Here at Digital Times we are happy to read about the imminent return of Gourmet magazine, albeit as an application for the iPad. Gourmet, a once glittering star of the Conde Nast portfolio, folded last year after 68 years in print due to the global recession and fall off in advertising and sales.
Gourmet Live is the name of the proposed app and …the publisher is going to load the product with thousands of recipes, pictures and videos from the magazine’s archives as well as some new material. Conde Nast says the app will “be free to download, with registration required, followed by paid content options”. The publisher also says the ultimate goal is that the app will be available across a variety of platforms and devices.
Gourmet Live will also utilise Facebook and Twitter to let users “share their activities and create networks”. As a print product, Gourmet has 5.5 million readers. Other magazines in the Conde Nast portfolio include Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Wired.

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