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Many of the brightest and best publishers have beautiful digital editions of their magazines, but with one fatal flaw: they are exclusive to iPads.

We see this mistake being made time and time again, both with long-established editions, and fresher publications. Excuses from editorial teams are wide-ranging, but all follow a similar theme: that cross-platform publishing is too difficult and simply isn't in demand.

The New British is a hard-hitting documentary magazine which 'celebrates culture in all of its modern aspects'. Here, we take a look at how Issue Zero has fared in its first steps into the digital world.

Initially released as a limited edition print magazine over two years ago, it has since gathered a devoted following to its digital-only native app edition, and is soon to release a second issue titled Legacy.

Last week we hosted a tech talk at the Publishers Association (PPA) in London on the subject of "HTML apps, the way forward". I originally had a question mark in the title, but was told by the other participants Michael Kowalski, Founder of Contentment, the developer behind the Padify platform and Clare Evans, a Front End Developer at Kaldor who produce the PugPig platform to take it out. There is no question that HTML apps ARE the way forward, it seems.

We often get asked the question "Why should we make our magazine digital?" by membership organisations.

That is just what we aimed to address in our talk at the Memberwise conference yesterday, entitled 'Reinventing your membership magazine for the digital age'.

As the UK's most widely circulating wine publication, it was only a matter of time before Tesco Wine Magazine harnessed the power of digital publishing to reach more potential wine-lovers.

The wine magazine now joins Technology and Entertainment and the Food and Family Living digital versions of the supermarket's popular editions.