Two new e-magazines

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Back in the dot com boom, when many websites had no function except as hooks to hang a business plan on, there were quite a few ‘e-magazines’, especially in China. The basic idea was to take the format of a magazine, i.e. a back to front book, add some bells and whistles and put it online.

This form of e-magazine is still around in China; here is a new one:

The China Daily just launched Ni Hao From China, which seems to be a weekly e-magazine. Expect plenty of Peking Opera and old fashioned Chinese culture.

In other news from the e-magazine front, Modern Media have acquired Coldtea.cn, an electronic youth magazine with several daughter publications including After 17, an e-magazine and club for “independent women”.

Text-based websites that are not searchable, it seems so 1990s.

Background: Coldtea was founded in 2003. After 17 came to life last year. Here is an article and Danwei TV interview with Modern Media CEO Thomas Shao (邵忠).)

Note: This article was amended after publication. Thanks to sabu for the corrections

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