Would you spend more time on Facebook if there were magazines in your Newsfeed? The changing face of magazine distribution
via adage.com
We know the market for traditional publishing in under pressure so this could be an interesting opportunity for publishers.
Adage.com reports that Synapse, a Time Inc. division who sell subscriptions for many publishers, is collaborating with Alvenda, a company that builds e-commerce applications, to introduce a system letting Facebook users buy print magazine subscriptions without leaving the site or even their Facebook news feed.
It is anticipated that the system will be available in July/August 2010.
Adage reports that the idea for the application came from idea suggested by the Magazine Publishers of America.
What Magazine if any would you like to see and be able to read in your Facebook News feed?
