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Installer has re-launched its magazine app with Page Lizard, bringing it up to date with fully-responsive HTML articles, personalisation and other features.

For 20 years, Installer has been the must-read magazine for plumbing, heating and renewables professionals, and prides itself on providing the latest news, product and training information to the industry.

Can we predict the major trends that will affect publishing over the next ten years?

It's a difficult task when technology and behaviour shifts so rapidly, but it's clear that there are some lines on the graph that have only been going one way for some time. And, like climate change, they push many into denial.

2015 brought sweeping changes across the industry. The technology giants started elbowing each other for a slice of the publishing pie, ad-blocking went mainstream and a handful of large magazine titles shockingly kicked the bucket.

Nearly a year ago, we set out our predictions for the Digital Publishing industry for 2015 in an article that has consistently taken the top spot in our most popular posts.

Some were safe bets, others were a little more off-the-wall, but as the year draws to a close it is indisputable that the industry has seen dramatic changes.

At the PPA's Independent Publisher Conference, I was asked to contribute 4 points to a series on '20 things you need to know about Digital Publishing'.

Condensing the issues faced by publishers into four points was a challenge, but here are the important developments that I think Independent Publishers should know.