South Africa-based print and online publisher Creamer Media has launched a new international edition of Mining Weekly for tablet devices, initially the Apple Ipad and the Samsung Galaxy Tablet.

Creamer Media CEO Kenneth Creamer says the international edition consists of a weekly roundup of the most newsworthy articles published on miningweekly.com.

“Over the past two years we have published separate email editions of miningweekly.com for three regions, namely for the Americas, Australasia and Africa and Europe,” says Creamer.

“The new international edition packages the top mining and related stories from each of these regions into one edition.”

“It will appear in a magazine-type format and the dedicated online reporters in Johannesburg, Perth and Toronto will hand-pick the week’s most important news items from each region for inclusion.

“Millions of people across the world are now using tablet devices to get their news.People are changing their reading habits and ways of accessing information and there is a move by large magazine titles, such as Reader’s Digest and National Geographic, for example, to complement their print titles with tablet editions,” says Creamer.

“The miningweekly.com international edition for tablet devices takes cognizance of this trend and allows us to reach a far-reaching global audience in a very efficient manner. In time we will expand this content offering to other tablet devices.”

The weekly editions can be downloaded from within the Mining Weekly International application that is freely available in the Apple iTunes store for Ipad (click here), of from the Android Market for the Galaxy Tab (click here).

"Obviously, the edition will also open up new advertising opportunities for those wishing to market their products and services to the rapidly growing number of tablet-reading business executives,” Creamer concludes.