Create digital magazines to offer a dynamic reading experience.
Issuu's digital magazine creator makes it easy for publishers, marketers, and everyone else in between to create an online magazine that stands out. Our intuitive platform empowers you to create engaging and professional-quality digital magazines in just a few clicks. Once you're done, you can easily monetize your digital magazine with Digital Sales and share it with your audience on any channel using Social Posts.
What is a Digital Magazine?
It might sound obvious that a digital magazine is a magazine that is published digitally. But that’s just the beginning of the story.
What’s really exciting about digital magazines is that they can include links, embedded videos, and other engaging digital content for a truly immersive and connected reading experience. It’s a platform that combines the best of digital and print media in one user-friendly package.
You might choose to publish your digital magazine as an alternative to your print magazine or you can create an online magazine that's digital native.
Possibly the biggest advantage of digital magazines is that you can distribute your online magazine through digital channels, giving you a much wider distribution and the opportunity to sell your publications to a wider audience. They’re also much more affordable to produce and can deliver a higher ROI than print magazines.
How to Create an Digital Magazine:
Select the document you want to convert into a digital magazine. You can import files from your desktop, from integrated cloud storage providers like Dropbox and Google Drive, or use templates from InDesign and Canva to create your content from scratch.
Upload your file into our digital magazine creator and instantly convert it into an online magazine with flippable pages and interactive features. Issuu accepts a wide range of file types, including PDF, .doc, .docx, and .ppt.
Take it to the next level with videos that can auto-play and other special features like shoppable links; you can even embed your digital magazine on your website.
Publish and distribute your magazine on Issuu and generate revenue by selling your magazine using our Digital Sales feature with zero commission fees.
Video
A multimedia reading and viewing experience
With video features, our eMagazine maker lets you enhance your text with video content to turn a digital magazine into an immersive multimedia experience. Embed the videos directly onto your magazine pages for your readers to watch with a press of the play button.
Digital Sales
Revenue jumps right off the page
The digital sales feature gives you the power to sell your digital magazine just like you would a print issue. The important difference being that digital publications are much easier to scale and bring to a wider audience than print ones.
Embed
Your digital magazine, front and center on your site
Want the same flipbook magazine experience on your site? Issuu’s embed feature makes it easy to embed your magazine on your website. With this feature, tapping into leads and revenue is as easy as copy/pasting some code.
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Digital Magazine: Frequently Asked Questions
Digital magazines work like a traditional magazine with flippable pages, but on a computer, phone, or tablet instead of on paper. The digital format comes with some exciting advantages over print. You can embed content, link directly to advertisers’ pages, and share your content anywhere with the click of a button.
You can also take your digital magazine and embed it directly onto your website - perfect for those who already have a traditional magazine or those who want their digital magazines to live on their properties.
With Issuu, selling digital magazines is easy! Use our premium Digital Sales feature to sell single issues or subscriptions to your magazine. You decide how much content you want to display for free (if any).
Experts strongly recommend the “freemium” model for those who are new to digital publishing. This means starting off free, and when a fanbase is established, setting up previews that entice a purchase. With Issuu you can choose how much of each magazine you want to display for free or which issues you'd rather be paid vs free. The customization options are endless with our Digital Sales feature.
To design your digital magazine, you can download one of our free templates or use your favorite creation tools like InDesign and take advantage of our InDesign extension.
When designing a digital magazine, you want the right balance of written content and visual content; with Issuu’s magazine creator, you can also add video content and embedded links.
Like a traditional magazine, digital magazines make money by selling ad space within the pages and by selling issues and subscriptions. With Issuu, you're able to make money online with your digital magazine.
But subscriptions and ads are just the beginning. You can also drive revenue with affiliate links and shoppable links within your magazine. Issuu’s eMagazine maker does more than digitize your magazine; we digitalize the entire publishing business model!
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