A FeedJournal API is now available for private early beta testing. With the API, it will be possible to quickly build a white-label web site using the FeedJournal engine to generate newspaper PDF files from any RSS feeds. The API also gives you access to an engine and database for user management.
The beta release of the API is available from today to a limited number of strategic partners. If you would be interested in using or reselling such a solution, you are welcome to contact me.
One of many interesting user comments and feature requests accumulating at FeedJournal’s UserVoice page is to better cater for e-book readers, such as the Amazon Kindle, iRex iLiad and Sony Reader Digital Book devices. With today’s update to FeedJournal Reader it is even easier.
Those among us who read our FeedJournal newspaper on an e-book reader are prime examples that FeedJournal does not have to be consumed as a “dead-tree” newspaper.
Today’s update provides optimized page sizes for the most popular devices. Just log in to the Reader service (or create a free account if you are not yet registered) and set the newspaper page size to be optimized for your e-reader model in the Edit Profile page.
I plan to soon roll out many more features targeting e-book readers, so make sure you vote for the features that are most important to you!
If your device of choice is not listed, please let me know and I will add it ASAP.
For your reference, I am including a table of the optimal full-screen reading pixel resolutions for the most popular e-book reader devices. I never managed to dig up a similar table myself in my research, so I hope it will be of use to someone.
| Gadget | Optimal Width (pixel) | Optimal Height (pixel) |
| Amazon Kindle | 525 | 640 |
| iRex iLiad | 768 | 940 |
| Sony Reader | 584 | 754 |
I have rolled out a new update for FeedJournal Publisher, fixing a bug in the free basic level service:
I have rolled out a new update for FeedJournal Reader, improving the GUI and layout. These are the major changes:
In addition, I also updated the blog post links on the feedjournal.com to post to this blog.
A small but often requested feature has been added to FeedJournal Publisher. It is now possible to define e-mail recipients that will be sent new issues of generated newspapers as attachments. Please try out the new function and let me know how it works.
This feaure is available to all FeedJournal Publisher Gold members.
Robin Good's Master New Media site took a deep look at FeedJournal today. Daniele Bazzano is writing about his experiences using FeedJournal Reader and Publisher. In a well-researched review he also pits FeedJournal against the competition.