Easy publishing (well easier now than it ever has been) and the interwebby have opened up whole new avenues to self publish and get stuff out there. Certainly we have a large collection of ‘indy printing’ that would never have been possible (to the quality it is) without the interwebby and desktop publishing.

So a few weeks ago when we stumbled on a publication called ‘The Ride’, we looked up the website and ordered ourselves a copy. Mighty glad we did. Square bound, recycled paper and soy based ink, ‘The Ride’ is 146 pages of inspirational stories from people on bikes from all walks of life around the world. Great stuff, brilliant even and reading it just makes you feel good and want to get on the bike and ride.

[check it and then order it, you won't regret it]

After Issue 3 on CD, we decided that sitting in front of the PC to read a mag was not that hot an idea, so developed a DVD platform. In moving to DVD, it opened the path for more visual based content but also meant that we had to lose much of the written PDF based content, the upside being one could sit in front of the TV now and kick back with a beer while watching 26inches!

Unfortunately, the modest readership meant that continuing on the path became more difficult, as production costs rose. Ultimately, the DVD saw the end of the magazine as a whole.

The 26inches.com magazine ran bi-monthly over 8 issues. The first, and still the only, of its kind in Australia, it was based on a mix of written, video and interactive articles. Starting as a web based magazine, it progressed to CD and finally DVD for its last issue. It was ceased as the readership was ultimately not enough to sustain it’s increasing production costs and there was little desire by those involved to do a more traditional print based magazine.

CD 3 symbolised that we were getting comfortable with the medium and we feel was one of the best. This was the last of the CD-R deliveries as after this point we decided to take it a step further and move to an interactive DVD format.

Be warned:

This is the whole CD and nothing’s been cut down. The video content is big, 80Mb+, so it’s best looked at on a big pipe connection.

The presentation uses pop up windows.

The site is housed in a Flash wrapper, so make sure your browser is capable of seeing Flash files.

Written articles are delivered in Acrobat.

[Click here to launch CD3]

The 26inches.com magazine ran bi-monthly over 8 issues. The first, and still the only, of its kind in Australia, it was based on a mix of written, video and interactive articles. Starting as a web based magazine, it progressed to CD and finally DVD for its last issue. It was ceased as the readership was ultimately not enough to sustain it’s increasing production costs and there was little desire by those involved to do a more traditional print based magazine.

CD 2 was a vast improvement on #1 in terms of delivery as we figured out the medium and delivery format

Be warned:

This is the whole CD and nothing’s been cut down. The video content is big, 80Mb+, so it’s best looked at on a big pipe connection.

The presentation uses pop up windows.

The site is housed in a Flash wrapper, so make sure your browser is capable of seeing Flash files.

Written articles are delivered in Acrobat.

[Click here to launch CD2]

The 26inches.com magazine ran bi-monthly over 8 issues. The first, and still the only, of its kind in Australia, it was based on a mix of written, video and interactive articles. Starting as a web based magazine, it progressed to CD and finally DVD for its last issue. It was ceased as the readership was ultimately not enough to sustain it’s increasing production costs and there was little desire by those involved to do a more traditional print based magazine.

CD 1, as you can gather, was the first of the disc formats and allowed greater interactivity and size of content. It was a bit of an experiment, and looking at it now, maybe even a challenge, for those reading it but hey, you have to start somewhere!

Be warned:

This is the whole CD and nothing’s been cut down. The video content is big, 80Mb+, so it’s best looked at on a big pipe connection.

The presentation uses pop up windows.

The site is housed in a Flash wrapper, so make sure your browser is capable of seeing Flash files.

Written articles are delivered in Acrobat.

[Click here to launch CD1]