MagCloud
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MagCloud is a vanity press
service of Hewlett-Packard
which offers on demand sale of digital editions and single issue printing of magazines on demand for customers. Magazines are printed in full color via HP's indigo printers on high quality standard sized 8.5 x 11 inch paper at a cost of US $0.20 per page. Authors set the cost for the publication and receive profits from the MagCloud service periodically. In addition introduction to the market by new, small publications, the service is used by existing magazines and publications with a more traditional distribution method to make back issues available for sale.
Vanity press
A vanity press or vanity publisher is a term describing a publishing house that publishes books at the author's expense. Publisher Johnathon Clifford claims to have coined the term in 1959. However, the term appears in mainstream U.S...
service of Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...
which offers on demand sale of digital editions and single issue printing of magazines on demand for customers. Magazines are printed in full color via HP's indigo printers on high quality standard sized 8.5 x 11 inch paper at a cost of US $0.20 per page. Authors set the cost for the publication and receive profits from the MagCloud service periodically. In addition introduction to the market by new, small publications, the service is used by existing magazines and publications with a more traditional distribution method to make back issues available for sale.