DPS Pricing: Am I screwing anything up?

Hey all. I hate to find myself in short-term bugaboos here, but I'm trying to dissect Adobe's pricing model and make sure I communicate it correctly, lest my small agency venture into the territory of "unforseen hard costs".
We are looking to use the DPS platform to build an iPad based cookbook for a client. Pretty cut and dry. No subscriptions, gating, e-commerce or anything that might be construed as non-standard.
As I understand it, this is a single-use folio. Because we have a paid team subscription through the Creative Cloud, we will not incur any additional costs from Adobe to create our cookbook single-use folio in InDesign and publish it as an app.
We will incur a $99/year fee from Apple to register as a developer. Once we've undergone the lengthy approval process, we will then be able to have our published cookbook app distributed through the Apple App store. Because this is a single-use folio (i.e., there are no instances of multiple issues a la a Conde Nast magazine). If 100,000 people download this app, no additional fees are incurred.
Am I missing anything here? It seems like it's pretty simple - I'm just concerned about unanticipated surprises. Do I understand this pricing model correctly?
Thanks!
Neil

You're right that you can submit lots of apps but incorrect about keeping the app in the App Store after you cancel your iOS dev subscription.
https://developer.apple.com/support/ios/program-renewals.html
What happens if I do not renew my membership?
If your iOS Developer Program membership expires, your apps will no longer be available on the App Store and you will not be able to submit new apps or updates. You will lose access to pre-release software, the Apple Developer Forums, the Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles, and Technical Support Incidents. However, you will still have access to iTunes Connect and free development resources.
2 - No extra fees from Adobe for Single Edition apps.

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Question about DPS Pricing

wwhat's the cost for dps? I thought there was just a monthly fee per month you pay eg 500$. what is this thinv about paying depended on how small or big your company is, I don't think that should be the case as it's the same service each customer whether your magazine have a subscription base of a 100000 or 1000, should it?
also about this cost per download, what is the cost and why is there a cost? If there is a cost then what will happen if I get 1000 download per month

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For information about how DPS is priced please see Digital Publishing Suite Help | DPS pricing options.
Neil

Adobe DPS Pricing

Hello everyone,
I just wanted to see if anyone could clarify some things for me on the DPS pricing, I'm set to launch my 1 time digital magazine so in doing this I must pay the $495 platform fee plus choose which .folio download option I want, my question is what happens if I purchase the 10,000 folio option but by magazine is only downloaded 5,000 times, what happens to the exta .folios? Thanks.

No problem! It's nice to have unlimited downloads without fees (Except of course the 30% cut that Apple takes...)
As for the time it takes for Apple to approve does vary a little bit. Usually it takes 6-7 days (I've never had an app approved less than 6 days), yet sometimes it can take 12-14 days depending on the amount of apps they are reviewing, the content you supply for the app, etc. There are at least 50 different factors that could go into their decision making and amount of time spent on reviewing your app. Keep in mind that if your app gets rejected, it can take longer as you then have to fix the "mistakes" and resubmit. Sometimes I've had that happen and I've had it take another 6-7 days before it would finally get approved. I had one multi-issue viewer app that took 5 weeks before it was finally approved.
I don't mean to scare you -- I just want to make you prepared for the monster called Apple and how their dictatorial style of app regulation can affect your app release date significantly!
I hope that helped! Feel free to ask any questions you need. I'm happy to answer them in any way I can.
Best Wishes,
Alex Rullo

DPS pricing

Hi
Could someone please help out with the prices for Professional Edition and Enterprise Edition. It does not say anything on the linked site below, or any els ware on the net. Please note, that the international pricing chart, only consist of the Professional Edition, and has 10.000 downloads as minimum, instead of 5.000 (annual) downloads, as in the link below?
Please help Adobe!
http://www.adobe.com/dk/products/digital-publishing-suite-family/buying-guide-pricing.edu. html

Pro Monthly $495 plus taxes, Pro Annual : US$5,940 plus taxes, more details here: http://www.adobe.com/products/digital-publishing-suite-pro/buying-guide-pricing.html
Enterprise: You need to contact Call Sales for pricing quote or fill this form : http://response.adobesystemsinc.com/content/publishing_suite

DPS pricing/per download

Hi there, we are going to publish a weekly digital magazine for Apple/Android devices. We expect around 8-10.000 downloads of our app. But we are a little confused about the pricing per download. Do we pay every time somebody downloads the app or every time someone downloads one of our weekly issues?
Thanks

Downloads of the app are irrelevant, only the folio downloads are
counted by Adobe.

