http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/ Engadget Comments for WSJ on iPad for $17.99 a month, magazines to be at or near newsstand prices? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/
Something like wired magazine is great, but just a normal newspaper with 0 interaction is pretty lame... You gotta be a tree huger to prefer this option.]]>Mar 25th 2010 4:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/Mar 25th 2010 4:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/
]]>Mar 25th 2010 4:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/yea true, However, I'm loving the iPad because right now, pirating books it a total hassle. You can almost never find what you want. After this thing comes out and someone cracks the DRM, it's gonna be AMAZING.]]>Mar 25th 2010 5:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/
but you still have to cry till your eyes bleed to read a book or a newspaper for more than an hour.]]>Mar 25th 2010 5:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/i my self have no problem in reading a pdf for hours on my pc (i do it every day) but it is a no brainer that the kindle is more "eye friendly" than some lcd screen..]]>Mar 25th 2010 6:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/Mar 25th 2010 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/The trouble is that right now you can get a WSJ subscription for online content only for half the price... Essentially, just by using the iPad you are paying twice as much for almost the same experience.

Also, any word on things like educational discounts? That would be nice!]]>Mar 25th 2010 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/
Not sure if you have a job. Doubtful. But let's go with this. Have a word with your boss ( or is it team leader?), tell him they should I've all their burgers away for free, and plaster the place with advertising instead. They should be able to cover their overheads, and the massive increase in custom should help him get better rates, and pay his staff more. By my estimation, you should be in for a pay increase approaching 50%. Sounds good, eh?]]>Mar 25th 2010 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/
$17.99/month for iPad WSJ subscription
-or-
$1.99/week (roughly $8.50/month) for the normal WSJ online subscription which I can use on ANY internet connected device, including the web browser on the iPad

I can understand a desire for iPad-formatted content, but they are asking an almost 100% premium over the normal online-only subscription.]]>Mar 25th 2010 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/It was a long time ago but I still remember feeling that sharp pain every time I saw the prices of textbooks while I was in university. I bet prices are even worse now. With the cost of education and books increasing, I think students will love the idea of pirating digital textbooks so they can afford to umm... I don't know, feed themselves~

I used to really respect professors who went out of their way to assign affordable textbooks for their classes.]]>Mar 25th 2010 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/
I'd argue that a lot of people pirate things because they don't agree with the price. Is that morally OK? I don't know. But 20 bucks a month for a god damn newspaper subscription? Who even reads a newspaper when they have an RSS feeder?

$20 is:

Tank of gas
Food for four days
2 movies
month of wow
a third of my phone bill
75% of my broadband cost

So many things I could be paying for instead of an "ipad formatted" newspaper. People buy things that are worth the monet.]]>Mar 25th 2010 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/
Brent the Ipad from what i had read in the web is going to be Epub(meaning DRM free) heres a quote from Andy Ihnatko of the chicago sun time

"2) iBooks will read any ePub-formatted ebook, not just commercial content purchased from Apple's iBookstore.

It's stated in this passage from the page about iBooks:

The iBooks app uses the ePub format — the most popular open book format in the world. That makes it easy for publishers to create iBooks versions of your favorite reads. And you can add free ePub titles to iTunes and sync them to the iBooks app on your iPad.
Of course, this could mean many different things. It seems to say that you can add any arbitrary ePub-formatted eBook to your iBook library. I doubt that this also means you can include any DRM'ed content (like the ubiquitous "ePub wrapped in Adobe Digital Editions DRM" found on other e-bookstores.

But this is a huge win for iBooks and the iPad. Building your own ePub-formatted ebooks is simple, and it immediately opens the iPad to hundreds of thousands of free titles available for the downloading. It's a particularly swift blow against the Amazon Kindle, which as yet has no ePub support. ePub is indeed the most popular open book format available and in the year 2010, any ebook reader that wants to be taken seriously is going to have to support it natively."]]>Mar 25th 2010 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/Mar 25th 2010 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/Mar 25th 2010 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/Mar 25th 2010 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/
People who subscribe to several magazines yet who wind up with dozens of linear feet of several years of past issues will appreciate even the most basic digital version as long as its easy to use and is searchable so you can fine past articles. Food magazines come to mind. If they can advance on that I say all the better.]]>Mar 25th 2010 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/Mar 25th 2010 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/
Or you might just be a busy professional who needs the best information possible at your fingertips and who doesn’t have time to scour the internet 24/7 to cobble together their news just to save a few bucks. Time is a luxury that many professionals don;t have. But they do have money so they will gladly pay someone else to bring the news to them in a concise and easy to understand way.

The WSJ never was and never will be meant to appeal to the Engadget forum posting demographic so its not surprising that many people here don't get the appeal. I don't need a subscription to the WSJ but i understand its appeal. There are magazines and professional journals I will gladly pay to have delivered to my iPad.]]>Mar 25th 2010 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/
I'd argue that 95% of people don't care about the price - they'd pirate if it was 50 cents.]]>Mar 25th 2010 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/Mar 25th 2010 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/
So, for a 35% discount, you can get both the PRINT and the WEB versions instead of the iPad version!

