Comments As many of you already know, Adobe announced the immediate availability of the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, Single Edition:
“The immediate availabilty of the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, Single Edition, an affordable and flexible end-to-end workflow for designers to publish a single issue application for sale or distribution through the Apple App Store. At just US$395 per application, Single Edition allows freelance designers and small design firms to publish an Apple iPad application created with Adobe InDesign® CS5.5 software – leveraging their existing skills and workflows without needing to write code. Single Edition will be available for purchase on Adobe.com in North America on November 10, and in many other countries in early 2012.”
I’d like to add my own recommendation for an excellent series of tutorials by Colin Fleming. In his 4 hour 45 minute training series: Digital Publishing Suite Workshop, (produced by video2brain for $39.00 USD), Colin walks through the digital publishing workflow including project planning, interactivity and publishing. It saved me hours of time trying to figure out the most efficient way to create my own portfolio sample!
What I find more interesting is the polic/pricing structure change Adobe recently announced:
http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2011/11/adobe-creative-cloud-and-adobe-creative-suite-new-choices-for-customers.html?PID=2159997
What are your thoughts on that and how it will impact the enthusiast/hobbyist? What about corporate owners that need layers of approval before buying any software (makes the subscription model rather difficult to sell I would think)? Lots of downsides but not many upsides from my perspective – would be interested in hearing your thoughts on this.