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The Wall Street Journal Takes a Walk Down the Runway in the Vogue Archive

davida — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:25:23 +0000

WSJ: Now Online: 120 Years of Vogue fashion. Using the Bondi Archive Platform, Vogue opens its archive to the public as a paid digital database that was under development for the past two years. When fashion-design instructor Nick Verreos assigns his students to learn about a Balenciaga sleeve, they trudge to the library at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles and leaf through bound volumes of 1940s Vogue magazines.

But the trudge to the library may soon be history. Condé Nast, the publisher of Vogue, has turned Vogue’s glossy pages into a digital database and is opening it to the public…Read more: WSJ.com

Condé Nast Launches Complete Vogue Archive on the Bondi Archive Platform

davida — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:49:53 +0000

Conde Nast announced today that it is using the Bondi Archive Platform to bring its entire Vogue Archive online, representing the complete and unabridged story of fashion. Now available digitally for the first time, this collection includes every page of every issue of American Vogue from 1892 to 2011. With more than 400,000 high-resolution pages, this is an unprecedented and essential creative resource for fashion, style, design, and marketing professionals and enthusiasts.

Precision search functionality delivers immediate access to the inspirational photography, illustrious writing, and iconic advertisements from the most influential fashion magazine of all time in their original context.

The Vogue Archive is accessed through your web browser, through an online viewer created for Vogue by Bondi Digital Publishing. Read more: Vogue.com

Playboy, Rolling Stone Archives Go HTML5, Become iPad-Friendly

davida — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:10:20 +0000

MediaPost: Both Playboy and Rolling Stone magazines are using a sophisticated HTML5 platform to bring their full back-issue archives to tablet and Web users. Avoiding the content restrictions and the limited access to subscriber data in Apple’s App Store, the Web-based approach allows the two brands to go direct to consumers with these offerings, yet retain an app-like functionality. Their technology provider Bondi Digital has now released the HTML5 platform for wider use and is developing its capabilities for a wider selection of Web browsers and devices.

HTML5 can give digital magazine archives the look and feel of a dedicated tablet app, but within a browser. Playboy magazine used the model early this summer to launch its full archives for iPad outside the reach of iTune’s nudity-averse censors. But more recently, Rolling Stone magazine also used the platform to put its entire historical run of 1,100 issues in a browser-based iPad-only format.

Bondi Enhances its Archive Publishing Platform With HTML5 Viewer For iPad — Playboy and Rolling Stone Are First to Adopt

davida — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:50:57 +0000

NEW YORK, NY, November 1st, 2011— Bondi Digital Publishing announced that Playboy and Rolling Stone are the first magazines to adopt its newly released HTML5 iPad viewer. Bondi developed the proprietary touch viewer so that iPad users can browse, search and read every issue of a complete archive directly through the IOS browser. Although browser based, users will find many of the familiar touch gestures of a native app, including pinch zoom and swipe to turn pages.

Subscribers can access each magazine’s current digital edition, plus their entire digital archive. Playboy went live on the iPad in late June with over 650 issues and charges $8 per month and $60 for a one year subscription. According to Jimmy Jellinek, Chief Content Officer at Playboy, “It’s already a resounding success for the company from a commercial standpoint”.

Rolling Stone debuted in August with over 1,100 issues. The content is only available to print subscribers, who can access it for free.

The Bondi Archive Platform is available to publishers as Software as a Service and integrates seamlessly into magazines websites. According to Murat Aktar, Co-Founder at Bondi, “Publishers are understandably excited about how touch enabled tablet devices are transforming the digital magazine reading experience. Bringing access to magazine archives on the iPad is a fantastic new opportunity for traditional magazines.

About Bondi Digital Publishing

For more information contact:

David Anthony
(212) 405-1655
david.anthony@bondidigital.com

Paul Strauss – SVP of Online Operations Gives Folio Webinar on Unlocking the Digital Revenue Potential of Playboy Archive

davida — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:59:06 +0000

As most publishers focus on the push to get new content digitized, too often, past issues are overlooked. Here, Playboy magazine shares how they turned old magazine content in gold by creating digital archives for readers to access on their iPad and desktop.

While pricing models may differ (Playboy charges for access to its archives, while others may choose to use the collection as a value add for subscribers), results are the same: a valuable new service for publishers, and a newley engaged audience.

To access this event CLICK HERE

Bondi and Playboy’s Launch of iPlayboy a Resounding Success

davida — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:20:01 +0000

CNN.Com: “We’ve already recouped our investment in the product itself in a single day,” Jimmy Jellinek, Chief Content Officer said. “It’s already a resounding success for the company from a commercial standpoint.”

Bondi Digital and Playboy Enterprises launched i.Playboy.com, a web subscription service that not only offers the current issue, but digital editions of every single issue of playboy ever published. Subscriptions are available for $8 per month, $60 per year and $100 for two years. Though the service has only been available for a day, Playboy says its undertaking has gotten an enthusiastic reception from the public, with thousands of subscriptions received so far.

