo Wu presenting Serenity Department
  • Cheng-Hsu Chung presenting Bebe’s 2023 Calendar
  • Karin de Jong presenting About series #12: The Ritual by Pernilla Ellens
  • cameos by Clementine, Carmen, Antye, Rachel, Tim, Clara, Maike, Angeliki

(silent video made from 9916 high-speed still photographs)

https://vimeo.com/779899334

#zines #queer #gay #Asian #fashion #printmaking #diy #artistsbooks #publishing

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