Mags on Tablet PCs
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on November 8, 2002 at 3:05:52 PM
Something interesting for a change. M$ wants to port hard copy mags such as Forbes to the Tablet PC. Electronic readers were becoming popular, then failed.
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To do this, Microsoft is working with Forbes, the Financial Times, the New Yorker, Slate and two foreign economic magazines, France's Les Echoes and Germany's Wirtschafts Woche, to build tools for publishing a trial set of electronic magazines that will available for download sometime in 2003.
The effort is an attempt to build on other digital publishing initiatives like that of e-books, a once-heralded business that has struggled to catch on in the mainstream. People have yet to become comfortable with on-screen reading for great lengths of time, and limitations in technology have hampered wide adoption of portable reading devices.