The publications look stunning on tablets, but pretty cool on PCs as well :-)
http://papermine.com/
What do you guys think?
Papermine isn't for brochures, only, though. You can create pretty much whatever you want with it.
For instance (and this was actually a problem I had after I got married), wedding albums to send to family and friends via email. I actually think photographers could use this a lot in general.
It's just a nicer format than a PDF (10 times nicer on a tablet, I'd say), and more interactive.
Compared to similar products, Papermine actually lets you create the content, and it's not merely an aggregator.
:-)
I don't take care of the financial aspect, but I do see your point.
I'll take a look at ShopLocal, to be honest I'm not familiar with it. Is it used by most big companies, etc.?
Reminds me a bit of treesaverjs.com, which created automatic magazine-like page layouts for any size screen, but unfortunately seems to have run out of steam.
Do you plan on offering a complete solution for publishers including CMS integrations?
Compared to other platforms we're more about the user using a editor to create the content himself, rather than doing that automatically (like—for instance—Paperly). There is an import tool, but normally you'd want to use Papermine as a content creation tool, rather than an aggregator.
As for CMS integrations, right now we're focusing on getting the basics right. However, we do want to make it easy to create great publications: if integrating with any CMSes people use will help with that, we will certainly do it :-)