Adobe has announced that its Digital Publishing Suite, a set of tools for creating smartphone and tablet apps, will support the Newsstand feature in iOS 5.
Newsstand is an app which holds magazines for which the account holder has a subscription or has bought individually, and new issues are downloaded to the Newsstand automatically.
‘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.’
Using Digital Publishing Suite, publishers will be able to create files that are detected by Newsstand and automatically downloaded to its shelf.
