Does Scotland have the expertise to succeed at digital publishing?
The magazine experience, editorial skill and expertise to research information, compile it and present words and pictures creatively to the reader is ideally suited to digital publishing and gives a head start to any organisation launching a digital operation. Scotland is lucky to have a wide range of creative talent among its writers, designers, photographers and great technological innovators. It is leading the way in many new technologies and the media is very active here. Companies like Rockstar North and Django Films are major players in the game and animation industries for instance. As with anything else in life, to succeed in any branch of publishing you need to have lots of good ideas, plus talent, expertise and determination. If you have all of those and a little luck along the way, chances are you’ll go far. What magazines stand out from the competition right now? On an international level, relatively new print publications like Monocle are very ambitious, imaginative and su
