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iPad as replacement for paper magazines?

Jesus who pays for magazines ?? i get most of mine off the net for free (if you know where to look)
 
I have a number of magazines on mine some from Zinio, my favorite is Wired magazine's app, they have pushing the envelope as to what they can do with a digital magazine. I bought the first issue of the digital version and the magazine rack issue just so I could demonstrate the difference. Try this and be amazed at the difference. It's magical.
 
I use Zinio for most of my magazines and overall I'm very happy with it. I also don't really mind paying the same as for a paper copy as I find it much more convenient for me. You can make some good savings with the subscription offers on there too.
 
Totally, Magazines are one of the biggest reasons i want to get one, the Wired Magazine App is just incredible
 
Factor1 said:
I was blown away by National Geographic Magazine through Zinio, so I subscribed.

As I sit here and wait for the July issue (which has been out on Newsstands for almost 2 weeks) I think that I may have made a mistake.

Zinio customer service did reply quickly to my inquiry, however, saying they were trying to provide the best product that they could in a timely manner.

I'll give it another month, but I have a feeling that I'll be reverting to paper for now.
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I did exactly the same thing and have been wondering for the past 10 days or so where the heck the new one is....
Do you happen to remember when the June issue came out on Zinio?
 
Reading magazines is the primary reason I bought it, so far very happy. Only thing is I think the resolution could be higher, so the text and photo will look even better. I think iPad2 will definitely improve this like 3gs to ip4
 
lily69 said:
Reading magazines is the primary reason I bought it, so far very happy.
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Agree and absolutely that won't happen even resolution is improved greatly.

One of the reasons is, I can enjoy the feeling of paper magazines, the smell of printing ink and the fun of rolling pages when reading, that iPad and other ebook readers couldn't give ever.

Whenever, iPad or other eletronics devices are just expansion of paper magazines, or more options for reading habbit, but not the replacement! ;)
 
the macuser magazine app is pretty good, and cheap. its a british magazine so the only real way to get hold of it is on the ipad/iphone
 
I hate to say it, but I think digital magazines are the way forward, and products like the iPad bring it closer to being a pleasure. As a writer myself with a novel at #2 in the UK iBookstore Mysteries and Thrillers section, I LOVE paper magazines and books but with magazines I'm getting weary of finding that all the articles in the paper copy are stories I read three weeks ago on the web. It's not the magazine's fault, of course, but Macuser this month, I recall, had a story about how Apple MIGHT release a desktop trackpad a week after it was on sale.

Make all magazines as fun and beautiful to use as Wired or the Marvel Comics App and I'm sold. As for books, I still love paper (and they don't go out of date like magazines), but my next novel, Sequence, could well be released as an enhanced version (as well as standard ePub and print version) so we can pull off a few animated tricks unachievable in a print version. Then it's just down to reader choice.
 
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