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Word app
Posted by lit doof on 9 January 2012 - 1:23pm.
Dear The Word
Apologies in advance of your having answered this Q many times before, but have you released or do you intend to release an app to enable your fine publication to be read on the iPad?
If so, I'm buying an iPad (if not, then I'm not).
Kind regards
LD
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Zinio
Please
Seconded...
...or at least something for the few of us with 'droids.
Android version
Also being worked on.
good news
.
It's being worked on
At the moment.
awesome....
I shall be picking up my iPad in due course
I got mine at christmas.
Carry on.
An aside
I downloaded the Guardian for Android application a few weeks ago. It was all well and good, but it wasn't massively different to the Guardian mobile website.
Which raises the question, why make device-specific applications? I appreciate the iPad has the largest market share, but that might not be true in 1-2 years' time: it might be the Kindle Fire or Windows 8 tablets.
Because you can't make device-agnostic applications
iPads, Android devices and the Kindle all have different requirements. In theory you can use variations on the same template to produce different versions for different devices, but they'll still be different versions.
What I meant was
Does it not make more sense to make a version that runs in the browser, like the Financial Times and Amazon have (with the Kindle store)? (Which also gets around the issue of having to give one-third of your revenue to Apple.)
I suspect it's more difficult to do, but it does cover more bases.
It's not the difficulty
More the fact that you're removing yourself from the biggest store available. For a small publisher, removing your app from Newsstand would be the swiftest way of limiting your reach.
Fraser, I will download your app,
when it becomes available, and fully enjoy its wondrous pleasures. But, I will never stop buying the mag. I will never get over the pleasure I get from unwrapping the shiny cover, putting aside the CD for later, and leafing through the new issue. I don't read anything at that stage. Then, later that day, the journey starts. By the end of the 4 weeks it will have been read from cover to cover but in the wrong order, great pieces re-read several times, gig ads pored over (even though I will never get to 0.1% of them)and reviews checked and notes made for future purchase. I have done this since the late 60's with Melody Maker, added the NME & Sounds in the 70's and on through to today's 5 mags I subscribe to. I have loved all of them in different measure (Danny Baker's time at the NME being my single favourite era) but nothing gives me as much pleasure as unwrapping a new copy of Word.
Blimey
New Tagline
"Word better than sex"
I'll take "Word Nerd"
thanks. The tip of my tongue was edging cheekwards earlier but I do love great writing and this mag is full of it. Long may it continue.
Putting aside the CD for later..
...with several square inches of the high quality shiny magazine cover hanging forlornly in shreds from the back of its finely crafted cardboard sleeve.
Said magazine cover having been ripped asunder and torn violently from its perfectly matched pair of machine tooled tungsten steel staples following the gentlest and most surgically fastidious attempt at removal of the as-yet unheard compact disc from the twin applications of industrial strength Satan’s Snot holding it limpet-like to the front of the periodical.
Try subscribing
It's cheaper, and the disc comes loose in the bag, thus sparing you and the cd cover the trauma you so vividly describe above.
Exaggerating for effect
that's all it is.
I already buy for a subscription for someone else and prefer to pay as I go with my own copy (especially since it's £64 pa to Australia).
Hear
Hear!
This is the
Best news I've had in a long time. Thanks
This is the
Best news I've had in a long time. Thanks
Hmm.... Double posting, that's odd. Sorry all
dunno about word app
but always on for some word up!
Just wondering...
... how electronic editions would work for those who subscribe to the printed edition. Early days, I know, but would an additional subscription for the new-fangled version be needed, or could something akin to the podcast situation be worked out, with the subscription number giving access to alternative editions?
The plan
Is for print subscribers to get the tablet editions for free.
Smashing!
Thanks, Mr Lewry!
Great news!
You've just ensured I renew my subscription - nothing about the content - rather iPad is the main medium I use for reading nowadays - just my preference.
So next question - will it be availble before my new subscription starts (clue: thats the May edition)?
Cheers
Ian
See
This thread: http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/new-edition-page-77
While we are on this
is there mileage for the Word in making use of Flipboard compatibility ?
I am using this app (http://flipboard.com/) on my iPad and really like it. What extra effort do publishers whose magazines are excerpted in this app have to make ?
I have noticed that I can add the Word in, and have done so, but can't really tell how the stuff that it points to has been grabbed.
Flipboard
Is basically a bells & whistles feedreader. If a publisher puts their content online, it's compatible.
I think what I was thinking of is Flipboard pages
http://flipboard.com/publishers-faq