Magazine publishers still not happy about iPad; iPad users prefer ads to fees

The New York Times has a piece summing up the unhappiness magazine publishers feel with Apple’s current limitations on e-magazine apps. Though it does not mention the “thou shalt not” that Apple issued to European publishers who wanted to give free iPad subscriptions to print subscribers, it mentions a number of the other points that have been raised over the last few months: high price, no reasonable subscription capability, and Apple’s refusal to share purchaser demographic data with the publishers.

The article also mentions the planned News Corp daily iPad newspaper The Daily, whose debut has been held up until Apple has the software capability to support that type of subscription. The price for this paper is expected to be about $1 per week, which does not seem unduly high for iPad content (though it remains to be seen just how much content there actually will be per issue).

Source: TeleRead