IPad only magazine Rupert Murdoch’s The Daily, once described as “The New York Post Goes to College”, is now almost a go.
Launched at a Ney York Event this morning, it pledges to offer the best of traditional journalism, with the best of contemporary technology like 360 degree photos, and lots of fancy multimedia content that is all pushed directly to the IPad every day.
It’s priced at $.99 per week or $39.99 annually and launches today, astounding with Egypt taking the cover image. Team behind the new-age zine showed off plenty of that technology, including a magazine-like reading interface, letting you flip through pages, and a “carousel,” that gives you a higher-level view of the pages for easier browsing.
Daily also includes audio versions, with professional voiceover so you won’t have to worry about GPS voice, plus video overviews of all the content if you just don’t have time for reading or listening. You can share stuff you like on Facebook or Twitter and others will be able to read those stories for free via the web-but not all the contents, naturally. This site will offer App reviews and features with links right to the App Store. Also providing the sports fans full schedules and news updates for the teams they like. However reiterate that, the Daily launches today, and therefore the first two weeks will be courtesy of Verizon. In fact the updates are now available in the App Store.
Source: Engadget
