Farewell, App Store? Netizine Turns Magazines Into Social Networks, Runs On HTML5

As e-book publishers and Apple face an antitrust lawsuit over pricing, magazine publishers are now looking into an alternative solution to the digital pricing dilemma: being able to extricate themselves from Apple's grip entirely. A startup called Netizine, makers of a new, tablet-ready social magazine platform for publishers is currently in talks with seven of the ten top global publishers, we're told, including three of the top five in the U.S. And what is Netizine offering? Only a fully functional, HTML5-based tablet application that turns digital magazines into social networks...networks that run outside the App Store, that is.

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