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The Heretic Magazine

By Gregon

For those of you who enjoyed our free PDF magazine of a few years back, Sub Rosa, here’s something you should definitely check out: The Heretic Magazine. It’s a new magazine project from two of my bestest of Grail friends, editor Andrew Gough and designer Mark James Foster. Mark has worked on Darklore with me, and was also the designer behind Sub Rosa, so you’ll definitely get a similar vibe as some of TDG’s own projects, even though it’s not a Daily Grail product. And Andrew has long been involved in reearching and reporting on various ‘hidden history’ topics, not least the Rennes le Chateau mystery. I’ve posted Andrew’s welcome and introduction to The Heretic above.

The Heretic is, like Sub Rosa, a digital age magazine. However, while Sub Rosa was done as an interactive PDF, The Heretic makes use of now ubiquitous tablet computers/eBook readers, and so is available as an Apple iBook or a Kindle eBook. Its primary target medium is the former though, with the iBook edition offering an absolutely beautiful interface for reading the articles, viewing images and even the embedded video.

The first issue features articles from the likes of Robert Bauval, Daniel Pinchbeck, John Major Jenkins, Tim Wallace-Murphy, Mark Oxbrow and Patrice Chaplin, among many others.

The Heretic Magazine is an exciting, 21st century digital quarterly, incorporating video, digital art and some of the most forward-thinking writers of our age.

Our goal is to combine the work of the leaders in esoteric thought with new voices, and fresh ideas that challenge the status quo.

Our ethos is simple. Question the truth. Respect the facts. At The Heretic Magazine, we honour heretics past, present and future by examining provocative subjects with innovative research.

The question is, are you a heretic?

The Heretic Magazine’s website has direct links for purchasing the inaugural issue from both the iTunes store and various Amazons around the world. Recommended, make sure you take a look at the mag and let me know your thoughts.

Full disclosure: The Heretic Magazine has purchased banner space here at TDG to promote the new release. However, my reason for posting about the mag is based on just two things: (a) it’s a great magazine that TDG’s readership would no doubt be very interested in, and (b) Andrew and Mark are both good friends, and I would help them spread word about this fantastic project regardless.

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Greg
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Greg is the owner-editor of The Daily Grail, as well as the author of a number of books including Stop Worrying, There Probably is an Afterlife.

4 Comments

  1. iBook on a Macbook? Never!
    I have a Macbook Air. Now anyone might believe that if anything would have an app for reading iBooks, then a Macbook would but, it seems, this is not so. I would have to buy a iPad to read an iBook. Now I also have a Kindle. I can read my Kindle books on my phone (except that my eyes aren’t really up to that any more), my Windows PC and my Macbook. No problem at all – everything is sync’ed seamlessly and it all works wonderfully. But the presentation is pretty low quality – no high quality photographs, no colour. Apple produces some fine products but their policy of chasing every last dollar leaves a bad taste.

    Why iBooks Will Never Come to MAC OS

    PS. I’ve now discovered Kindle Cloud Reader and, from what I can gather (though I’m still not certain), colour photographs and movies can be viewed via a web browser. So my question would now be: is the kindle version also available in full colour / multimedia like the iBook version?

    1. Macbooks and Kindles
      In answer to your more specific question, when I view Kindle Books on Amazon’s ‘Kindle for Mac’ App, I get colour photos. So, yes, books like The Heretic Magazine, which have colour photos, will display those images in colour if you use the desktop apps. I personally have not yet used their Cloud Reader but my guess is that, like the Mac App, this also displays images in colour.

      The Heretic Magazine Kindle Edition has all the text and a lot of the colour images included, but you will be missing the interactive features and the video too. If you look up Volume 1 of The Heretic Magazine on your Amazon store and click ‘Look Inside’ you get a full-page preview of the content, and you will see examples of the colour images. This matches quite closely how it looks on the ‘Kindle for Mac’ App. We tailored the Kindle edition so that it would work seamlessly on ALL Kindle devices and Apps. It does not match the iPad experience, but that is because at the moment so much more is possible inside Apple’s iBooks. The Kindle edition is still very good in our opinion, and it matches anything else you will find on a Kindle.

      A final word on your Macbook Air, and iBooks. Having spent a lot of time with all this technology, since it was introduced, I feel that these Multi-Touch books really only work well on an iPad. Without the touch-screen interface they just don’t work as well and I personally think Apple has done the right thing by limiting these books to the iPad.

      I read the article that you linked to, and I disagree with the writer’s conclusions. Apple for me is all about maximising the user’s experience, and if they feel that reading one of these Multi-Touch books on an Air won’t do the experience justice, then they just don’t do it. The article says that this is all about Apple squeezing the last cent out of the consumer, but that makes no sense in this instance because it is clear that they probably could release iBooks for Macbooks and so on, which would surely result in greater sales of books for Apple, but they choose not to do that. That to my mind indicates that this has nothing to do with maximising sales, and everything to do with choosing to deliver only the best possible reading experience.

      Personally, reading these Multi-Touch iBooks is a very enlightening experience for me. The technology is so much more advanced than anything seen on other devices. That is why we made the decision to aim our Magazine at the iPad. But we’re not limiting our customers to that one device, which is why we also produce the Kindle edition. One day Amazon will catch up I am sure, offering authoring software and updating their own reading devices (yes, I am looking at you Kindle Fire). Android will also be there in the near future I am sure, but for now, Multi-Touch iBooks on the iPad is quite a long way ahead.

      Mark Foster
      The Heretic Magazine

      1. Thank you for such a
        Thank you for such a comprehensive reply. Just a comment about the multi-touch thing … my Macbook Air is mid-2011 and the touchpad is designed to imitate the iPad finger gestures. I find it natural to use my friend’s iPad having become familiar with the MBA.

        Anyhow, I will certainly take a look at the sample in the Kindle store.

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