I know there are suppose to be magazines and newspapers available on the iPad, but I'm trying to find a listing of them. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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AFAIK, there is no single listing, but if you do a simple search in the app store on "magazine" you'll find a ton of them
There are different approaches to magazines on the iPad. Zinio is a reader app which allows for access to many titles:
http://www.zinio.com/ipad/;jsessionid=09F5C071980951AC76A413334DB99C8A.ns101-e03
In addition certain titles have their own apps, like Vanity Fair, People, Wired and many others.
Best to figure out which magazines interest you and then search for iPad availability.
I have to second Zinio and highly recommend it!!
I've been using it since 2004 and still have ol magazines from then that I can download on my iPad, iPhone or iMac. They have greet deals on subscriptions, I have a 10 issue boating mag or 10 bucks, 6 issues of iPhone life for 8 bucks total and a couple of weeks after Macworld mag is released the issue price goes down to 1.99.
Lots of great mags in Zinio. Other mags have apps like Men's Health. I know there are others like wired but I like having the Zinio app to hold all of my magazines.
The best I found is the "Daily" which is an app written from the ground up as a magazine. Most of the others seem to rely on PDF's that have been altered to fit or work on an iPad, and that includes all of the Zinio magazines. I get two magazines from Zinio and both exhibit the same characteristics. You have to do a lot of zooming etc to be able to read them.
"Wired" magazine is pretty much the same except it has embedded video in it which is neat.
"Daily" also comes out fresh each morning. It is like a Time or Newsweek magazine each morning.
"Wired" magazine is pretty much the same except it has embedded video in it which is neat.
"Daily" also comes out fresh each morning. It is like a Time or Newsweek magazine each morning.
It's not *created by* Murdoch, Murdoch just so happens to own News Corp, which makes the Daily. It's really quite a nice "newspaper" if you ask me. I paid for the whole year, and it's been worth it.
Popular Science
Has anyone here tried the Popular Science app? It looks like they've got a good price point for subscriptions, and the screen shots of the app itself look pretty good. I don't have an iPad yet (in the mail), but I'm tempted to give PS a try when it arrives.
Has anyone here tried the Popular Science app? It looks like they've got a good price point for subscriptions, and the screen shots of the app itself look pretty good. I don't have an iPad yet (in the mail), but I'm tempted to give PS a try when it arrives.
This is incorrect. I am an editor for a national publication that is also on Zinio and Zinio is required to be at a discount to the print subscription (and is).
--Sean
It was created with a lot of input from a guy named Steve Jobs. Guess you better SKIP Apple Inc. products too.
If you want an interesting take on iPad magazine publishing, go to the app store and download Project. They're definitely interested in pushing the boundaries of what a "magazine" means on the iPad.
I'm pretty sure the current issue is free. It was last week, anyway. Warning: it's huge, like 375MB.
I'm pretty sure the current issue is free. It was last week, anyway. Warning: it's huge, like 375MB.
The poster's meaning is lost to you.
thanks, never heard of Zite, just loaded it and I like it.
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It's rather ludicrous to suggest that Jobs is involved at any level with the overall tone and editorial views as presented in 'The Daily', which I believe is what KauaiBruce was referring to.
'The Daily' has the same 'content' that populates FOX News and most other Murdoch rags.
Been using Flipboard for a few hours and it is awesome! Can't put it down. Especially like reading Wired.