DIY digital magazine platform Glossi adds new tools, with paid subscriptions coming soon
Digital magazine publishing platform Glossi rolled out new tools Wednesday, designed to let users create and distribute their magazines more easily. Read more »
All-you-can-read digital magazine service Next Issue Media expands to Windows 8
All-you-can-read digital magazine app Next Issue Media is expanding from iPad to Windows 8. The company partnered with Microsoft and hopes that users will want to read digital magazines across their devices. Read more »
Digital magazine sales still tiny overall, but titles like Reader’s Digest see huge growth
Nearly 65 percent of U.S. magazines now have a digital replica edition, but those editions make up just under three percent of overall circulation. For some individual titles, though, digital growth was a lot more impressive. Read more »
What digital magazines can learn from ebook publishers
Magazine publishers will have to adopt more nuanced digital pricing strategies as tablets take off. They can look to book publishers — who are a lot further along in the digital revolution — for some help. Read more »
Hearst: “Nearly 800,000″ monthly digital U.S. subs, short of 1 million goal
Hearst Magazines president David Carey says the company has nearly 800,000 monthly digital subscribers in the U.S. across platforms, and over 80 percent of the digital subscribers “are new to our files.” Read more »
Intel hopes the young will like its new mobile magazine
Today Intel is launching a Flipboard-like digital magazine, “iQ by Intel,” that aims to attract “a younger audience” through a blend of employee-curated content and original stories. So far, it’s mostly a lot of pieces from TechCrunch and Mashable. Read more »
All-you-can-read tablet mags…unless you have iPad or Kindle Fire
photo: Next Issue Media
Magazine joint venture Next Issue Media goes live with its long-delayed digital newsstand. Users will be able to read popular magazines for a flat fee — if they have a tablet running Android 3.0 or later. For now, iPad and Kindle Fire users need not apply. Read more »
