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Meet our publisher of the month, Bunyan Velo. The brainchild of Lucas Winzenburg, Bunyan Velo is a collection of photographs, essays and stories celebrating the simple pleasures of traveling by bicycle. Winzenburg launched his passion project in 2013, which after recently leaving his full-time job, is now his profession. Meet Lucas and Bunyan Velo below.

Q: Bunyan Velo is a great publication with a unique point of view. What led to its creation?

Lucas Winzenburg: Back in 2012, traveling by bicycle had become my foremost passion in life. I spent all of my free time building up bikes, planning trips and scouring the web for inspiration and information on the subject. I stumbled upon many individual blogs, but there really wasn’t a publication devoted solely to off-road bicycle touring, so I decided to create it. I contacted a several of the writers whose blogs I’d found and pitched my idea for a new bicycle travel publication. Remarkably, they all agreed to contribute, and in early 2013 I published the first issue of Bunyan Velo. In essence, it was a collection of what I considered to be the best writing and photography scattered around the internet. In many ways, I was just making it for myself. I never could have guessed that so many people would be intrigued by essays, stories and photos about traveling by bicycle.

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Every year, the world celebrates an iconic franchise that brings fans together no matter their age, gender or location. On May 4th, the Force is at its strongest as people around the world happily share the oh-so-punny motto: “May the fourth be with you.” Whether you’re new to the franchise or an old hand at Star Wars lore, issuu is a great place to let your reading awaken on Star Wars Day.

Take a look at some of our favorite Star Wars related publications below or browse through our galaxy’s finest Star Wars stack.

1. Camera Operator

These amazing movies do not make themselves, but we rarely get to hear from the people behind the actual camera. Camera Operator gives viewers that interesting point of view; and their Winter 2016 issue features an in-depth, behind the scenes look at the work that went into Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Camera junkies, be sure to check this out!

2. Pyramid International

What better way to show your love for a franchise than by decking out your bedroom or work cubby with swag? Pyramid International’s catalogs are a pop culture nerd’s dream, and the Star Wars: Rogue One Catalog has items for every budget.

3.  Star Wars in Play

If you’re looking for something more whimsical, look no further than this senior capstone project involving Star Wars figurines. The project captures each figurine “in play” — uniquely frozen in a pose that best captures his or her personality in the franchise. Flip through and see if the characters are how you remember them.

4. Central Michigan Life

Get a hometown view on Star Wars’ lasting legacy with Central Michigan Life. With pages dedicated to the series and the then-upcoming new film, The Force Awakens, these local fans show a diehard passion we fully respect.

How are you celebrating Star Wars Day? Tweet @issuu with your favorite Star Wars publication, and keep the galactic love going for Space Day, which takes place tomorrow, May 5th!

Starting this week, you may encounter a new experience on issuu: being able to easily preview and buy digital access to select publications, right from issuu.com. We’re starting slow — working with a small group of publishers (who have generally already been selling content outside of issuu) and their loyal readers — to make sure we do digital magazine sales right.

Why are we introducing digital sales? For a long time, all content on issuu was presented as free to read. For publishers who needed to sell their work, this required convoluted workarounds, such as uploading only a few pages for a preview and linking out to external sites to sell digital PDFs without the beautiful, professional issuu presentation. For readers, not being able to easily access content they love became quite frustrating.

We strongly believe issuu is the only digital publishing platform with the scale, scope and audience to continue increasing access to great free content and fostering the ability for dedicated, creative publishers to fund the work they love to do. Amazing content from passionate creators – for free and for sale – should live and thrive on issuu.

Up until now, we’ve only allowed free content on issuu. The next step begins now, and when we do make this digital sales service more widely available on issuu in the future, rest assured that issuu will remain the #1 place to access great free content that you can’t get anywhere else. By growing both free and paid content in one place, we’ll be connecting readers to an even greater array of meaningful content that wasn’t easily accessible before.

Curious about the experience? Check out one of our for-sale publications in action.

We’d love to hear your thoughts. Email us at feedback@issuu.com.  If you’re a publisher interested in selling your publication on issuu, let us know here.  

Recently celebrating their 5-year anniversary, Image 34 Magazine’s founder and editor in chief Michael Sweeney sat down with issuu to look back at what the magazine has accomplished so far and where it is headed next.

Q: Looking back at Image 34 Magazine’s last 5 years, what were your biggest successes and failures? What did you learn from them?

Michael Sweeney: As sad and predictable as this may sound, nothing has been a failure. Yes, some things didn’t always go to plan, but that’s the fun part. It has been a challenge and a life lesson, but we’ve learned from everything that happened to us along the way. Looking back, I can smile at everything we have done, even at the things that I thought didn’t work so well at the time.

Seeing all the issues we have produced, looking back at everyone we have worked with and met — some who have now become really close friends — there’s one thing I really pride the magazine in doing. It is producing what I call a family; a family of creatives and professionals all working with passion in our hearts.

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Last weekend across the nation, thousands of people gathered in Washington, D.C., New York and our very own San Francisco to take a stand for science.

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Some of the issuu team made it to the protest and got to stand with tons of other science minded people from the city and hear speakers like Adam Savage from Mythbusters.

If you didn’t make it to the march, or just want to know what all of this is about check out MarchforScience.com. On the site is a week long plan of ways you can educate yourself on the issues and get involved.

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