Only time will tell, but on first blush things look promising. Steve Jobs invited New York Times SVP Martin Nisenholtz to the stage to show off that newspaper formatted for the iPad's 9.7-inch screen. It looked similar to the nice, easy-to-read and navigate newspaper format we saw shown off on the Skiff Reader at CES, with one huge difference: color.
That means not only color photographs, but inline video playback as well. As Nisenholtz indicated, the display "captures the essence of a newspaper," but extends it -- finally re-imagining the daily periodical for "the next generation of digital journalism."
Check out the screenshots of what promises to be only the first of many new digital periodical formats as periodical publishers start wrapping their heads around the possibilities of monetizable content on a portable tablet device (we'll talk about what iBooks means for book publishers as well: Stay tuned). Let us know what other innovations you want to see in digital publishing.
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