Cheaper DPS pricing?

Less expensive than Enterprise edtion, DPS Professional Edition came out in April 8. It's been said since then that Adobe is working on a third version: a less price-abusive one, oriented to freelancers and small businesses who also want a prescense in the new digital universe, but can not afford to pay $6000 (or more) a year to go online.
Any light on when?
Thank you in advance.

Really? an Agency model? Would you please send some info: I could only find the first two models at the DPS website (Enterprise and Professional). And a cut price for a cheaper version, it makes sence what you say, but I don't think small business would be much interested in the selling or analytics part of DPS. All we want is a chapest way to make our digital content live and accesible to our customers. Plain and simple... and price-reasonable.

Another "version" of a project without screwing anything : best way ?

I wish to do another version of a project (some common files, wiping some, adding some new, different audio file and so on) without wiping what's on the original. Is it enough just to rename the project for that ?
Should I make sure to save everything in a different folder ? (Con: taking disk space...)
Can I work the new version under CS4 (even if created in CS3) and expect the CS3 version to remain untouched ?
Thanks,
Rob

The CS3 / CS4 ping-pong does not seem to be a good idea: Every time I switch from one project to the other (same files, different project name), I get PP to "Generate Peak files" for about 20 minutes... Guess the better option will be to create a new sequence under CS3 rather than doing two different versions of the project in CS3 and CS4. Then, I need to render the project just as if it had not been done previously (another 10 minutes...).
Unless there's something I started wrongly ?
Thanks,
Rob

Hello. I began with the DPS. Is it possible to publish a magazine for a limited, specific target group? For example, in one department of a large company? Or to the responsible for various services? If so, how should I do? Thank you for your help.

Hello.
I began with the DPS. Is it possible to publish a magazine for a limited, specific target group? For example, in one department of a large company?
Or to the responsible for various services? If so, how should I do? Thank you for your help.

Short answer is yes.
Click the request for consultation link in Digital Publishing Suite Help | DPS pricing options to receive a price estimate for the DPS license your project.

Is DPS or app publication included with Indesign CC (singe app subscription) ?

So the question is: can I subscribe to Indesign CC and use this to publish a free magazine in the app store or google market? Is the publishing process free when you have an Indesign CC subscription?

The DPS Professional and Single Edition SKUs are no longer available to new customers. If you already purchased single edition license then you can update the existing app or build new DPS app only for ipad.
If you want to create app for Google and windows then purchase DPS enterprise edition.
Please contact Adobe Sales by filling out the following form for further pricing information:
http://www.adobe.com/products/request-consultation/digital-publishing-suite.html
Click here for more information about Adobe Digital Publishing Suite: www.adobe.com/go/publishing
Digital Publishing Suite Help | DPS pricing options

DPS Question for Master Collection Owners

I own the Master Collection and am not interested in subscribing to the Creative Cloud at this time.
My educational institution has a much easier time fiscally in one-time outlays (licenses) rather than monthly (continuing) subscription models.
For this reason I am interested in DPS however not in the Creative Cloud.
I have been having a bear of a time finding out any information regarding non-Creative Cloud DPS pricing.
I sense a real push from Adobe to the Creative Cloud where DPS is concerned.
I am interested in leveraging DPS in a classroom setting with approximately 40 computers, all licensed with at least Web and Design Premium.
If possible, I would be grateful for pricing for the Professional and Enterprise licenses for DPS.
Additionally, if anyone could explain the differences, along with costs for uploading apps for review and distribution by Apple, this would be wonderful.
Thanks in advance for any assistance, either from kind and knowledgeable forum readers, or Adobe staff-
Timothy

Thanks Bob for your swift reply. I greatly appreciate the ability to correspond related to my query.
The goal is to teach students to integrate the Creative Suite CS6 (in this case, primarily Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign/Incopy) and Lightroom4, into a convergent newsroom environment, with final portfolio in the DPS.
We are designing a curriculum where the final project for students will be a student-created magazine/journal to be distributed via the appstore for alumni outreach.
We have a campus site license with Adobe however our IT staff have no information on DPS, or at least they are unaware of it at this time.
Currently I am working on writing a grant with a deadline of next week, Friday January 25. I want to include costs for licensing of DPS for Education, however I have requirements to adhere to.
In particular, I am not permitted to allocate monthly subscriptions into a grant of this type, rather, the licensing costs must be based on 1-time outlays.
If there were additional charges necessary to upload a finished magazine, that would be fine, but monthly charges (ie subscriptions) would not be possible.
Thank you again Bob. I have attempted to contact Adobe Education via this forum and email however it remains (now, and in the past) challenging for me to actually speak with someone.
Cordially with appreciation for your expertise, and willingness to share your perspective-
Timothy

How will the scheduled changes in DPS affect Creative Cloud Subscribers effective May 01, 2015?

