In the news: Digital replica editions still have a place in the magazine publishing picture.

In recent years, magazines have zeroed in on apps as a primary mode of digital content delivery. Still, digital replica editions have a place in a publication's overall circulation schema. Since 2011, the year after the iPad hit the market, digital edition circulation has been on the rise.

In a December 21 Forbes.com piece, contributor Bill Rosenblatt writes, "Although the vision for digital editions [in the early 2000s] was to be readable on a wide variety of digital devices ... the picture is quite different nowadays. Most of the original providers of digital newsstands are no longer around, and a new crop of providers has appeared that focus on mobile devices.... So, while no one was looking, penetration of digital editions has gone steadily and strikingly upward."

Read more of Rosenblatt's commentary on where digital editions fit into today's publishing world here.

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