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The Daily celebrates a year with 100,000 paid subscribers on iPad

by Mike Schramm (Feb 2nd, 2012)

One of the iPad's first regular periodical publications (if not the first one) The Daily launched a year ago. It's been a fairly rocky year. Originally, the Rupert Murdoch-funded app hoped it could get at least half a million subscriptions to keep its publication going; a few months ago we heard ...

Former Newsweek editor planning iPad magazines

by David Quilty (Jan 26th, 2011)

Former Newsweek Magazine President Mark Edmiston is planning to launch a set of magazines formatted for the iPad, according to a report out from Mashable today. Nomad Editions, a new media company launched by Edmiston, started releasing five digital weekly magazines this past fall: Real Eats, Wave ...

Despite strong start, iPad magazines not faring well over time

by Mike Schramm (Dec 29th, 2010)

There's good news and bad news on the iPad publication front. First of all, lots of iPad magazines seem to be having respectable launches -- Wired's first iPad edition did a full 100,000 downloads earlier this year, and other magazines have seen similarly large numbers at launch, as customers ...

Rumor: Apple's newspaper subscriptions could debut next month

by Dave Caolo (Sep 20th, 2010)

Last week the Mercury News reported that Apple is working on plans to sell newspaper subscriptions to iPad owners. Today, a follow-up from the Wall Street Journal suggests that it could launch as early as next month, and will include magazines as well. While Apple declined to comment, the WSJ's ...

'iGuide' another rumored tablet/service name from Apple

by Mike Schramm (Dec 29th, 2009)

"iSlate" isn't the only less-than-exciting name that Apple may be considering for their rumored upcoming tablet release. MacRumors has uncovered another possible trademarked name for the new device: iGuide. They found what appears to be a shell company created by Apple a while back (December 2007, ...