Kindle Fire Newsstand will offer over 400 full-color magazines & newspapers no comments
One area in which the Nook ebookstore has enjoyed an advantage over the Kindle Store is digital magazines. B&N has had not only a larger variety of digital magazines available, but thanks to the Nook Color B&N’s magazines are faithful reproductions of the paper versions with all of the color that readers expect when reading a typical magazine. Kindle magazines are usually optimized to be read on e-ink devices and contain relatively few of the graphics found in their paper counterparts.
The days of B&N’s supremacy at the digital newsstand may be numbered. Amazon announced today that over 400 full-color magazines and newspapers will be coming to the Kindle Fire Newsstand. To promote the launch of Amazon’s tablet and its accompanying newsstand full of colorful new publications, Conde Nast is offering Kindle Fire customers a free three-month trial of 17 of its digital magazines until March 31, 2012.
I am a big fan of the way in which mags are presented on the Nook platform. It remains to be seen if the full-color digital magazine reading experience on the Kindle platform matches what B&N has developed over the time it has had the Nook Color in play.
