Next Issue, a Netflix for magazines, lands on the iPad

The Netflix model of unlimited content works well for movies and television shows, but can it work for magazines?

That’s the question being answered by Next Issue, a subscription-based all-you-can-read tablet app that’s hitting the iPad today after an extended …

New Adobe stats show encouraging signs of life for tablet magazines

Magazines on tablets, dismissed by some as a last-ditch effort to save a dying print product, are gaining steam, according to new stats released by Adobe. Tablet-magazine readers are engaged, have long attention spans, and most importantly, actually pay for …

So long childhood: GamePro magazine has been shut down

After 22 years of publication, popular gaming magazine GamePro‘s U.S. operations have been shut down by its parent company IDG, VentureBeat has learned.

Multiple sources within the magazine confirmed that GamePro employees, including executives, received phone calls first-thing this morning …

Tablet magazine publisher Zinio raises $20 Million

Online magazine publisher Zinio has raised a an investment round of $20 million, according to documents filed with the SEC.

Zinio lets magazine publishers who don’t want to build their own mobile apps distribute their content on devices such as …

iOS Newsstand is a success for Condé Nast: digital subscriptions up 268 percent

Condé Nast’s weekly digital subscription sales increased 268 percent since Apple launched its Newsstand feature on iOS 5 earlier this month, the company revealed Tuesday.

Newsstand is essentially a collection of iOS applications from print publications. Newsstand appears as a …

Adobe lets anyone create their own iPad magazine

Instead of just drooling over gorgeous iPad magazines, you can now create your own.

Adobe today announced Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, Single Edition, which will grant tablet publishing capabilities to just about anyone for $395 per magazine app.

The software …

Hands on with AOL’s iPad mag Editions: The Daily with stories you care about

Does the world really need another tablet magazine? AOL sure thinks so. The company introduced its own spin on the concept this morning with the launch of Editions for the iPad.

Just like Rupert Murdoch’s much-ballyhooed Daily iPad magazine, Editions …

HP launches TouchPad-exclusive magazine to promote webOS

Hewlett-Packard is getting into the magazine business!

Er… sort of.

The hardware giant is preparing to launch Pivot, a monthly digital publication exclusively offered on its forthcoming TouchPad tablet. Rather than running pure advertorial, the hybrid magazine/app guide will offer …