'Wired Magazine' Leaps to Top of Paid iPad Apps Lists

[sir Mudkip]

I pay $9 AU per issue for Wired to be shipped for my subscription (better than $11 in newsagents). This is why I'll be buying an iPad.

 

[whichweather]

the future of magazines

 

[Veri]

Profitable lock-in at its finest. Well done, Apple!

Dead tree copy? Needs only fingers and eyes, available on almost every human.

Web copy? Needs only HTML and (possibly) Flash clients, available on almost every computer platform.

iApp? One iPad + $1.50 for Apple.

Things will get more fun when competing pads come out and content publishers get fed up with having to create different versions for each proprietary platform.

 

[robanga]

Its pretty amazing for sure. Expensive yes, but when I compare what i pay in price for a magazine at an airport and the convenience of just grabbing it out of the air, I am not surprised.

 

[HyperX13]

I thought it was a one time $4.99 fee. I guess I am mistaken. With distributions costs down to 0, and ad revenues coming in, why not make it just one time fee.

 

[rhett7660]

I was checking out Zinio. This is the interesting untold story here. I think SOME digital magazine people need to be using the Zinio service on the iPad... but Zinio's content is disappearing here and there and reappearing as standalone apps by the publisher. When there is no added value... I see a problem. But, this Wired app? NEEDS TO BE ENCOURAGED.

I LOVED the Toy Story article. I LOVED all of the video clips and interactive bits. I loved the rotating Iron Men, and the interactive Mars planet (though I wasn't too wild about the intuitiveness of the controls).

If this Wired digital mag was JUST a big PDF file... it would be a failure, but unlike other magazine, Wired thrives on media. I'd pay $4.99 per issue all day long. I always saw the full mag in the store for $4.99, and could never quite pass the threshold of justification. I'll keep this Wired mag around for a good while though. My 64GB iPad can handle having it, and I'm really into the subject matter. I wish this was retroactive. Maybe they can make their back catalog on NON-interactive magazines available for $1 each (future "past issues" could be $3.99 without a problem in my opinion.

~ CB

I agree with both points above 100%. If it was a pdf without the functionality or the ability to do what it does, I would be very disappointed. I am waiting for the day when all the magazines look like this.

However on a flip side, with the new limitations AT&T is imposing, one would have to wait until they are attached to a wifi connection and not tethering to get this.

 

[hugodrax]

Conde Nast astroturfers are strong in some of these posts

 

[MichaelFitz]

You call that expensive?

The new iPad version of Wired is a bargain. I know that a fellow Aussie was paying $11 in a newsagents - I was paying over $17 for an air freighted copy from Borders. In addition to that I have run out of shelf space for the magazines (I have them back to 1994).

I would love Wired to digitize all the old editions to help me get even more wired

Expensive! Nope it's cheap, cheap, cheap!

and Wired is now wired - thanks Conde Nast.

MF

 

[Lazrhog]

Got it. Was hoping it was going to be a kind of "this is my iPad" show-off app.

It wasn't. It was a awful. It had a few token non-interactive animations, and a shed-load of adverts. I mean adverts !!?????? What the heck? It is very bad form to put adverts in an App that people pay for.

They have ruined the whole iPad magazine thing for me. I now won't buy *any* magazine for the iPad on the back of that....

 

[Redneck1089]

As people have said in this thread already, downloading each issue of magazines like Wired and Popular Science takes up a lot of space.

Does anyone know how to delete issues from their iPad? I can't figure it out.

 

[ChrisGonzales90]

Got it. Was hoping it was going to be a kind of "this is my iPad" show-off app.

It wasn't. It was a awful. It had a few token non-interactive animations, and a shed-load of adverts. I mean adverts !!?????? What the heck? It is very bad form to put adverts in an App that people pay for.

They have ruined the whole iPad magazine thing for me. I now won't buy *any* magazine for the iPad on the back of that....

What kind of interaction do you want? I say it's god enough.

As far as ads get real. This is just like their print version. The ads are also interactive.

He'll even print magazines have ads. Life is full of them (look around you) and you just have to get used to them.

 

[jo0]

congrats?

 

[Redneck1089]

Has anyone figured out how to remove specific issues from their iPad?

They take up a lot space and I would like to be able to remove some Popular Science issues and this Wired issue once the new one becomes available.