The fact of the matter is, all you describe surferfromuk is the Web and Web authoring tools. You don't need any technical know-how to publish yourself on the web these days. That's what CMSes are for.
Of course you need technical know how. 99% of people don't know what a CMS is, a domain, html, dns, any of that stuff - they're currently excluded from publishing content which maybe why 80% of the internet is garbage
A magazine "framework" like you describe wouldn't be any simpler than the many simple content management systems.
Of course it would. It would be like an uber-simple version of Apples Pages. You type text, drop media into it, shape your layout, click 'publish'
The only thing would be visibility. But guess what, the print media isn't dying because of lack of visibility or the paper it's printed on. The Web is just a better medium for information that Magazines are, no matter how much you like them.
Convenience, zero cost, always on availability and near instantaneous real-time distribution is what is killing the printed media NOT the content or the means in which is it displayed, published or presented
Magazines have one fatal flaw, they need to be edited and published. This takes time. The Web on the other hand, with a good dynamic (HTML hasn't been static since about 1996) frameworks can get information up in minutes without having to re-edit your whole site, publish it, and upload it to some "virtual newstand".
They also have credible professional content makers who spend a lot of time and effort ( i.e money) making worthy content. That's practically invisible on the net. It's geek-paradise - content created by a ruling technocracy on behalf of people whose knowledge base lies in the real world
Basically, Apple could just sell you a bunch of web bookmarks, and you'd be better off than magazines in e-book format.
No, maybe i'm not explaining myself well. A living magazine with dynamic content that changes both daily, monthly etc is not the same as a bookmark (or the community support infrastructure that constitutes most websites (i.e forum, support, about)
A cook with a good CMS will throw up a dynamic cooking site that is tons better than what you describe, more accessible (not needing some special e-reader for your magazine framework) and integrated to tools we have today.
you grandma - she can publish her recipes can she? Ridiculous statement. Cooks cook - they do not use content management systems. They can maybe manage a word processor - that's about how simple it needs to be.
90% of the world are currently excluded from publishing on the internet. It's a revolution that's coming - and someone will make trillions from it. The internet isn't even barely born yet. The technocracy that rules right now won't control it forever.
Your idea is just the Web with different words. It's not a solution to an existing problem.
Yeah, and when Henry Ford asked his customers what they wanted in a mode of transport they said a faster horse
E-books and the iTunes bookstore is about 1,000,000 times more probable than some wacky Magazine framework that's just a website embedded in a PDF file. In fact, with Google, Amazon and many others already doing it, I expect Apple isn't going to be far behind. One thing the web can't do that books can is novels. Reading a novel in a web browser on a computer screen just doesn't work.
Still way too technical and elitist. Apple need to iMovie internet publishing if you get my drift
I'm not wondering. It'll work at first, because people will be "wow, high-tech!" then it'll fizzle once people realise that reading a magazine once a month ain't any better because it's in a digital format. The newspaper/magazine era, information on a time constraint, just doesn't work anymore.