Wired is one of the most respected tech magazines out there, but they’re also facing the problems of classic media which now fights to find a business model that allows them to go online and get the same readers who pay for content to do it in the new environment. One of the suggested methods that everyone seems to embrace is the release of special digital versions, interactive in nature that add to the value of the typical articles published offline.

    Wired is not the first magazine to build a digital version specially designed for current touch tablets as Sports Illustrated did that a few months ago. In this case Wired teamed up with Adobe and used their Air technology to develop a special digital version that will issue sometime this summer and will allow customers to go beyond reading with options like rotating objects, contextual help, articles sharing with interest groups and an emphasis on a new kind of advertising (that’s I don’t believe till I see it). Of course, legacy bad interface design is here with small corner buttons and tiny scroll bar at the bottom that’s supposed to allow fast access to all pages in a certain issue.

    We also have a presentation video that shows a pretty solid and fluent user experience, that’s likely to be refined even more till release time. If classic media plays its cards right I don’t see why in the future we will all be accustomed to reading the press in the morning on a tablet instead on flipping a large newspaper. Wouldn’t you?

    Source: Crunchgear