I note this hasn't been mentioned properly yet...
DO NOT add the Newsstand app to a folder (even if pre-5.1 you can temporarily do so).
It is known to cause a host of possible technical faults on the device concerned, as iOS does not support sub-folders, and NS is essentially a special folder.
Don't take my word, please research yourself by searching around, and read about them.
Facts post-5.1 update:
(1) Even if you wanted to, you now *cannot* add the NS into another folder.
(2) This includes trying the work-around trick of dragging two apps together (as previously mentioned above).
(3) NS is a *special folder*, hence as iOS doesn't support sub-folders, Apple have closed the work-around.
(4) Pre-5.1, using (2) trick caused technical issues. Inc. syncing errors, and others you can find: Google it yourself.
(5) Yes, the NYT app has been auto-moved to be inside NS.
Other salient facts:
(6) Designed this way for easy accessibility reasons: all mags/newspapers in one place.
(7) Designed this way to promote digital forms of mag/newspaper media in the digital age.
(8) Designed this way to encourage users to *pay the content providers*: ie. papers likely to have paywalls/one-article per day access on their websites in future for non-suscribers to their app.
(9) Designed this way so Apple can get their commission too, thus encouraging device take-up (and lock-in, of course!).
Yes, it's bad if you don't want it as a folder on a home screen, but we're all gonna have to get over it or embrace it when better content arrives we may actually want to consume.
Although, the big negative here is all your content will be locked-into Apple's ecosystem.
For books/music/films, ie. more permanent media we all like to keep, this is a much worse issue (at least for those of us who care! Though music is DRM free now, films/books most certainly are not).
But for items like mags/newspapers which we generally throw-away much more readily in the physical world, as people tend not to hold onto them for long after they have been read; the thinking is most users don't care as much as they'll likely delete such content after reading.
And anyway it's a TWO WAY approach for subscribers on these:
- You pay to be a subscriber for the content providers **app**, then;
- They will also let you access ALL older content on the content providers **websites**, without any limitations.
