NYConvergence.com » bonus content http://nyconvergence.com Digital Media Technology News for the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut Tri-State Area Sun, 19 May 2013 12:05:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The New Yorker’s iPad App Comes With Extra Cartoons http://nyconvergence.com/2010/09/the-new-yorkers-ipad-app-comes-with-extra-cartoons.html http://nyconvergence.com/2010/09/the-new-yorkers-ipad-app-comes-with-extra-cartoons.html#comments Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:30:00 +0000 Esther http://nyconvergence.com/2010/09/the-new-yorkers-ipad-app-comes-with-extra-cartoons.html [Full Story…]]]> The New Yorker launched its iPad app today and continued to put pressure on Apple to find a way for magazines to retain their relationships with subscribers through subscriptions. The iPad app, which costs $4.99 an issue, has an animated cover, slideshows and bonus content including extra cartoons. Unlike most magazines, The New Yorker is about writing, not pictures, so editors sent employees home with iPads asking them to report back on the best layouts and type-sizes for reading a 10,000 word story, The Wall Street Journal reported.  

Writers  had mixed thoughts about adapting to the device, with contributor Roger Angell saying that if he crafted a description of how a pitcher throws a screwball, he wouldn't want readers to be able to press a button mid-article to watch a video, however, another writer, Evan Osnos, embraced the idea of linking to a 1950s Chinese propaganda film in his article about China's Tibet policy.

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