I would think that with Adobe's public announcement to retire DPS SE, the company would have the courtesy to inform its Creative Cloud subscribers, who seemingly will be affected, of the impact the change will have on them. I am calling on Adobe to address its customers concerns without further delay.

Here are two threads to look at:
The end of DPS Single Edition
What is going on with DPS?
Single Edition, SE, apps are available to CC members until 1 May 2015. These apps will remain on the App store but will be unable to be updated after 1 May 2015. That means they will not run on any new version of iOS.
There is now one DPS license. Pricing is done on a per client basis. Click the request for consultation link in Digital Publishing Suite Help | DPS pricing options to receive a price estimate for your projects.
The alternatives to using DPS are using a competing product (outlined in the threads above), using a tool such as PhoneGap (html5, css, javascript hybrid app) or Appcelerator Titanium (native development), learn/hire/contract a developer for native development, and fixed-layout epub.
Others have suggested partnering with someone who was a top tier license to continue to keep your apps current.

I want to buy a MacBook Pro, but is it worth it?

The computer I buy is going to be my computer through High School and hopefully College, but a MacBook Pro is around $1000 to $1300 dollars right? So is it worth the cost?

ConnorJ777 wrote:
The computer I buy is going to be my computer through High School and hopefully College
A MacBook Pro will last about 3-5 years depending upon use and abuse about the same with a quality PC laptop.
AppleCare will cover factory defects for 3 years, after that your coasting on your wear and tear upon the machine, which the keyboard, trackpad, ports and optical drive would likely suffer the most it has been in my experience.
In my honest opinion, being a Mac user from day one and using PC's, unless you buy the near top end model Mac's, your really screwing yourself with the lower priced models.
So anything 13" and under in the Mac laptops you can do a HECK of a lot better with a Windows 7 laptop PC of the similar specifications. Instead of paying $1600 you could be paying $400-800.
The trouble with PC's you have to do your home work to make sure your getting a quality product, a high resolution screen on Windows 7 looks fantastic just like it does on OS X.
So unless your willing to spend over $2000 for 15" or 17" MacBook Pro + Windows 7 to keep your skills up, you likely should just get a Windows 7 laptop PC to begin with.
Better to "fit in", at college you can do almost what you want as long as you pass the classes, but when you apply for a job you need to play the part and have a appropriate looking machine to match, as the choice in platforms tells volumes about the person.
Usually creatives use Mac's, that's their symbol. Engineers use Windows for CAD/CAM and it's hardware is based a lot on interfacing with Windows and generic PC's, which a Mac is not, even though it can run Windows.
So a engineer using a Mac would be sending a signal your a administrative engineer, one who has experience already and is now telling others what to do, as you don't need to interface with CAD/CAM or other hardware and thus can afford to carry a status symbol around, being a expensive Mac. Naturally you haven't reached this stage yet as your not even in college yet, so arriving on the job with a Mac would be the wrong choice for a recent college engineering grad.
However arriving on the job at a top ad agency with a Windows PC insted of a Mac would be viewed as inappropriate, because Mac's are viewed as the creatives choice for generating content.
So when choosing a platform your also sending a signal, so it's likely best to have both skills under your belt, question you need to ask is what do you want to do, what are your skils. Then you can get a idea which platform is best for you. I advise both, but I don't advise ignoring Windows, only do that if you can afford to do so.

Buying memory and driver separatley.

First off, thanks for the advice on holding off on buying a MBP for now. So basically now that i have decided that i will buy one but in early september, i have been doing research to familiarize myself with the product etc. So two new questions:
1) there is the 100GB @ 7200rpm, and the 120GB @ 5400rpm. But seagate has released a 120GB @ 7200rpm and its only 49.90, which is a steal, so i think im going to buy it. But only if its compatible and it won't screw anything up, so my question is, is it compatible with the new MBP?
2) Also, ive realized u can save a lot of money by buying an MBP with 1gb and then buying a 1gb chip separately, which is wut im going to do, so my question is, where should i buy it and which one should i buy?
Thanks, sorry again for all the questions, but i am new to apple and need some help.

