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Flipboard launches its mobile magazines on the web


Laura Hazard Owen's avatarGigaom

Flipboard is making its custom magazines available on the web, the company announced Tuesday. Until now, the magazines, which Flipboard launched in March, were only available to read through Flipboard’s mobile apps.

Flipboard’s magazines feature lets users create magazines from content found through Flipboard’s apps and on the web, and it was a move toward turning Flipboard from a publisher-centric platform to a user-centric platform. Now, with Tuesday’s update, readers can access those custom magazines from their web browsers the way they do in apps, flipping the pages with the keyboard’s arrow keys or by swiping the trackpad. Below, for instance, is GigaOm’s Flipboard magazine “GigaOM Reads” on the web. You can browse through the magazines on the web here. Flipboard says that since March, readers have created over two million magazines.

GigaOM Reads

Flipboard’s web-reading experience doesn’t duplicate all the capabilities of the app. Users will still have to…

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-okelly/post_5264_b_3639551.html

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http://readwrite.com/2013/07/23/flipboard-for-the-web

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jul/19/nicholas-lezard-case-for-professional-critics

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http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/07/23/goodreads-added-4-million-members-in-4-months/

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/luxeco-living/dear-mainstream-authors-s_b_3626633.html

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http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/im-tired-of-reading-out-loud-to-my-son-o-k/

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