After almost a year of collaboration, the French ePresse application has been released on the iPhone and iPad.

ePresse, a digital newsstand, is the product of eight press organizations collaborating to build their own platform. In the announcement last week, the leaders stressed their desire to take advantage of the growing appetite for digital press. In doing this, they hope to create value for quality content on digital mediums.

The publications currently available on the site include five national daily papers (L'Equipe, Le Figaro, Liberation, Le Parisien, Les Echos) and three news magazines (Le Point, Le Nouvel Obs, and L'Express). Le Monde, another national daily paper, is notably absent.

Frédéric Filloux spoke about the project and its unique features. On ePresse, users can read summaries of the articles in all the papers for free. Users also have the possibility to see old editions of the paper and resize the text thanks to the inclusion of an xml layer. The articles can be sent via email without a "restrictive" PDF format, which prevents easy sharing on social media platforms. Each editor sets the price for his daily paper.

Magazines will fare better than newspapers in the struggle to monetize digital content, according to a report released by Pricewaterhouse Coopers. The annual outlook on entertainment and media predicts that newspapers' digital subscriptions will not compensate for decreasing circulation revenues.

On Forbes.com, Jeff Bercovici breaks down the numbers. The report forecasts that initially, digital subscriptions will grow quickly. For the next five years, both magazines and newspapers will see their largest revenue gains in selling digital subscriptions. By 2015, PwC expects magazines to take in $611 million from digital editions (they took in about $4 million last year). Newspapers have a much stronger starting point, already racking in $150 million from digital subscriptions last year. However, PwC predicts their growth to reach only about $331 million in 2015, which would not cover the expected print sales decline.

Romenesko on Poynter.org reported the year-end message of Associated Press CEO Tom Curley to the staff, where he says: "We have completed the second consecutive year of rate cuts to help members and customers cope with the economic downturn and the disruption as we shift to a digital world. And we have had to face the consequences of these challenges internally. But we are determined to resume our growth path."

The Evening Standard is to launch an iPad app this week, reported MediaWeek. The app, which will feature a range of editorial content including news, sport, business and entertainment, is the first of two: the second will be launched at a later date and will focus on the paper's Friday ES magazine.

The first app will launch this week and will be updated 24 hours a day, offering both content from the print paper and unique features and news, MediaWeek said. It will allow users to share and post on Facebook and Twitter. British Airways is sponsoring the app, and will be the sole advertiser for the first two months.

The London paper is the latest in a string of publications to announce the launch of an app. Yesterday, the Telegraph announced the launch of its free app, with Audi as the launch sponsor. The Telegraph Media Group is also said to be working in collaboration with the New York Times on a new iPhone and iPad app.