This one's pretty specific. If you have a Nokia Lumia Windows 8 phone and are a user of Zinio, you can get $50 worth of free magazines. All this is in celebration of Zinio partnering with Nokia to release an exclusive app for the Nokia Lumia phone. By exclusive, they mean that the Lumia is the only Windows 8 phone that can run the app. Zinio is available on other platforms, including iOS and Android. More details in the press release. According to an earlier release, the app is optimized for the smartphone environment and takes advantage of the Windows 8 smart...

Magazines have taken a hit over the years on sales in the marketplace. But we’re talking about physical magazines, the ones where you leaf through actual pages. Companies have moved toward digital magazines as a way to get consumers back, and even find new ones. According to research by Adobe, which produces the software that most professional print and digital magazines are created with, the outlook is positive. “The momentum we’re seeing in digital publishing is that publishers are actually able to make money off these magazines,” Lynly Schambers-Lenox, Adobe’s group product marketing manager for digital publishing, told TabTimes. “They are coming...

  Time magazine has revealed that it will publish a tablet-only edition on the Boston Marathon attack tomorrow. The digital magazine will be available free on iPad, Nook, Android and Kindle devices. The publication will feature stories and exclusive photographs from Boston, as well as... Read Full Article... Source: Tab Times...

I’m sure you’ve experienced this. You go to the doctor or dentist, and you’re informed that “someone will be with you in a minute.” Yeah, right. Knowing you’ll really have a lengthy wait, you try to find a magazine to read. Hmm. People from three months ago. Time from one month ago. Conde Nast Traveler's fall edition. Why aren’t there any current magazines? Foli aims to fix that problem. Instead of ancient, dog-eared periodicals, Foli offers businesses a way to offer current magazine content to their customers through an iPad app. I was fortunate enough to have my home temporarily transformed into a Foli spot, so I could...

* Note: Click here to read Mobile Magazines, Part I — Google Play Magazines, here for Mobile Magazines, Part II — iOS Newsstand and here for Mobile Magazines, Part III — Next Issue So far this series has exclusively covered periodicals on tablets. But what if you have an e-reader? Yes, magazines and other periodicals are available for your devices as well. Of course, if you have a tablet-style device (Kindle Fire, Nook tablet line, etc.), you have access to a wide selection of magazines, similar to what you can access in the apps I've discussed earlier. However, there are even magazines and newspapers...

* Note: Click here to read Mobile Magazines, Part I — Google Play Magazines and here for Mobile Magazines, Part II — iOS Newsstand In the first two parts of TeleRead's Mobile Magazines series, I've written about ways to read individual magazines by subscription. But what about an "all you can read" model? It was ironic that I learned about Next Issue on Monday, as I was starting this series. An ad for it popped up while I was reading my morning news on Flipboard. Serendipitous, eh? Being a big fan of the Netflix model, I decided to try it out. It works...

* Note: Click here to read Mobile Magazines, Part I — Google Play Magazines Yesterday, we were talking about magazines in the Android world with Google Play Magazines. Today, let's switch to the iOS world and talk about Newsstand. One of the things I really like in Play Magazines is the 'Library' view, which has a scrolling cover view. Newsstand is more utilitarian and just ... less cool, in my opinion. However, it is functional.  As you would expect from a digital magazine, navigation is simple. You can tap through to articles from the Table of Contents. Or you can access a page-by-page view...

News stories and e-books are only two things you can read on your mobile devices. Magazines have become increasingly popular, and for good reason. Just like with e-books, a tablet or e-reader can hold many publications at a time, making magazines just as portable as books. As an added bonus, e-publications don't take up extra room in your living room, kitchen or other rooms where you may store their print cousins. Subscription prices can be very attractive, making them significantly less expensive than their paper versions. And now some magazines, like Newsweek, are only available electronically. So you've decided to give digital...

Here's an idea whose time is long overdue: A company known as Foli is using location detection technology to update all those wrinkled, months-old magazines that are always sitting around in sad little piles at the dentist's office or the waiting room at the hospital. Here's how it works: First, a business interested in offering the service has to visit the Foli website, where they can sign up to become a Foli browsing spot. (The service isn't yet widely available, but it does currently seem to be in the process of spreading itself throughout the country.) Visitors to the waiting room...

"Over the years I've often quoted David H. Rothman of Alexandria, Va., a pioneer in the entire field of electronic reading devices," writes James Fallows, a national correspondent for The Atlantic, in an article about U.S. infrastructure that was published earlier this morning on The Atlantic's website. "[Rothman] was talking about his "Teleread" proposal many, many years [before] products like the Kindle, Nook, or iPad had been conceived." [caption id="attachment_79310" align="alignright" width="130"] David Rothman[/caption] In the same post, Fallows also emphasizes Rothman's philosophy of e-readers as "'public goods' and indispensable parts of the modern infrastructure of the 21st century, in much the way public libraries...

I about wet myself after opening up the February 18 issue of New York magazine, after which I immediately flipped to the often imitated (but never duplicated) Approval Matrix. There it was, right down in the furthest corner of the Brilliant/Lowbrow axis: Liberal-arts rockers Vampire Weekend show their allegiance to print by announcing their new album title in the N.Y. Times classifieds. Don't get me wrong: I realize we're all media-savvy enough to recognize this sort of thing as a clever marketing ploy, and nothing more. But therein lies the basis of my excitement ... and the overarching point of this post. Let me...

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