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'The Daily' to Lead the Way on iPad Magazine Subscriptions, Skip iAds
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I thought The Times app was over priced in the UK at £9.99 per month (though much cheaper than buying it for 6 days a week).
Must admit the Times app is one of the better mag/papers apps i've seen. I won't however be subscribing after the free 30days are up.
Must admit the Times app is one of the better mag/papers apps i've seen. I won't however be subscribing after the free 30days are up.
Hard to say given all the academic studies on how non-news based TV shows shape society rather than the other way around. But my point is that Fox TV shows often lampoon FoxNews and the right. If there were some be right wing Murdoch-led conspiracy then wouldn't he be using the entirety of his media empire to push a right leaning agenda?
The Murdoch hatred is a little out of hand. His agenda is to make money, and that is about it. His publications and other media outlets go up and down the political and intellectual spectrum. Some just stand out more than others and people want to use him as a political target b/c they don't like the message of some of the shows on that outlet. Silly.
It does sound too expensive. Like others, I won't be subscribing at that price.
However.
Many are making the argument that The Daily will be the same information/news that is free on most news sites. There are problems with that argument:
1) We don't know what the content of The Daily is yet so it might not be free elsewhere.
2) News outlets are not getting the returns they need to survive from free, ad-supported online content. Publishers are looking for a new model.
If "The Daily" and publications like it get any traction, free online content will be removed by publishers. In it's place will be subscriptions like this one.
So it is very possible that the "free all over the internet" argument will not stand in the medium-term evolution of news publishing.
However.
Many are making the argument that The Daily will be the same information/news that is free on most news sites. There are problems with that argument:
1) We don't know what the content of The Daily is yet so it might not be free elsewhere.
2) News outlets are not getting the returns they need to survive from free, ad-supported online content. Publishers are looking for a new model.
If "The Daily" and publications like it get any traction, free online content will be removed by publishers. In it's place will be subscriptions like this one.
So it is very possible that the "free all over the internet" argument will not stand in the medium-term evolution of news publishing.
Rupert Murdoch
I really loathe what Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. stand for. The move to iPad news is a huge shift in the nature of news media. It's a real shame, to my eyes, that such an agenda riddled corporation is being given first dibs on the transition.
News Corp. have way too much influence worldwide and it'd have been great to see some of their influence downgraded as they move to digital mediums. A little rebalancing would have been good. It's a shame that's not going to be the case.
I really loathe what Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. stand for. The move to iPad news is a huge shift in the nature of news media. It's a real shame, to my eyes, that such an agenda riddled corporation is being given first dibs on the transition.
News Corp. have way too much influence worldwide and it'd have been great to see some of their influence downgraded as they move to digital mediums. A little rebalancing would have been good. It's a shame that's not going to be the case.
We know it's a news publication. We also know there exist other news publications, and unless The Daily happens to get exclusive news every single day, there's really no reason to choose The Daily over these other publications.
Though because it is a Murdoch publication, it's very likely they'll have exclusives every single day. It isn't hard to make news up.
There will always be free content on the Internet. Even if people have to torrent their news each day, they'll do it.
Greedy &(*&(*@&$
I'm excited about The Daily... but they have lost their minds if they think I'm paying $30/month for it... I just kicked Dish Network to the curb because I was tired of paying $1200/year for something I can get for half that through iTunes, Hulu and Netflix for half that... I'm not about to pay $30/month for content I can get through other sources..
I'm excited about The Daily... but they have lost their minds if they think I'm paying $30/month for it... I just kicked Dish Network to the curb because I was tired of paying $1200/year for something I can get for half that through iTunes, Hulu and Netflix for half that... I'm not about to pay $30/month for content I can get through other sources..
Do you half-wits really think for 99 cents/day this thing is going to be equivalent to any other rag out there like the NY Times?
I would expect The Daily to blow your mind. There will be more content shot your way throughout the day than all the others combined.
I would expect The Daily to blow your mind. There will be more content shot your way throughout the day than all the others combined.
But, as I thought we'd already established, The Daily isn't competing with just paper publications. It's also competing against free content available online. And free online content is also updated throughout the day.
Yep. A good example of a mainstream free online news source (and one that will be free for the forseeable future) is news.bbc.co.uk, that's what The Daily has to compete with.