Flipboard reports impressive stats on personalized magazines

LINK: techcrunch.com ➚ | Posted by: Joshua Benton | April 12, 2013

TechCrunch’s Sarah Perez reports that over 500,000 have been created since the feature launched two weeks ago. And:

Flipboard says that now over 50 percent of its users are reading these personalized ‘zines daily. Some of these have been created by publishers themselves, with a few of the more popular ones coming from Esquire, Rolling Stone, Martha Stewart Living, National Geographic and others. Meanwhile, magazines created by users are also popular — TechCrunch contributor MG Siegler’s “Reading List” mag, for example, made #3 on the most popular list.

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