Life In 19x19

John Fairbairn wrote:

... who provides the content and how it will be ensured that they keep going smoothly month after month, year after year.

I think this point raised by JF bears a lot of thought. It isn't easy to solve but it is easy to be bullish and assume it will solve itself with confidence. I doubt that bullish confidence is enough.

Have you thought about place for people to submit stories / reports, maybe from their local communities / tournaments? I think it would be amazing to sometimes read about local go stuff from around the world, might it be a brazil local tournament or the biggest german go club. Anyway I wish you good luck with it, I would definitly try it out.

Ps: Have you looked at the Al Jazeera magazine? I think it won some prizes on its design, might be a inspiration if it is not yet decided unes.apple.com/us/app/aje-magazine/id551599653?mt=8

Boidhre wrote:May I ask why MOBI and EPUB? I found diagrams in .mobi to be unpleasant to use due to limitations in the device's ability to render sharp curved lines on the Kindle and the diagrams not being scaled properly by the software (due to the format not allowing for vector images I believe, but could be wrong) on larger formats like the iPad and other tablets. The formats work well for text but little else really, chess books on Kindle suffer from similar issues with diagrams being a bit fuzzy and lacking contrast.

Simply because those are the most common formats, and PDF often doesn't scale well with different form factors. PDF will be available as well if you want it. As for supporting something like SmartGo Books, it is possible but has not been decided at this point.

quietimes wrote:I may be on an island on this comment. Please have some meat for the 25k-10k player. Smaller articles on study, concepts. Small pieces. Maybe commentary on a similarly ranked game. One of my biggest turn off's on literature is that it seems to focus on power reports, tournaments that I will never see and players I do not know or can relate to. Because of this ("never start a sentence with because")I end up enjoying the ad's, calendar of events and "go spotting" more than anything.

Thank you, certainly material for weaker players will be included.^^

PDF/A is perfect.