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iPad subscriptions: The Telegraph, Esquire, Popular Mechanics, The Oprah Magazine, Time, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, May 6, 2011 a 9:45 pm

A bunch of print newspapers and magazines seem to be finally jumping on board the iPad subscription train, including The Telegraph (UK), Heart properties including Esquire, Popular Mechanics, and O, The Oprah Magazine, and Time has somehow swung a deal to get existing Time, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated readers free access via iPad.

Time Warner Cable pulls channels from TWCable TV app for iPad

By chrissyboy6969, Friday, Apr 1, 2011 a 8:41 am

Time Warner Cable has had to remove channels from its iPad application, TWCable TV with immediate effect. We already heard that this may be happening but Time Warner has now confirmed this with a company statement. The networks that seem to have taken umbrage with Time Warner are Discovery Communications, Fox Cable and Viacom. This means the next time you fire up your TWCable TV application on your iPad, you will be missing Animal Planet, Discovery, TLC, FX, National Geographic, BET, CMT, Comedy, MTV, Nickelodeon, Spike and VH1.

Apple iPad makes Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2010

By Andrew Wray, Sunday, Nov 14, 2010 a 8:21 am

Apple's revolutionary iPad tablet has made Time Magazine's '50 Best Inventions of 2010' list. From TIME:

PEOPLE Magazine for iPad available, free for print subscribers

By Leanna Lofte, Friday, Aug 20, 2010 a 6:51 pm

PEOPLE magazine is now available for iPad. The application is free to download, but each issue is a $3.99 in-app purchase. However, if you are a subscriber to the print version of PEOPLE, you get the iPad version for free! Unfortunately, there is not a subscription model in place with the app. So subscribing to strictly the iPad version is not an option.

In addition to the content of the print version of PEOPLE, the iPad version offers even more:

Apple and magazine publishers at odds over subscriptions?

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Jul 28, 2010 a 1:55 pm

MediaMemo is saying Time Inc. is having trouble setting up their own subscription service for a Sports Illustrated iPad magazine app:

Last month, the publisher was set to launch a subscription version of its Sports Illustrated iPad app, where consumers would download the magazines via Apple’s iTunes, but would pay Time Inc. directly. But Apple rejected the app at the last minute, forcing the Time Warner (TWX) unit to sell single copies, using iTunes as a middleman, multiple sources tell me.

First, at the iPhone 3.0 event in 2009, Apple showed off App Store subscriptions for magazines alongside in-app purchase, but while in-app purchases are now fairly common, I'm hard pressed to find a showcase example for App Store subscriptions. What happened to them? Are publishers not eager to embrace them or has Apple not provided the mechanism?

Time Magazine Ranks the Moto Droid Ahead of the iPhone 3GS

By Jeremy, Wednesday, Dec 9, 2009 a 1:41 pm

Time magazine has made the Motorola Droid its number 1 gadget of the year while our beloved iPhone ranked in at number 4 behind the Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader, and the Dyson Air Multiplier. What pushed the Droid to the top of the heap of these gadgets was the combination of its Motorola hardware and Android 2.0 software.

Quick App: Time.com Mobile for iPhone

By Rene Ritchie, Saturday, Sep 5, 2009 a 7:37 am

Time.com Mobile [Free - iTunes link] for iPhone and iPod touch re-configures the current events, editorial, and entertainment aspects of Time's online presence for Apple's portable, connected platform. Easy to navigate tabs include News, Top 10 Lists, Quotes, Popular Stories, and Media, and you can choose to view all of those in either list view or a coverflow-eque Image Flow presentation.

If you give it a try, let us know what you think. Plenty more screenshots after the break!