New Yorker Magazine Finally Figures Out Text, Maybe iOS Magazines Won’t Suck So Much Now

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The iPad was meant to be this amazing second coming for the world of magazines — a perfectly sized device with a beautiful screen, screaming for quality content. Unfortunately, magazine publishers dropped the ball, releasing apps where issues were hundreds of megs in size, and pages just enormous … [Read more...]

Condé Nast Starts Offering Subscriptions [u]

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Beginning this week with the New Yorker, Condé Nast will start offering its own subscription service, and are now on board with Apple's proposed revenue split. Between them, Hearst, TIME, and Newscorp, that's the majority of major magazine publications that have decided to play nicely with the … [Read more...]

New Yorker Gets App, Incredibly Surreal Ad

Much like everyone else, the New Yorker has made an iPad app (iTunes link), and they've made an incredibly surreal advertisement demonstrating it. Starring Jason Schwartzman, directed by Roman Coppola. Apparently it uses the same platform as Wired, so if you know what you're getting with that, it's … [Read more...]