Mag+ Unveils Its First Android Magazines

Digital publishing solutions company Moving Media+ has announced that its first Android titles will launch in Sweden on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, due to launch in Sweden on June 29, comes pre-loaded with five Swedish magazine titles, published on Moving Media+s Mag+ platform. The magazines have previously only been available on the iPad. 

Mag+ English-language titles already on iPad, including the acclaimed Popular Science+, are due for release on Android-based tablets in the autumn, says the company. 

Mag+ allows publishers to publish to both iOS and Android from one InDesign file. Mag+ has also developed an API to allow the Android sales platform to be integrated into a publishers own subscription system. this functionality will also be available in the autumn. 

“This is a great advance for the one-push cause, as publishers look to take their titles on to multiple tablet formats,” says Moving Media+ CEO Staffan Ekholm. “Publishers see that customers are prepared to pay for good titles on tablets, and they need to be where their readers go. Its a very powerful offer – to be present on iPad and possibly its closest competitor, the Samsung Galaxy. The preinstalled magazines, produced on Mag+, look wonderful on the Samsung 10.1 inch screen.”

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