Wetpixel and Wetpixel Quarterly: A Review

Douglas David Seifert · Issue 45, Nov/Dec 2008 · pp. 36–39

Products mentioned: Wetpixel.com, Wetpixel Quarterly

The exponential expansion of content on the Internet and the ready acceptance of it as a delivery medium across all demographics (without language, geographic or cultural boundaries) has caused a revolution in publishing. No longer is the consumer forced to pay for annual subscriptions or wait in terminal periods of time for the postal service to delivery periodicals. There is an alternative. Indeed, the success of UWP and other online magazines is testament to this new direction in reader tastes and the relative ease with which a virtual magazine can be produced. The phenomena is so pervasive, in the interest of clarity a new descriptive vocabulary is needed: online publishing is self describing and needs no elucidation, but magazine publishing itself - the production and distribution of a tangible product, a product well established and taken for granted that has been around more than …