Apple’s News­stand for iOS5 was launched in the UK on Octo­ber 2011, and a num­ber of main­stream con­sumer mag­a­zine pub­lish­ers have released dig­i­tal edi­tions of their mag­a­zines into this mobile mar­ket­place, part of Apple’s App Store.

Future has been a pio­neer in this early migra­tion period – of the top 100 highest-grossing News­stand titles in the UK, there are over 20 Future mag­a­zine apps at the time of writ­ing. Sig­nif­i­cantly, Future has seen an impres­sive 8.2 mil­lion down­loads of free pre­view issues glob­ally since News­stand launched, under­lin­ing the idea that mobile devices are the key growth area for publishers.

Future’s UK no.1 mag­a­zine app for tech­nol­ogy fans, T3: iPad Edi­tion, cre­ated using the inno­v­a­tive Wood­wing plat­form; Tap! for iPad, devel­oped with Future’s in-house Folio soft­ware and the beau­ti­ful Gui­tarist Deluxe, along­side Good Food, GQ, National Geo­graphic and Empire have all per­formed well since launch.