Last month when Fairfax launched their iPad app for the Sydney Morning Herald, the only way you could get the app was to get a copy of the weekend paper as well. Well, now it seems you can get the digital version without killing trees.
It’ll cost you $18 for 28 days worth of newspapers on your iPad. It’s a pretty big improvement on the previous option – although any option that didn’t involve a physical paper would be a big improvement.
Will this convince any iPad owners to take the plunge?
[SMH iTunes App - Thanks Dave!]
Peter
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 5:26 PManyone heard of http://www.smh.com.au ? Works well on the ipad web browser, not sure you would pay for a subscription, but that’s just me.
Will
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 5:28 PMGah, 18 bucks a month? I mean I know that is less that $1 a paper BUT I would like to be rewarded for not using paper and for spending money on a tablet.
Plus im not gonna read the paper on my iPad every day. Mainly use brower at work, so weekend only plan would be nice.
Will
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 5:30 PMAlso this may be a dumb question but how did you get the date to display up next to the time on the status bar? call me crazy but im pretty sure mine doesnt do that at the moment.
David Laffan
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 10:17 PMWill, you need to jailbreak to do that.
Mark
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 5:54 PMI’d take the plunge if it was $7 for 7-day e-edition access — $18 is too much. I would be happy to put up with iAds to subsidise the cost.
It’s not that I don’t appreciate quality journalism – I’m a journalist myself – I just don’t want to pay any more than that.
I love the e-only edition though — I’ve been waiting for something this for a long time. SMH please come up with a better pricing model!
richard
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 7:41 PMhave i missed something here?
the cost of the e-edition is the same as the 3 day print including full e-edition. you would think a discount for not getting print would be in order!
Pancake
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 7:43 PMShit no
As soon as I see that table. I run. If i can go to the shop and buy the paper on any day that i please. I just want to do the same with a download. It doesn’t need to be any harder than that. Surely we could download a free app and then open it in the morning and see a nice big button saying download/buy today’s paper. Done! Too easy impulse buy. Work it out you dumbasses
Reactor
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 8:11 PMNot bloody likely! I was one of the suckers who signed up for the weekend print bundle when E edition only was not available as an option. SMH did not deliver me one print edition. No one at SMH could even begin to help me, ad I signed up through the iPad app. Hopeless, eventually I got a refund. Now that the E edition only sub is avail, which is what I wanted in the first place…it’s the same price as the print sub! Are they on crack? I will pay no more than $10 a month for the E edition. I would be interested to hear what others are willing to pay…
Phil
Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 4:55 PM$2 per week would do it for me. Or, I think I would hapily pay a dollar for the Saturday issue, which is all I usually buy in hard copy anyway.