Create your digital magazine with Shorthand

Delight your readers, supercharge engagement, and publish visually stunning stories at scale.

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The world's leading brands trust Shorthand

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  • The University of Queensland logo
  • SAIC logo
  • California national guard logo
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Create beautiful reading experiences, without code

Publish immersive, interactive content that will delight and grow your digital magazine’s audience.

  • Publish gorgeous responsive HTML5 stories that can be enjoyed and shared by all your readers.
  • Create immersive content with your existing media assets, without writing a line of code.
  • Have developers in your team? Use them to optimise your content with custom HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Truly accessible digital content

Move away from hard-to-use flipbooks and clunky PDFs with beautiful, engaging content.

  • Publish visually-rich content that is accessible to all, including those using screen readers.
  • All Shorthand stories are fully responsive, which means they can be enjoyed on all devices and screen sizes.
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Drive subscriptions to your magazine

Use high-quality content to build your reputation and grow your subscribers.

  • Win the attention of your readers with stunning, world-beating visual stories.
  • Have an existing paywall? No problem. Shorthand integrates easily with nearly all paywall solutions.

A better return on investment

Get a better return from your content investment with stronger engagement, audience loyalty, and click-through rates.

  • Grow your organic traffic with SEO-friendly HTML web pages, and outrank content distributed in PDFs and bespoke apps.
  • Encourage social sharing with Open Graph metadata for social networks like Twitter and Facebook.
  • Measure impact using Shorthand’s analytics engine, or embed your own third-party code, such as Google Analytics.
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Check out these stunning digital magazines stories — built with Shorthand

Imperial College London

Imperial College London

The Wilderness Society

The Wilderness Society

The University of Queensland

The University of Queensland

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Our Shorthand stories are performing on every metric that we've been measuring ourselves on, such as scroll depth, clicks on page, and click-throughs on social media. The targets and stretch targets have been met on all our content..

Andrew Youngson, News and Campaigns Content Manager, Imperial College London

I’d call it revolutionary. It’s completely changed the way we create digital content, and our engagement has increased dramatically for the better, with people going out of their way to tell us how beautiful the Shorthand stories are.

Camille Layt, Senior Manager Publications, University of Queensland

Learn more about digital magazines with Shorthand

The Shorthand guide to digital magazines

The Shorthand guide to digital magazines

10 examples of stellar digital magazines

10 examples of stellar digital magazines

How Imperial College London uses Shorthand

How Imperial College London uses Shorthand

Ready to try the digital magazine platform used by the University of Cambridge, Bonhams, and Imperial College London?

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