Next big feature for iOS 5? Newsstand. Think of it as iBookstore for periodicals.
“We’ve now created a single place in the App Store that combines these newspapers and magazines,” says Forstall.
Unlike in-app subscriptions. Newsstand is a direct line between magazines and newspapers to your iOS device.
If a new issue comes out of a newspaper while you’re sleeping, when you wake up, that new newspaper is already there for you to read it. You can even read it offline.
Looks like you no longer have to download each magazine’s app. Apple’s brought them all together in one place for you now. Will Apple save periodical publishing?
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
2 responses to “In iOS 5, Newsstand Is The iBookstore For Periodicals [WWDC 2011]”
Now if this would support comics, or maybe a dedicated app for comics… the circle will be complete!