PUBLIC MARKS with tags ipad & magazine

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Marie Claire is becoming the latest publisher to seek an alternative to Apple’s walled garden. The fashion magazine has optimized MarieClaire.com for the iPad, giving it a Flipboard-like look that’s designed for the tablet. Marie Claire created the site using technology company Onswipe, which expects to roll it out to other devices as well.

This is the magazine re-invented for the iPhone. Socially connected so that you can share any content with your friends and family on Facebook. A new, intuitive control system that allows you to easily navigate to any part of the magazine with one hand. High-res photography, in-depth interviews, and original videos let you enjoy some of the world's best artists on the go. Also check out Letter to Jane Magazine on the iPad. Here is what people have been saying about Moral Tales:

MAG – is the brand new iPad Magazine by Designcollector Network. Its core team unites awesome iPad developer and illustrator Fiodor Sumkin, art-director Aziz Melibayev and editor in chief Arseny Vesnin. To keep its über-cool concept we won’t reveal the content, but you can feel it watching the “Work in Progress” video belo

A new generation of type specimens. Type Specimen is the first font viewer for iPad, revolutionizing the way digital fonts are presented today. It's an ideal tool for people who need to select fonts for projects - be it magazine design, corporate identity design, web applications, or book typesetting. Type Specimen is a quick and easy way to navigate the type foundry, containing over two hundred original font styles. Type Specimen allows you to categorize individual fonts, make comparisons, or see details of specific glyphs. All of this for free of course.

A personalized iPad magazine that gets smarter as you use it

There is no way around this fact: the first batch of magazines adapted to the iPad failed to deliver.

We’re tracking the performance of iA Writer with this wonderful app called AppViz. AppViz not only allows you to track your own sales—you can also use it to evaluate how much other apps make. If you have comparable sales numbers. My first question was: How much does WIRED make? Here is the answer:

“We’re completely in agreement with advertisers” on wanting better metrics, said Scott McDonald, senior vice president of market research at Conde Nast. “Our problem is coming to an agreement with Apple.” Mr. McDonald said Conde Nast has made “a lot of progress” in talks with Apple on this issue.

NUMERIQUE. Alors que le Syndicat de la presse quotidienne régionale lancera jeudi 23 septembre son kiosque numérique, permettant de télécharger trente-quatre quotidiens sur l’Ipad (pour 0,79 euros l’exemplaire), la presse quotidienne nationale s’organise pour proposer dès 2011 la vente d’exemplaires à l’acte pour les tablettes et les smartphones, puis des articles délinéarisés et des «packages d’actualité» rassemblant plusieurs éditeurs. Le Figaro, Libération, Les Echos, Le Parisien et L’Equipe ont signé en ce sens un accord de principe en vue d’un protocole d’accord de Groupement d’intérêt économique. Le Monde a demandé un délai avant de se déterminer en raison de son nouvel actionnariat. Baptisé E-Presse Premium et chapeauté par Frédéric Filloux, le GIE pourrait s’élargir aux news magazines et s’interconnecter avec l’offre de PQR.

Les différents syndicats de presse quotidienne régionale, nationale et magazine planchent sur la création de telles plates-formes de distribution numérique.

The launch of Wired’s iPad app in June was heralded as a new dawn for magazine publishers: the app generated 100,000 downloads, exceeding print single copy sales (which reached 77,443 in June, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations), without cannibalizing print.

print Redesigning newspapers and magazines to engage and inform today’s hurried readers. online Creating user experiences that reach new media consumers more effectively. mobile Providing cutting-edge ideas for mobile content delivery to mobile devices.

Ever since the iPad was announced, there has been no end of talk about how it and other tablets represent the future of magazines. As it turns out, this is now partly true. Magazines, in the form of apps, are plentiful on the iPad, and if nothing else, they’re certainly a new way to experience a magazine. The 7″-9″ screen is a good size for viewing mixed content and the touch screen makes scrolling through a magazine feel familiar and obvious, yet still novel.

iPad. Never have so many embraced a great product for exactly the wrong reasons. Too many designers and publishers see the iPad as an opportunity to do all the wrong things—things they once did in Flash—without the taint of Flash.

There have been over 3.8 million downloads of Condé Nast apps on the iPad and iPhone since the publisher began rolling them out. Over the past few months, Condé Nast has been surveying readers of its GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired and Glamour apps and has found that these users are generally not the early-adopters or Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) fanboys the publisher expected.

I just downloaded the Wired iPad application, and like most iPad applications (and most magazines for that matter), I found myself bored with it within the first 20 minutes. I’m sure the content is engaging, I’m sure the articles are worth reading – but I am stumped as to why I would chose this over the physical magazine itself, or their website for that matter. In fact, for reasons I’ll get into below, I’m starting to believe that the physical magazine’s “interface” is vastly superior to it’s iPad cousin.