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New Yorker iPad Subscription Costs $US1.50 An Issue

5:20PM May 9, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Conde Nast’s iPad subscription model for the New Yorker has been confirmed and put on sale, with the price being much cheaper than their dead wood version. It’ll cost $US6 a month (or $US60 a year), which equates to $US1.50 an issue. Considering the previous stand-alone download of each issue would normally set you back $US5, that’s a steal. More »

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Wired, GQ, New Yorker Subscriptions Coming To iPad

7:20AM May 7, 2011 | Adrian Covert

One year, 24 bucks. That’s what subscriptions to Wired, Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair and the New Yorker will likely cost when Conde Nast confirms their subscription pact with Apple in the near future. Single issues will probably cost $2.49. [NY Post via Wired]

Chris Ware’s New Yorker Cover Is Wonderful

7:32AM October 28, 2009 | Adam Frucci

It’s tough to not love Chris Ware’s Halloween cover for the New Yorker, isn’t it? [Why, That's Delightful! via Boing Boing]

Gadgets

The New Yorker’sTakedown Of The Kindle Adds To Bezos’ Headaches

12:20AM July 28, 2009 | Adam Frucci

Nicholson Baker of the venerable New Yorker decided to try out Amazon’s Kindle to see if it was really the future of reading. He wrote a whopping 6,300 words on the subject, but allow me to summarise: it sucks. More »

June 1st New Yorker Cover Drawn Entirely on the iPhone

11:00PM May 25, 2009 | John Herrman

Artist Jorge Colombo took about an hour to fingerpaint an intricate Times Square scene on his iPhone using Brushes, a $US4.99 iPhone drawing app. Now, it’s the June 1st cover for The New Yorker.

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Obama’s New Blackberry, According to the New Yorker

1:00PM February 20, 2009 | Adrian Covert

Either the New Yorker has access to super-classified government intel (Seymour Hersh FTW!), or they just possess a healthy enough imagination to have come up with this approximate sketch of Obama’s new and improved Blackberry.

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