What are they thinking?
]]>Mar 25th 2010 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/Mar 25th 2010 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://bit.ly/scrutiny-apple-ipad-view]]>Mar 26th 2010 2:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/
Um, I think he was referring to a cell phone bill, not a landline....]]>Mar 26th 2010 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/I can't wait to jailbreak my iPad. $500 for thousands of free apps,ebooks, music and videos? HELL YEAH :)]]>Mar 28th 2010 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/
We didn't ask for you to meet us in the middle, just to actually give us some kind of break rather than hogging all the extras for yourself. ]]>Mar 25th 2010 4:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/
Many WSJ fans might be happy about this price but most people will shrug it off as too expensive. Make it cheap though, and people will buy it to try it or START reading newspaper- which is the goal WSJ needs to happen.

I might very well try reading Esquire because of it's low price model, Men's health is a little steep and may only buy once in a while if I really feel like I want what's in that particular issue.

If publisher's relax their death grip on prices and price their publications that users are comfortable with (seems to be $1.99 - $3.99) they could actually GROW in business rather than shrink and possibly die.]]>Mar 25th 2010 4:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/
Don't forget that Apple often discount itunes cards. Have received discounts of up to 50% (in Australia) on top ups. If you can take advantage of this the subscription price may not be that bad]]>Mar 25th 2010 5:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/
WSJ isn't the exactly the first thing young people would read in the morning regardless of subscription price. I think their pricing is to stay competitive to print and to cater to certain investor and professional demographics. ]]>Mar 25th 2010 5:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/
At $17.99 a month I'd have to get subscription to a lot more than WSJ. Maybe if they all got together and gave me a NYT, Newsweek, WSJ, and Economist for $17.99 a month they'd have a deal.

As it is getting a single paper every morning just isn't worth that money to me.]]>Mar 25th 2010 5:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/Mar 25th 2010 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/
$2 per month doesn't pay the salary of the highly-trained reporters and editors working for them. It'd be a recipe for disaster, as once you set the price that low, people expect it to always be that low, and then you die off from lack of revenue instead of lack of subscribers.

People need to wake up and realize that this honeymoon period of not paying for news is going to have a rough end when subscribers to the physical product die out over the next 20 years.]]>Mar 25th 2010 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/Mar 25th 2010 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/
Which is why these businesses need to start looking at different business models. The old one isn't going to work for my generation. We don't sit down and read the news paper. Should we? Probably, but fact of the matter is we don't. We also won't pay this amount of money for a digitally distributed copy of something. With this model, the only thing that WSJ really has to pay for is the writing staff. They no longer have to pay to print this stuff, pay the people that will print it, etc.

And $2 won't pay for those writers? Have you SEEN the amount of money good app dev. have been able to make?]]>Mar 25th 2010 11:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/Mar 25th 2010 4:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/Mar 25th 2010 4:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/A few KB up to a few MB. Not very much.]]>Mar 25th 2010 4:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/Mar 25th 2010 4:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/I expect those to be the exception to most publications.even still, I don't see them going above 50MB. Which is very large for a publication.]]>Mar 25th 2010 4:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/Mar 25th 2010 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/You guys are truly dinosaurs! You are just too stupid to figure out why you are going broke. $4.99 for a digital version of your mag? Seriously? Thanks for the attempted gouge, but I hope you fail miserably. Welcome to the new world, give it away like Google and make money in advertising, or fail! I will be a day one owner of 2 iPads and will never help support this kind of crap.
Thanks]]>Mar 25th 2010 4:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/I'm lost, do I give you a + or a - ?

I was so close to giving you a plus but then you ended it on a minus! LOL]]>Mar 25th 2010 4:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/
Well, Apple "helped" the publishers with their pricing.

ebooks for Kindle were selling for $9.99. Then, Apple announced 13-15$ ebooks for the iPad. Lots of publishers quickly followed suit and forced Amazon to sell Kindle ebooks at those higher prices.]]>Mar 25th 2010 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/Mar 25th 2010 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/Mar 25th 2010 4:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/
Appulous is long gone.

apptrackr is where the pirates dock their ships]]>Mar 25th 2010 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/Hulu will turn subscription soon, and not because of Apple, but because they're not doing well financially. By "not doing well" it mean losing money or it could mean not making enough (I'm guessing the latter.) Either way, Hulu will go mobile with subscription. The iPad might be the device they test it on, or it might not. If Hulu charges tho- don't expect Apple to be the sole cause of it.]]>Mar 25th 2010 4:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/
Why are these companies now trying to still charge us the same amount of money when they no longer have to pay for the printing and shipping of these virtual magazines?

You pay for Photoshop and Illustrator designs or whatever else they use, yes ... but not printing/shipping. I'm sure they have to pay Apple for something, but it's the circulation/viewership that gives them the most revenue (just like for TV programming).

You can now do animated ads in your virtual magazines (so they'll get more attention and hence ... more money). Magazines show Product Ads. Readers pay for Products seen in Ads. Product companies pay for Ads to Magazine Companies. Don't be greedy or we'll just as easily go to our internet browser.]]>Mar 25th 2010 4:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/wsj-on-ipad-17-99-a-month-magazines-to-be-at-or-near-newsstand/
Silly ignorant consumer. Price doesn't depend on their costs, but what you are willing to pay. Go look at Apple and their profit margins.

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