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'The Daily' to Lead the Way on iPad Magazine Subscriptions, Skip iAds

The “quality” “journalism" of News Corp, plus ads in your face, for a mere $365 per year? Sounds hard to pass up :p
 
Which would you prefer ?

a) a 2 year subscription to the Daily
b) a brand new 32 GB iPad Wi-Fi + 3G every 2 years

Same price ;)
 
Right, so let me get this straight: I can either spend a dollar a day (or even a week) for content that has ads in it, or I can go on the internet for no dollars a day for content that has ads in it (though many of those ads I won't be able to see anyways, since they're in Flash).

Um.
 
Meh - I'm a 2 Starbucks-a-day guy and consequently pay $8.00 per day / $40.00 per week for something that I literally pee down the drain a couple of hours later. A buck a day is no biggie, if you put it in context.

Joe
 
$1 a day seems a bit steep. $1 a week would make this sell quickly.

Makes me laugh to see people write about having this info FREE on the INTERNET...why Pay? why buy any newspaper? why buy any magazine...cooking mags have recipe centers online, Photo mags talk about tech that is already revealed, or tips you can find online already. POINT IS people like to have all things right there for them so there is no need to search.
 
hard to imagine it working

I can go to my local paper or to google news for free with ad-blocking software, is there an audience for paid content with lots of extra ads somewhere? Then there is the problem that its Newscorp owned by a guy with right wing political views who is not afraid to skew the reporting to fit an agenda. Remember the original Apple Superbowl ad? Apple's not breaking the chains for the masses anymore, its forging them.
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5)

Flop flop flop flop flop flop flop.
 
That Ross Perot sucking sound.....

Don't you hear it??? Even though Ross Perot is a LONG, LOST, and GONE race-baiting, texas pee-bagger, you can hear his legacy in Rupe's EPIC FAIL here... That giant sucking sound... that's the life flying right outta Rupe's newest "carnival of crazies" being fronted by this sham...

99 cents A DAY??? NOT GONNA HAPPEN.... Getting officially laughed out of existence officially starts today...

See ya Rupe... go peddle your crap somewhere else.....
 
$1 a week AND it has ads? I don't think so.
Perhaps charge that much and eliminate ads and I could consider it.
I HATE being barraged daily with advertising, I am not willing to pay to subject myself to more. Besides, with content that updates daily and news stories from all over- that "app" is called DrudgeReport.com and it is free...

Count me out.
 
I understand nothing is free in life but these print/media guys/girls need to realize that competing with the internet their product has to grow CHEAPER not more expensive. $1 per day is more than almost any major city newspaper subscription cost and is about $1 more expensive per day than going to cnn.com etc.

I thought the idea of a $1 week subscription would sell like hotcakes and almost thought it too cheap, but 7 times that? I will pass and once again so will 99% of iPad users.

Perhaps AdAge is wrong, the $1 a week rumors were out there for months and months and they never leaked they were wrong which I would have suspected they would do if so far off the mark. Often major companies (Apple) and media would not want overly unrealistic expectations for something new and would have stopped it with a "leak" to a major trade publication. This is the same reason I totally believe that the new iPad 2 will have the "retina" like screen some think impossible... the rumors are out there and Apple's favorite leak targets like the WSJ and New York Times have done nothing to stop them... therefore they are true.
 
BJMRamage said:
why buy any newspaper? why buy any magazine...cooking mags have recipe centers online, Photo mags talk about tech that is already revealed, or tips you can find online already.
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You're exactly right... and that's exactly why I don't pay for any of that stuff. A search takes two seconds. If you make $10/hour, you make 0.28¢/second. That means searching costs you 0.56¢, which is 177 times less than it costs to spend 99¢/day on The Rag. So in order for it to be more cost-effective to order The Rag than to search, you'd have to be making over $1782/hour. And if you're making $1782/hour, you're making over $3.7m/year, and at that point who cares what The Rag costs.

EDIT: Sorry if the math's a little off, I've got a terrible cold at the moment. If anyone would like to verify my calculations, that'd be appreciated.
 
I get The Economist in print, in audio and on the iPad for $1 a week.

Murdoch can shove it.
 
Nope.

Though I'm very supportive of the idea of subscription based magazines on the iPad, the newspapers have a very tough hurdle to clear: News is free in too many places.

A buck a week would definitely worth a look-see, but once you've gone Instapaper, there's no going back.
 
I don't see any way they will l survive if they are really charging $1 per day. There are too many free new resources online... people aren't going to pay $365/year for this one.
 
Gee, I thought $1/week was pushing it.... at $1/week it's a non-starter.

There's just not all that much news to justify this. What's wrong with the NYT, Reuters, etc that you can read for free?
 
If you guys read the article, it is actually $1 per week. Don't know where people got the idea for $1/day.

Edit: ah, I see. I seriously doubt it though, that would be suicide.
 
You Newscorp haters are hilarious in your spoon-fed pat kneejerk responses. Newscorp owns FoxNews, yes, but it also owns (among other holdings) Fox TV, home to shows like Glee, House, Family Guy, and American Dad -- shows which are full of snark and jokes aimed at FoxNews and the right. Then there is Fox Studios, distributor of movies w/ anti-right tones like Avatar.

That is some bias Rupurt Murdock has allowing some of his properties to laugh at another. He really is on message. :rolleyes: Yup. Big conspiracy.
 
Chupa Chupa said:
You Newscorp haters are hilarious in your spoon-fed pat kneejerk responses. Newscorp owns FoxNews, yes, but it also owns (among other holdings) Fox TV, home to shows like Glee, House, Family Guy, and American Dad -- shows which are full of snark and jokes aimed at FoxNews and the right. Then there is Fox Studios, distributor of movies w/ anti-right tones like Avatar.

That is some bias Rupurt Murdock has allowing some of his properties to laugh at another. He really is on message. :rolleyes: Yup. Big conspiracy.
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It doesn't really matter. Which do you expect most people will take more seriously, the stuff presented as comedy or the stuff presented as news?
 
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