Adobe DPS Release 20, Hearst Is All In for Tablets, Businessweek Wins Mag of the Year, Cooks Illustrated App Released, Real Simple Ruling Pinterest

Welcome to TFP’s weekly roundup of interesting and noteworthy stories from the publishing world. This week we’re discussing everything you need to know about Adobe DPS Release 20, Hearst’s digital strategy, Businessweek‘s award win, and more.

  • At its Digital Publishing Summit this week, Adobe announced Release 20 of its Digital Publishing Suite and the new features that are now live with this version. DPS Release 20 offers many long-awaited features and several enhancements, along with DPS support for iPhone, InDesign CS6 and feature parity for CS5 and CS5.5. We recapped everything you need to know about DPS Release 20 on the TFP blog.
  • Hearst is all in on digital magazines. In a recent interview, Duncan Edwards, CEO of Hearst Magazines International, remarked that the company hopes to reach “1 million paid digital sales on tablets a month for the U.S. by the end of the year.”
  • Bloomberg Businessweek took home the Magazine of the Year award at The Society of Publication Designers’ 47th Annual Design Competition. Businessweek’s competitors in the category were IL–Intelligence in Lifestyle, Lotus, New York, Port, Time, and GQ.
  • America’s Test Kitchen released the digital version of its Cook’s Illustrated print magazine, optimized for the new iPad, on Thursday. With guidance from Technology for Publishing, America’s Test Kitchen was able to create a product unlike any other digital food magazine on the market, by leveraging existing video content developed for its website and merging it with issue-specific editorial content to create a new experience for its readers. The app is available for purchase through Apple’s iTunes store.
  • Real Simple is leading the way for magazines on social pinboard site Pinterest. The magazine has reached 100,000 followers, far surpassing the next-most-followed magazine, Better Homes and Gardens, which has 58,000 followers. Pinterest has proved to be more than “just another social network” for the title, providing twice as much referral traffic as Facebook and Twitter combined.

This Week in Publishing appears every Friday on the TFP blog. Every week we compile interesting and noteworthy stories from the publishing world and put together a wrap-up to help our readers stay up-to-date. Think we missed something great? Leave a comment below and let us know.

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