Google Play Sets Mags Hearts Aflutter

Magazines launch with heavy promotions

Google is making a run at Apple and other players in the burgeoning tablet market. And its new $199 Nexus 7 tablet, along with a host of content options available in the company's fledgling Google Play store, seems to offer publishers a lot of the things they were missing from Apple. 

With every new digital reading device and newsstand, there’s hope that the additional exposure will help magazine publishers dig their way out of their print woes—while also lessening their reliance on category leader Apple.

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