Initially the service is iPad only. However, Bondi will be making the service available via desktop computers in the future. Read more: CNN.Com

Playboy Is Coming to the iPad

davida — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:20:41 +0000

Fox News: Playboy partners with Bondi Digital Publishing to bring entire archive to the iPad without going through Apple’s App Store.

Powered by the Bondi Archive Platform, the entire Playboy catalog – every issue, every page – will be made available for the iPad - photo spreads, centerfolds and all articles - magazine founder Hugh Hefner confirmed on Twitter.

“The thing that I think is so fascinating about tablets is that the user experience is very natural for turning pages and zooming in on them,” Bondi Co-Founder David Anthony told FoxNews.com. Read more: Fox News

Bondi Platform to Power Rolling Stone Online Archive

davida — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:38:07 +0000

CBS News (AP) For the first time Rolling Stone is inviting its readers on the long, strange trip though the magazine’s 43-year archive, putting complete digital replicas online along with the latest edition. But you’ll have to pay to see it all.

With a new site launching Monday, Rolling Stone will become one of the most prominent magazines to decide that adding a “pay wall” is the best way to make money on the Web.

The magazine’s revamped home page will remain mostly free. The kind of material that seems to work best on the Web – quick updates on who’s breaking up, slide shows of popular bands on tour – won’t cost readers anything.

PlayboyArchive.com Launch

staylor — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:51:50 +0000

Bondi Digital Publishing has launched www.playboyarchive.com.
View 53 classic issues of Playboy Magazine free using Bondi’s new web viewer.

Experience our new web viewer now!

Playboy and Bondi Digital Publishing Unveil www.playboyarchive.com Searchable Web Archive

bondidigital — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:44:40 +0000

LAS VEGAS, MICROSOFT MIX’09 SHOW March 18, 2009 — Playboy Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: PLA, PLAA) and Bondi Digital Publishing LLC, today went live with the public beta version of www.playboyarchive.com, a website where web viewers can instantly view a collection of digital back issues of Playboy Maga- zine from each of the years 1954 through 2007 without charge.

In a first for Playboy, readers and fans will be able to go online and instantly browse, search and read a compilation of perfect digital back issues of the magazine, many of which are highly sought-after collectors’ items. Each digital issue in the web archive will appear exactly as it did – including advertise- ments – in the original print edition of Playboy.

“Playboy has an incredibly rich history and an intensely loyal readership,” says Hugh M. Hefner, Playboy Founder, Editor-in-Chief and Chief Creative Officer. “This is the perfect opportunity to offer them something they have always wanted and also a great way to allow a whole new generation to easily explore the magazine.”

The system loads magazines quickly and users are finding it very easy to navigate.“We are impressed with the way Bondi’s digital publishing web platform presents the digital editions – it’s fast and easy to use. And the resolu- tion Bondi was able to get makes the reading experience enjoyable,” said Leopold Froehlich, Executive Editor.

To bring Playboy to life digitally, Bondi Digital Publishing – the software pioneers that developed the platform for The Complete New Yorker – scanned and re-typed each issue of Playboy. David Anthony, Co-Founder of Bondi noted: “Playboy has been an exceptionally influential part of America’s cultural land- scape for more than 50 years. We are thrilled to give people a whole new way to explore that history.” That sentiment was echoed by Murat Aktar, co-founder of Bondi Digital Pub- lishing who agreed and added:“It has been a five-year effort to get our system onto the Internet, so it is exciting to be getting such positive response from users on the new web platform.”

The web component of Bondi’s online digital publishing platform was created with the help of super-development house and Microsoft Partner of the Year award winner, Vertigo. The platform offers an end-to-end system for publishing and monetizing back archives of magazines on the web. It was launched and showcased during Microsoft’s Mix developers conference in Las Vegas today, and makes extensive use of Microsoft’s rich media technology: Silverlight.

About Playboy

Playboy is one of the most recognized and popular consumer brands in the world. Playboy Enterprises, Inc. is a media and lifestyle company that markets the brand through a wide range of media properties and licensing initiatives. The company publishes Playboy magazine in the United States and abroad and creates content for distribution via television networks, websites, mobile platforms, DVD and radio. Through licensing agreements, the Playboy brand appears in more than 150 countries on a wide range of consumer products, entertainment locations and retail stores.

About Bondi Digital Publishing

Bondi Digital Publishing has extensive experience helping magazine publish- ers create commercial opportunities from their print archives. Bondi has devel- oped both online and offline software platforms for organizing and viewing vast collections of magazines. Individual issues are presented on our system as exact digital replicas of the print release with all of the rich formatting intact. In addition to being a familiar experience to readers, this allows magazines to release back issues under the original copyright.

Founded in 2004, Bondi set the standard for user-friendly, searchable digital magazine archives when The New Yorker selected the company to develop the software platform behind the Complete New Yorker, an eight DVD-ROM set containing almost 500,000 print pages. In 2007, Bondi published digital archives of the first 40 years of Rolling Stone magazine and it began releasing the complete run of Playboy magazine.

For more information contact:

Bondi
David Anthony
(212) 675-7300
david.anthony@bondidigital.com

Playboy
Phil DiIanni
(212) 261-5051
pdiianni@playboy.com