First the easy one. I always buy memory from Crucial (Micron). That is one of the brands that Apple uses, and it is competitively priced, and usually (most of the time) works fine with the MacBook Pro. Apple's machines can be a bit touchy about their RAM, so cheap no-name brands are to be avoided. Crucial has always been great for me.
http://www.crucial.com
As far as the hard drive is concerned. MacBook Pro's can have their hard drives changed, but it is not a procedure for the faint of heart. While not as difficult to take apart as, say, an iBook, they are still a challenge. That being said, what is the model number of the Seagate, so that I can look it up. There are two considerations as to whether this will work in the MacBook Pro. The amount of current it draws, and the physical size. The MacBook is one slim portable, and typical of modern laptops, stuff is really jammed in there good. The heat dissipation might be a consideration as well.

New to the WRT300N - Firmware & help needed

Hi. First off, I apologize that this is going to be very long. I really hope someone will take the time to read it all and give me some help.
I posted about a week ago about problems with my WRT54GS. All of a sudden with no changes, the wireless stopped working. I tried for a few days to fix it with no luck. I decided to order the WRT300N (I figured if I was going to buy a new one, I'd upgrade and this is the one that Linksys recommended).
I should mention that after ordering the new router, the wireless on the old one started working again but it wasn't working normal. The signal quality had always pretty much been excellent and now it started going up & down but at least it was staying connected.
The new router came today. I disconnected the old one and connected the new one and everything went smoothly. Both my wired & wireless computers worked great. Less than an hour later, the wireless disconnected. I went to view available networks and my network (I use our last name) was gone. I shut off the laptop and it still didn't see the network. So I started looking at the router settings just to be sure that nothing had changed. About 15 minutes later, the laptop found the network and connected again. The signal quality dropped to good and has stayed there ever since.
Just for information, when the laptop is on the desk (which it is 90% of the time), it's only about 5 feet away from the router. I have not tried to take the laptop out of the room yet. Also more information if it helps. I have a large "U" shaped desk. My monitor for my desktop sits in the middle. On either side are the speakers. To my left (in front of me) is a UPS (plugged into this UPS is the tower, monitor, speakers, cradle for my mouse, modem & router), then the tower (I can't put it on the floor because I have physical issues that would prevent me from accessing it there). Now if I turn my chair to the left, the desk has an upper level. This is where my DSL modem & the router are. They are on the end near where the computer is on the lower level. This is the same setup we were using before. Old router worked great for almost 2 years with signal strength at excellant on the laptop. It just started acting up all of a sudden. If I go back to facing center and then turn to the right, that's where my husband's laptop sits. The only other equipment there is a calculator and a lamp and on the floor is another UPS which has his laptop (which has an Intel wireless G card in it), a laser printer, and the above mentioned calculator & lamp plugged in.
Prior to today, I had the Logitech MX3100 keyboard & mouse set. I had purchased a new mouse (Logitech MX Revolution). So I was using the keyboard from the MX3100 with the new mouse and everything was fine running that way for weeks before the problem kicked in. So I don't think it's got anything to do with the mouse. Today's setup is a little different. I am no longer using the MX3100 keyboard. I am using Logitech DiNovo Edge, which uses a bluetooth dongle. I also don't think it's any interference from this keyboard since this is a pre-existing problem.
I do have a cordless phone in the room (it's on the left hand side of the desk from where I sit at the opposite end from the modem & router...also it's one of those that doesn't need a phone line)but it's a 5.8 ghz.
The old router had the option to change the channel, etc. This one has auto for standard channel & wide channel & there's no way to change it that I can see. Radio band is also set to auto but does have 2 choices under it (standard & wide). As I said before, I use our last name for our SSID. It's the same one I've been using for years. There is no one else around here with that SSID. Network mode is mixed.
Concerning the firmware....the information for mine is WRT300N V1.1 firmware v1.51.2. I tried to look for an update but the only one in the list is the WRT300N V1.0. I did click on that but the firmware version is lower and I don't want to screw anything up. Is there a firmware update for me or not? If so, please point me in the right direction as I can't find it.
Concerning the signal strength....would it help to buy a new wireless card for the laptop? The Intel card has been updated with the newest software. The card is internal and to my knowledge can only be replaced with the same card or a bluetooth card. (Computer is a Dell XPS M140.) I do have a card slot but I'm confused because I think Dell called it an Express Card slot and I don't know whether or not the Linksys notebook card that is recommended for this router would work in this slot. If the card would work, is it worth the expense?
What else can I try. I thought about moving the router furthur to the left but it would require moving a few other items and I'm not sure if the cords are long enough. Would it help if the router & modem were not plugged into the same UPS? I do have a regular surge protecter near where my phone is. I would really rather leave them plugged into the UPS though for obvious reasons.
Also if it helps, I have the router on it's side with the 2 antennas on the end pointing straight up and the flat one in the middle I have angled this way.
I hope I have given enough information for some suggestions.
Thanks,
Lisa

