Hey guys, I figured with all the forum being a to-do with the new 3.0 core issues... might be nice to post a regular thread :) Not sure if this is something that BT can do, but i would think so. I'm looking to create a digital magazine for subscription in Newsstand. Files are in PDF format. There are several online places that will do this, but they either want a couple hundred bucks up front, or some even several hundred per month. There are some pure xcode project examples out there, and they all use a json file to submit the pdf file info, so I wouldn't think it to be too hard to make a buzztouch plugin for the person that knows how to do that. Basically, most of the xcode examples I have seen are identical, with just changing the json file to point to the ubscription method, file url, and magazine title. How hard would it be to make a BT plugin that had those things in the control panel? Obviously you'd have to setup the in-app purchases on your itunes connect backend, but after that, you'd just plugin those 3 fields in the bt control panel, and it should be able to generate everything else thats needed. I did notice that all the examples need the inapppurchase sdk and newsstand sdk from apple, but thats easy enough. Would that be fairly easy to do? Has anyone else found a way to publish to newsstand using buzztouch? Just curious as to what would be involved.

I would love to give this a try. But just no time. It would be interesting to see a plugin for Newsstand. Can you point out the xcode examples that you saw?

No problem. They all same to use the same backbone... it's called the Baker Framework. Here are the examples I've been using, and they all use it: https://github.com/viggiosoft/NewsstandTutorial - Uses Baker framework, haven't played with this one much yet. At a quick glance though, it looks like the next one on the list... but there is one downfall to the next one http://www.newsstandhq.com/learn-more - Also uses the Baker Framework. Full source down downloadable free, but the source code only allows for free magazine subscriptions. They want $200 for the source code that enables the paid subscriptions. http://bakerframework.com/ - The source to the framework. Strangely enough, it only advertises HTML 5 content, but both of the above examples use it to allow HTML or PDF

Theres got to be an easy way to tell the above code to use inapp purchase for a paid subscription. It's probably just the difference of one line of code, setting your price and ipapp purchase ID... but without seeing the paid version source, I wouldn't know what that line of code would be, lol.