Amazon has released version 6.6 of the Kindle for iOS app. One of the new features listed is:
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* Read your favorite magazines in a new mobile-friendly format. Initial titles include Food Network, Cosmopolitan, Life & Style, Us Weekly, and 15 others.
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As is typical for new Kindle features these days, the new magazine format is a variant of KFX.
Added: I tried it and lets you switch between reading the magazine page-by-page or by article content.
The changes are incremental improvements. Switching in and out of article view is done a bit differently and articles are more nicely formatted using Enhanced Typesetting. You can view a grid of pages in the magazine or in pages just in articles in Page Flip mode.
There may be other, more subtle, changes that I didn't notice.
The file size is about the same. The magazine I tested with, the May 1 issue of Food Network, was 81MB as a single PRC (MOBI) file in the Android app and 87MB as a set of 32 KFX files in the iOS app.