Not sure if something similar exists.
Despite all the online alternatives offered to us, a lot of us still read magazines.
The idea for a app to collect, store and bookmark your favourite articles are as follows:
- You scan the barcode of the magazine.
- You enter the page number and select the topic you would like to file it under from a pre-populated dropdown box e.g., photography.
- The selected pages gets added to an online storage/sorting cloud for all your favourite magazine articles.
- Categorization, sharing, posting to other social sites and all the rest be done via either a website or a mobile app.
You will need the buy-in from major publishing houses to make it viable but I am sure they can market it as a "transitional product" to move their magazine customers online given the surety that magazines as we know it are edging towards extinction.
..so a bit like read-it-later with barcodes for paper magazines?
ReplyDeleteYes, sort of.
ReplyDeleteIt will probably need to be integrated with something similar to Zinio with the added functionality of the user being able to add labels of interest to organise all his articles.