Kompas To Launch World’s First Newspaper on BlackBerry Playbook

Kompas Daily, one of the largest newspaper networks in Indonesia, has now published a weekly digital supplement called Jendela on RIM’s Blackberry Playbook. Jendela contains information on culture and cities in Indonesia in the form of photographs and videos. Kompas also publishes a daily Editor’s Choice that will be of quality equal to its supplement published on the iPad.

Having previously published for the iPad, Kompas now becomes the first newspaper published on the Playbook. The content was created using WoodWing’s Tablet Publishing Solution by Serioustec, which made the content creation consistent across both platforms. Rikard Bagun, the Editor-in-Chief of Kompas said, “We aim to provide the best tablet media experience for our readers, regardless of the platform they are using.”

With the increasingly widespread use of BlackBerry in Indonesia, the presence of Kompas on the Blackberry Playbook is expected to increase the flow of digital information across the country. The PlayBook app of Kompas Editor’s Choice is available for download from RIM’s BlackBerry App World.

Besides its work on mobile devices, Kompas also claimed to have launched the first augmented reality newspaper in Asia.