Not exact matches
· NOOK Newsstand ™: Choose from more than 250 newspapers and full - color, interactive
magazines, delivered like magic to NOOK
Tablet's Active Shelf
on the Home
screen as soon as they become available.
As has been reported by Techcrunch, «Magzter is also working
on product solutions that better automatically format content from
magazines for small
screen devices, so that publications can reach an audience
on iPhone at the same time as they reach the iPad and
tablet crowd, but with a delivery method better suited to the smaller
screen.»
Magazine publishers and catalog retailers have been relying
on Adobe Digital Publishing Suite and InDesign to create the digital editions of their materials for some time, using the streamlined process to make print editions and digital across various
tablet operating systems and
screen sizes in a nearly seamless way.
The
tablet runs
on a version of Google Android customized by Amazon, so much that it looks nothing like it — a shelf motif is used throughout the interface to display the content at the bottom of the
screen, while in the middle, you can browse through music, movies, apps, and
magazines in a carousel.
One of the initial headaches for publishers of
tablet - based books and
magazines, especially where the Android platform was concerned, was publishers were having to adapt their content to the various
screen sizes, a fact that can only be exacerbated with the smaller Kindle Fire
tablet, iPad Mini, and Nook HD, as well as the growing numbers of people who are comfortably reading
magazines and newspapers
on their smartphones.
With the greater acceptance and growing numbers of people who have adopted reading
on a
tablet - sized
screen, the industry has moved forward to the consumers who demand the portability of having their
magazines and newspapers delivered to their smartphones.
The
screen makes
magazine content look great — the main limitation
on this front is that not that many
magazines are properly optimised for the
tablet experience and the additional potential it unlocks.
Research has found
tablet owners prefer to digest news,
magazines and books
on screen and not
on paper
Amazon's Kindle for Android has been reworked for the larger
screen on a
tablet device, where the new layout has been designed to offer better viewing of newspapers and
magazines.
The Xperia Z2
Tablet just doesn't make the most of all that extra
screen real - estate and this is why Samsung has heavily ladled
on Magazine UX over Android, with mixed success.
The
tablet comes with the S Pen like all other devices in the Galaxy Note family, and
on the software side of things, you get Android 4.4 KitKat with Samsung's new
Magazine UX home
screen (and, finally, a dedicated multitasking button instead of the now obsolete menu button.)
For those that need a refresher, the Galaxy Note Pro is a 12.2 - inch
tablet that features a WQXGA
screen with a resolution of 2560 x 1600, an octa - core Exynos 5 Octa 5420 processor (quad - core 1.9 GHz Cortex A15 / quad - core 1.3 GHz Cortex A7), 3 GB RAM, 8 MP camera with a 2 MP front shooter, 32 GB internal storage with a micro-SD card slot, Wi - Fi ac, Wi - Fi Direct, Bluetooth 4.0 and microUSB v3.0 connectivity and Android 4.4 KitKat
on the new
Magazine UX.
However, if you (a) like reading
on an LCD
screen, (b) are really interested in
magazines, newspapers, children's books, or Internet surfing, or (c) are looking for an inexpensive Android
tablet computer, the Nook Color may be worth a look, as it's snappy and seems to function well.
Update:
On May 13th Barnes & Noble updated the Nook app for Android to allow
tablets with
screens 7 inches and up to access
magazines and newspapers.
The
tablet comes with a full -
screen interactive view of your «library» content
on its main home
screen; touching the widget brings up all of your book, movie, TV, and
magazine purchases.
An issue of a
magazine, for example, could include a fixed layout version (print replica) for rendering
on tablet - sized
screens with a reflowable version for smaller cellphone
screens where the fixed layout would be scaled to illegibility (or automatically reflowed in unwanted ways if fixed layouts are not supported).
This can be useful for certain kinds of highly - designed content (illustrated children's books, digital
magazines, etc.) that are designed to be consumed only
on a larger -
screen device, such as a
tablet.
Sony's
Tablet S has a unique ergonomic design that is reminiscent of a «folded
magazine», as the review
on TabletPCReview points out, and it houses a 9.4 - inch
screen for those who find 10 - inch
screens cumbersome.
The custom interface
on Samsung's latest
tablets is a tweaked TouchWiz, focusing
on a
magazine - like experience designed with larger
screens in mind.
Readly is accessible
on phone,
tablet and computer, so you can access your
magazines almost anywhere with a
screen, and even download them for offline reading.