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People can now follow these user-generated magazines they like, just as they can follow other content on Flipboards. When people interact with their magazines, the magazine creator will get notifications. Flipboard will also highlight these user magazines in its content guide of topics that it curates.

In a reversal of today's content publishing model, print magazines pretty soon could start looking a lot like their app equivalents. "The next redesign of our titles will see them redesigned with our tablet versions in mind," magazine publisher Future's tablet editor-in-chief Mike Goldsmith told an industry forum this month. As publishers extend their print titles to iPad, they can choose either to repurpose the paper originals, which can seem lazy and ill-suited to the touch screen, or to custom-produce interactive apps with a native interface in mind, which is expensive.

Stats on digital magazine readers

gaming- focused magazine app that feels like a rubiks cube or trivia

new original content magazine in the UK specifically designed for iPhone

The Big Issue In The North, a U.K. magazine sold by homeless street vendors to give them a steady income, is launching a digital edition, alongside its print edition. If a customer wants the digital version street vendors will sell them an access card with a QR code plus one-off access code on it which will enable them to download the edition to their smartphones or tablet.

"Newsweek's rapid descent contrasts with more stable stories at competitors including Time, The Week and The Economist (half-owned by the FT Group). Analysts even predict that magazine publishers are about to start growing again. eMarketer, a research firm, sees US print advertising budgets staying steady, slightly above $15bn, between 2010 and 2016. Growing digital spending in that period will lift total US magazine advertising from $17.5bn to $19.2bn."

More of a media concern, but it could be worthwhile to seek out these apps in order to get the opportunity to create highly visible, best in class digital advertising for tablets.

ThisNext.com is a social shopping platform on a co-branded site.  users can gather their favorites from all over the web and magazines and organize, share, and compare with friends.

"The resulting collection on Lightbox, Time's photography blog, was "one of the most popular galleries we've ever done," says Pollack, and it was responsible for 13% of all the site's traffic during a week when Time.com had its fourth-biggest day ever. Time's Instagram account attracted 12,000 new followers during a 48-hour period."

Read 39 different magazines for $10/$15 on an app. 

example of a magazine, NewScientist, using neuromarketing to determine how the brain reponds to different pitches/campaigns

Personalized magazine, like Pandora for news.

Magazine using only html5

Airline magazines on tablets

Cool looking magazine for kids developed for iPad

use app to decode print ads outdoors, in magazines, or videos to see what is underneath the outfit. maybe use for loreal as another way to display products used in an ad.