Adobe Adds Newsstand Support For Digital Publishing Suite

One of the lesser discussed features of iOS 5 is href="http://www.apple.com/ios/ios5/features.html#newsstand">Newsstand, a place for gathering together all your newspaper and magazine subscriptions (those that are willing to give Apple a 30% cut, anyway). href="http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/201109/090711AdobeDPSiOS5Newsstand.html">Adobe’s just announced that they’ll add support for Newsstand in Adobe® Digital Publishing Suite “ soon after Apple releases iOS 5 and the Newsstand application.”

The Digital Publishing Suite will allow content to be published as a digital edition for Newsstand on iOS, Android tablets and the BlackBerry Playbook.

“Digital Publishing Suite support for Newsstand will provide Adobe’s publishing customers the ability to deliver engaging content directly to the digital doorstep of subscribers on their iPads,” said Todd Teresi, vice president and general manager, Media Solutions, Adobe. “Adobe technology is fundamental to the transformation taking place across publishing and now readers will be able to easily obtain their magazine and newspaper subscriptions in one location and get access to the latest issue as soon as it is published, further accelerating magazine adoption on tablet devices.”

Before you decide to pick this up for publishing a new version of that old punk zine you worked on in the early 90s, keep in mind this software ain’t cheap. The professional edition goes for $495 and and the enterprise edition $3,995. Per month. You need some deep pockets to use this stuff.

The one other thing I really hope they can do is squeeze down the size of magazine files on the iPad. Some of them clock in at hundreds of megs per download, a frankly ludicrous size to download on a monthly/weekly basis.

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