Several months back, we wrote about Issuu, a free DIY service for digital magazines, which works fine, so long as you’re into donating your content to others:
By distributing or disseminating Uploader Submissions through the Issuu
Service, you hereby grant to Issuu a worldwide, non-exclusive,
transferable, assignable, fully paid-up, royalty-free, license to host,
transfer, display, perform, reproduce, distribute, and otherwise
exploit your Uploader Submissions, in any media forms or formats, and
through any media channels, now known or hereafter devised, including
without limitation, RSS feeds, embeddable functionality, and
syndication arrangements in order to distribute, promote or advertise
your Uploader Submissions through the Issuu Service.
Whenever you’re talking "free" and "DIY," that’s a nice recipe for getting a lot of submissions that the users don’t have permission for and for a while Issuu seemed to be the Net’s largest repository for liberated content… until now.
Mygazines is a company like Issuu that’s been released in beta format. Like Issuu, it’s free and like Issuu, it’s a DIY product. Like Issuu, there seems to be lot of content that the publishers never dreamed would end up there. And like Issuu, they seem to have little regard for people trying to make money with content:
Mygazines may remove any Content and Mygazines accounts at any time for
any reason (including, but not limited to, upon receipt of claims or
allegations from third parties or authorities relating to such
Content), or for no reason at all.
Of course, I could be overeacting. After all, anyone concerned about their content could always contact "John Smith," the name of the person who registered the URL (accordinging to WhoIs). Better yet, go visit the company, which claims to be located in Anguilla.
