Systems and methods for cloud-based content management and distribution

A cloud-based publishing system comprising processing circuitry configured to:

• receive content from one or more content providers, wherein the content comprises one or more articles;
• generate a draft issue comprising a first set of data indicative of the one or more articles, wherein the first set of data comprises an article classification and a table of contents indicator for each of the one or more articles, wherein the article classification is indicative of whether a respective article of the one or more articles is a feature article, regular article, or advertisement, wherein the table of contents indicator is indicative of whether the respective article of the one or more articles is to appear in tables of contents;
• determine, based on the table of contents indicator of each article of the one or more articles, a subset of the one or more articles having a table of contents indicator indicative that the respective draft article is to appear in the tables of contents;
• generate a draft table of contents for the draft issue, the draft table of contents comprising an indication of the subset of the one or more articles;
• generate a published issue based on the draft issue, wherein the published issue comprises:
• a second set of data that is different than the first set of data and indicative of the one or more articles;
• and
• a published table of contents generated based on the draft table of contents, wherein the draft issue is maintained after generating the published issue;
• provide the published issue for display on an electronic device;
• and
• after providing the published issue to the electronic device, provide an updated published issue to the electronic device based on a user input to modify the draft issue.

A method for providing digital issues of digital content, the method comprising:

• generating, via processing circuitry, a draft issue;
• adding, via the processing circuitry and to a first set of data indicative of a plurality of draft articles in the draft issue, at least one issue-specific article to the draft issue and at least one issue-independent article to the draft issue, wherein the issue-specific article only exists in the draft issue and the issue-independent article is configured to exist outside of the draft issue, wherein the first set of data comprises an article classification and a table of contents indicator for the issue-specific article and each draft article of the plurality of draft articles, wherein the article classification is indicative of whether the issue-specific draft article or a respective draft article of the plurality of draft articles is a feature article, regular article, or advertisement, wherein the table of contents indicator is indicative of whether the issue-specific draft article or the respective draft article of the plurality of draft articles is to appear in tables of contents;
• determine, based on the table of contents indicator of the issue-specific article and each draft article of the plurality of draft articles, a subset of articles, selected from the issue-specific article and the plurality of draft articles, having a table of contents indicator indicative that the respective draft article is to appear in the tables of contents;
• generate a draft table of contents for the draft issue, the draft table of contents comprising an indication of the subset of the plurality of draft articles;
• generating, via the processing circuitry, a published issue comprising:
• a second set of data different than the first set of data, wherein the second set of data is indicative of the plurality of draft articles, the at least one issue-specific article, and the at least one issue-independent article;
• and
• a published table of contents generated based on the draft table of contents, wherein the draft issue is maintained after generating the published issue;
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• causing, via the processing circuitry, the published issue to be provided to an electronic device;
• after providing the published issue to the one or more electronic devices, providing, via the processing circuitry, an updated published issue to the one electronic device based on a user input to modify the draft issue.