Why would a tablet be better for magazines?
Time Inc, publisher of Sports Illustrated, has shown us a vision of its future on tablet devices: A magazine application that readers buy and download each week. Bonnier, publisher of Popular Science, has created a similar demo.
But I have to ask: if the magazine app wasn’t a hit on PCs, why would it be a hit on tablets? The same problem will exist on tablets: readers will be able to get their news and pictures from other normal web sites that don’t charge, just like they can on a PC.
So what if the tablet will have dimensions more like those of a magazine? So what if it will make for a better “lean back” experience? These qualities will make reading the same old free internet from the comfort of your couch a much better experience, too.
Web page designers will redesign their sites to fit the tablet format better, just like they created smart phone versions of their sites.
Basically, on tablets like on PCs, if you can get if for free, why ever would you pay?
