Is the ipad edition free to paper subscribers?

Well done on reaching 100k. One quick question... Is the iPad edition free to paper based subscribers? Or is it offered at a discount?

iPad and Print

Paul, although the print editions and the iPad quarterly issues share similar content, the iPad issues are different products of their own. They provide readers with enhanced features and an interactive experience impossible to replicate in print, and they also include articles that have yet to be published in print. The iPad application features, for example, more than 200 images that didn’t make it into the print editions, as well as 20 minutes of exclusive videos. So, the short answer, for our print subscribers, is yes. We are currently working on integrating our print subscriptions with Apple’s Newsstand to deliver a better price to print subscribers, but for numerous reasons, this will take time to deliver.

But, the iPad issues will never be a free addition to your print subscriptions, as the cost model of producing a magazine app isn’t much different from turning it into print – what you save in paper and printing is more than made up by the additional manpower required, and our 30% to Apple.

Cheers,

Olivier Laurent
News and Online Editor
British Journal of Photography

Android?

Publish it on Android and you won't have to pay Apple's blood money....

Retina?

Is the new issue optimized for the new iPad's retina display? I downloaded the free issue, and the text was sufficiently pixelated to make it a less than perfectly enjoyable experience. It's amazing how spoiled my eyes are already....

Thanks,
C.

162 year old history?

I am curious how the BJP can have a 162 year old history as the first issue of the BJP appeared in 1854... Nitpicking perhaps but that what historian's do. It is great to see the BJ flourishing.

how about this?

The BJP globally markets its monthly magazine in such a way that it includes everything common to both iPad and iPhone issues, BUT it does this so that everybody can buy, not just Apple owners.

Instead of mailing a printed magazine, simply demand paperless subscibers downloading each issue to their computer hard drives to view on a DECENT sized screen at HD resolution. Thats a billion more potential customers for starters from Wogadogu to Cape Fear, all of us able to collect each issue this way . If WE then want to stick it on our iPads if owned, OK, but at least a real computer has a big enough hard drive to store HD portfolios etc. How many of us everywhere have access to exhibitions or books? I would suggest very few.

How many can view great photographs at high res online? Nobody can really because we cannot afford to give them away.

But paid to do so many of us might. And might is right!!