The Digital Magazine Newsstand of the Future

Apple will certainly provide us a clean magazine newsstand experience

The digital magazine newsstand from Apple(TM) in iOS 5 provides the proper app based usability to iPod, iPhone, and iPad mobile and tablet devices. The newsstand app brings publication subscription functions to a managed newspaper and magazine applications shelf allowing for convenient access & visibility to the most recent publication issues.  Post - Digital Newsstands

But the future digital newsstand will need to be as open as the magazine software and tools used to create cross media publications that can be accessed by any device - smartphone or tablet magazine format.

This week the Kindle Fire showed us one more magazine newsstand foundation that will probably put more interest and effort into their periodicals.  

Let's just hope they make the magazine publishing software tools easy for all publishers to use and not just those largest publishers capable of signing major deals.  The original publisher software tools and information for publishing to the Kindle left magazine developers wondering if they really understood the market.

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