Thanks for the response. I was wondering if anyone would take the time to read such a long post. I wanted to be sure to try to give as much information as possible.
My desktop (Dell XPS400) tower is made out of metal...but the router is actually not sitting on it. There is a shelf to the left of my tower (when I'm facing it, otherwise it's to the right of it). That's where the modem & router sit. The shelf sits about 3" over from the edge of the computer and it's about 7" above it.
As far as the wireless card for my husband's laptop...I'm still thinking about it. I'm wondering if there would be any improvement in speed or the quality of the connection with the N card.
Now I just went into the router's settings and tried to make the changes you suggested. I was able to change the radio band from auto to wide BUT once I do that, I loose the ability to leave the wide channel & standard channels on auto. The options for the wide channel are 3-9 and the standard are 1 & 5. I don't know which ones are best to pick so for now I'm not changing anything. I didn't change the advanced settings either as I wasn't sure if I could do that without changing the other settings first.
My husband has noted that he does see the quality of the connection occasionally jump to excellant. For the most part it's staying on good in here. We haven't brought it out into the living room yet to see what it does out there. He hasn't needed to. He has had it disconnect on him a couple of times as well.
I did forgot to mention in that book I wrote that we do live in an apartment building. We are on the 1st floor in the back of the building. Our office is between our living room & another bedroom. There is an apartment above us. There is another apartment on the other side of the other bedroom. Our bathroom is across the hall from this room, other side of that is the kitchen and then there is an apartment in the front of the building. Our front door is off the living room, a hallway seperates our apartment from another one. There are 4 apartments on each floor. Laundry (directly under us) & storage in basement.
I give all these details to try to get the best help. I don't know if all this extra info is helpful or not. We have been using Linksys routers for quite a few years now. This is our 3rd one and our 2nd wireless one. We have been in this apartment for a year now and had no trouble until a few weeks ago. Previously lived in another apartment of the same floor plan in the same complex but on the 3rd floor (boy did we hate walking up those stairs!) with no trouble.
Looking forward to hearing back from you so I can try to make the changes you suggested.
Thanks,
Lisa

How can we use Adobe's Digital Publishing Suite given this scenario

I have a question regarding a very specific scenario as it applies to Adobe Digital Publishing that I am having trouble finding an answer to.
We are a small design firm that produces small-run, proprietary-information, official documents.
Each document is branded to one of our clients, but each document title's design is entirely unique even when done for the same client.
Our clients then selectively distribute these documents to a small number (max 200) of their propective clients (NO GENERAL DISTRIBUTION -- NO APP STORE or iTUNES -- NO CHARGE).
It would be nice that each of our clients could have a branded Adobe Viewer with which their selected prospective clients could view only those documents sent to them (PUSHED); NOT everyone with a client-branded Adobe Viewer would be PUSHED the same document.
And similar to the documents being PUSHED to only specific prospective clients of our clients, that our client could subsequently PULL / delete a document from the prospective client's viewer when the document has expired (besides being promotional documents, they are legal as well, and when expired, need to be withdrawn from readership).
So, how is something like this done? What Adobe DPS pricing plan applies?
Would it be a Single plan, but for each client branded viewer? The Professional and Enterprise pricing setup is excessive given our extremely small scale of extremely specific directed distribution for no revenue from that distribution.
Please help me understand, since I cannot find such an answer online.
Thank you.
Mark

If I understand you correctly, you would need an Enterprise level account for that.
Bob

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