With a new Web service called MagCloud, Hewlett-Packard hopes to make it easier and cheaper to crank out a magazine than running photocopies at the local copy shop.
Charging
20 cents a page, paid only when a customer orders a copy, H.P. dreams
of turning MagCloud into vanity publishing’s equivalent of YouTube.
The company, a leading maker of computers and printers, envisions
people using their PCs to develop quick magazines commemorating their
daughter’s volleyball season or chronicling the intricacies of the
Arizona cactus business.
As newspapers die, self-publishing gets easier
Hewlitt-Packard is opening up the zine world.