Conde Nast today continues the rollout of iPad magazine subscriptions that started with the New Yorker, adding Glamour, Vanity Fair, Golf Digest and Allure to its digital roster. Each iSubscription will cost $US20/year, or $US2 for a single issue. If you’re a current print subscriber, congrats! You get free iPad access starting now, including a back catalogue of issues available for download. [Wired]
When Apple announced their digital subscription rules and locked down the iPad, publishers weren’t exactly rushing to bring their subscriptions over. And then all of a sudden Conde Nast, Hearst, and Time Inc brought their magazines to the iPad. What changed?
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.
I’ve been seriously waiting to switch all of my mag subscriptions from dead trees and glue to glass and bits, and it looks like it’s happening – major mag publisher Hearst is jumping on the iPad subscription train with Esquire, Popular Mechanics and O (the Oprah magazine) in July, at $US2 a month each.
If you’re an iPad-owning subscriber to the dead tree versions of Time, Sports Illustrated, or Fortune you’ve had a pretty frustrating ride lately. Namely: you’ve had to pay twice for largely the same content. Until today, that is.
HBO Go has officially landed in the US, earlier than expected! As a quick refresher, if you’re an HBO subscriber you’ll be able to watch every episode of every season of The Sopranos, The Wire, Boardwalk Empire, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Rome, that vampire silliness, all on iOS or Android.
