Time Warner, Conde Nast, Meredith, Hearst and News Corp. have officially joined forces to create a new way to distribute digital versions of magazines. Forgive my skepticism, but I don't think selling digital magazines will save publishing.

 

First of all, these guys haven't done anything yet. They've just announced their plans to play nice and work together. Those demos we've seen? Those were done by individual companies, so they need to figure out a way to make everything standard.

 

And just where will these digital magazines be distributed? On the theoretical Apple...

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Via:

http://gizmodo.com/5421538/publishers-join-forces-to-save-themselves-with-hulu-for-magazines?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29&utm_content=Google+Reader