magazines in iBook Store

Until something is officially announced anything is just speculation, but there were lots of reports of Apple and newspapers and magazines discussing options. A few magazines, such as Time and Popular Science, and newspapers such as USA Today and NY Times, are approaching this via apps.

Doug

I know that I would certainly pay to recieve my magazines subscription though the iBook store.

Nobody here can answer your question, but you can tell Apple you want this here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

Hey, thanks for the tip on Zinio!! I'd never heard of that app and checked it out after reading about it on ur post. It's awesome!

iPhoNettie

Zinio? Awesome?

I think this is the worst app I have seen. The pages of magazines are out of focus while they load. It takes about 2 seconds for a page to load. What happens is this: you open a magazine, look at the screen, and try to focus on a blurry image or blurry text. Your eyes struggle for a couple of seconds, and it actually hurts. You repeat this every time you change the page. This is the most God awful reading application I have ever seen.

Well I don't agree. If u know it takes a second or two to focus why would u continue to stare at it while it focuses? Just don't do that. And does it really take that long to focus that it makes it "the most God awful app"? Geez. Not that serious.

It is that serious. Just don't look at the app? Kind of defeats the purpose of having it, doesn't it?

Hopefully somebody will make a good app for reading magazines and then zinio will die the death it deserves.

I also disagree. Zinio is fine for what it does. I'm sure it will be improved over time but for now it meets my needs.

Get it right. I said why continue to stare at it WHILE IT FOCUSES. It takes what two or three seconds? I'd say u have some bigger issues and ur just taking it out on this little bitty app. Lol

Just checked out the review for zinio on iTunes. 4 of every 10 people that rated the current version give it the lowest rating possible. I guess I'm not the only one who hates it, I'm just posting about it to an overly Apple enjoying group.
Thanks for the attack!

For the record:
40 percent of reviews for the current version give zinio 1 of 5 stars, and a huge 73 percent of reviews give it 3 or less stars.

Like I said. The app is awful.

Funny you choose the word "attack" when it was you who "attacked" my post. Why is ur @$$ so chapped because I happen to like the app? Get over it.

I have been reading on Zinio for the past year on my PC. There is no noticeable wait for the page on Zinio/Windows. However, on my iPad there is the slight wait at times for the page to come into focus. This appears to be more of an iPad operating system delay, rather than that of Zinio. Perhaps in time Zinio will be able to optimize their product with the iPad OS.

They just released an update for Zinio. the out of focus was annoying, and they have just improved on that. Now it goes into focus much quicker.

I have to agree. It is much improved.

I should have added that because of this thread, and the fact that it was free, I downloaded and only viewed the free sample articles. Haven't yet bought anything. What I see with a 5 or so freebie article is the same I can expect from a full 60 page magazine?

I subscribe to several magazines on my Kindle. I understand that they are limited by their lack of color. However, the iPad seems like the perfect format for magazines like "People", "Time", "Newsweek", etc. where color photos are an essential part of the enjoyment process. The iPad, on the other hand, with its high-def, color format appears to be a perfect format for such magazines. Why aren't they available through iTunes? Is Apple missing the boat on this income source or what is going on? I check at least weekly to see if they are available yet...