Time Inc. to launch tablet editions entire portfolio no comments
Time Inc. today announced that by year’s end its entire portfolio of 21 U.S. titles would be available in tablet editions. This would make Time the first major US magazine publisher to have all of its titles available on all leading tablet platforms, with product specifically designed for the tablet format.
Time also announced an agreement with Barnes & Noble to bring its digital editions of Fortune, People, Sports Illustrated and Time to the Nook Newsstand later this month, with the rest of the publisher’s titles to follow by the end of the year.
Time offers its print subscribers the ability to upgrade their subscriptions to include the digital versions at no additional cost. Digital-only subscriptions and single copy digital sales are also available. Four of Time’s most popular magazines — People, Sports Illustrated, Time and Fortune — have been available in tablet editions for awhile, and the publisher says it has sold 600,000 single digital copies of these. The publisher also says that hundreds of thousands of its print subscribers have upgraded their subscriptions to include the tablet editions.
