Flipboard: 100,000 User-Generated Magazines in First 24 Hours

On Tuesday, Flipboard released version 2.0 of its iOS app, allowing its more than 50 million registered users to create their own magazines for the first time. In the first 24 hours after launch, more than 100,000 magazines were created, Paul Katz, Flipboard's partner of strategy and development, revealed on stage at a Magazine Publisher Association conference in New York Thursday.

The statistic doesn't necessarily mean that users love the magazine-making feature, but it does indicate they're interested in it. Reviews of the new version in the iTunes Store have been generally positive, though some users have complained that it makes the app too "convoluted," or that it takes too many steps to create a magazine: Read more...