Digital Magazines: A History Timeline

It can seem as if digital magazines have just appeared as an application on the web or Apple's iPad or iPhone, but there have been many attempts at creating such a medium going back decades. This history in the form of a timeline sets out the developments in hardware, software and published product in the UK, which tends to mirror developments in the US and Europe. A separate page also covers digital magazine software developers such as Ceros, Exact Editions and Zinio, who use a 'platform' to turn printed magazines (often from PDF files created in the print production process) into a digital format, sometimes called 'living magazines'.