A number of iPad owners love to read. They make use of their tablets for everything from surfing the internet to watching videos, but sometimes just enjoy checking out an e-magazine and using the reader to see their favorite content in a digital format. The iPad has many uses, but its biggest draw is as a digital reader. It also offers users online apps and utilities that are not available on e-reader devices. Magazines are now available on the iPad, and people are turning to them in greater numbers and reading magazines on iPad. Here’s a quick primer on these digital magazines.
Text-heavy magazines like Wired, Forbes and Time have been available on the iPad for a while. These digital versions offer the same content as their print counterparts except they’re delivered via iTunes.
Tapping through pages of text is great for long reads, and articles don’t take long to download because they’re not image-heavy.
Interactive digital magazines offer more than just text, however. They can give readers videos and interactive graphics that immerse them in the magazine’s content. A modern iPad magazine has videos, slide shows, music and other audio elements that make it stand out from paper printed magazines.
Digital magazines have enough text so readers can get through an article fairly quickly, but they also have interactivity that keeps users engaged with the content and coming back for more.
If you have an iPad, you can read magazines on it much as you do on a computer. The difference is that a magazine app gives you a more interactive experience.
Reading magazines on iPad is a great experience for users. The screen quality of the device is much better, and you can enjoy the magazine as it is supposed to be.
Benefits of reading magazines on iPad are:
1. Little subscription fee and no additional charges
There are some magazines that charge you per page, or per issue. But there are many other magazines that give you access to all issues and future issues for a small subscription fee. Some even offer free apps with limited access to a selection of issues, which is perfect for anyone who doesn’t like to read magazines regularly anymore but still likes to do that from time to time.
2. High-quality content
The magazine apps provide a top-notch viewing experience, and they’re very user-friendly too. You can easily find anything in an issue by using search options and can also bookmark your favorite articles to read them later on another device or at a later time. Some apps even permit you to save images from the articles and use them as set-up screensavers on your iPad – it’s that good!
3. Social media integration
Most magazine apps let you easily access your Facebook and Twitter accounts so you can share interesting articles with your friends and followers right away.
4. Table of contents feature available
Readers can easily search through the iPad magazine with the help of the table of contents feature. It makes the reading easy and fun. As a matter of fact, readers can go through an iPad magazine without getting lost.
5. The Newsstand
A lot of iPad magazine app providers provide you with the newsstand feature. Here you can find all the latest issues of your favorite magazines. Just tap the cover of any magazine and it will instantly download to your iPad. The new issue will then appear in your “Newsstand” where you can flip through pages and read articles. You can also search for specific titles with the advanced search feature or browse through the numerous categories.
A lot of experts predicted that reading magazines on iPad will grow further in the coming years.
