When Apple unveils its Newsstand application next week, many magazine publishers are hoping it will mark a turning point as they seek to increase digital sales through the new wave of tablet computers. Newsstand will collect a user’s digital magazines and newspapers into one place on their tablet, and offer a new storefront to browse and buy single issues or subscriptions.
Publishers see the arrangement as a big improvement from the status quo, which has individual titles each sitting in their own application, or on the web where they have struggled to charge for content.
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