Sydney Morning Herald新的iPad Apps今天发布

patrickzhu

今天安装了Fairfax Media集团的Sydney Morning Herald和The Age两份报纸新的iPad Apps。非常棒，比过去SMH纸质Digital Print的版本牛，强烈推荐各位新闻爱好者安装。

现在内容都全部免费（半年）直到12月，然后如果你想继续订阅的话，每个月费用是8.99刀。




Fairfax iPad app marks fresh way of getting the news
Tim Dick
May 31, 2011 - 9:36AM

• Download the app here
• iPad future is now: Age launches interactive app

Read all about it ... Peter Fray, Simon Dulhunty, Greg Hywood, Jack Matthews and Stephen Hutcheon at the launch of the SMH iPad app.
Photo: Lee Besford

FAIRFAX MEDIA hopes The Sydney Morning Herald's new iPad application released today will give tablet users a new way of getting news, and help the company change the way it pays for its reporting.
The app was launched at a function at the Ivy in the city last night, with a six-month free period paid for by a sponsor. From December, readers will be charged $8.99 a month. Those who subscribe to the print edition will be given a discount which is yet to be determined. The Age gets a similar app, and both are available from wherever readers want to get it, including interstate and overseas.
Fairfax Media's chief executive, Greg Hywood, said the app was a core part of the company as it built a digital future around its trusted journalism.
''For the first time we have a digital experience that offers the same deep, immersive and highly engaging experience that we have had in print for two centuries,'' he said.
The metropolitan digital publisher of Fairfax, Jane Huxley, said it had taken its time to build the app to ask readers what they wanted to create a "world class" app, which offered "the best of print, the best of online".
Readers can share articles via social media, save them to read later and leave comments, as well as watch videos and picture galleries, and download weekly sections and magazines. It is a "live" app, with news updated during the day, while sport comes with live scores and business with stock exchange figures.
Jack Matthews, the chief executive of metropolitan media at Fairfax, said the lengthy free period was partly to get as much reader reaction as possible, and allow the company to rebuild its economics of publishing "from the ground up".
He said the business was going to change because "it has to change", a reference to the wider challenges in newspaper publishing where people are increasingly getting their news online, where readers do not pay and advertising revenues do not offset those lost from print.
Fairfax is unlikely to follow News Corp in Britain and build a solid pay wall around its main news websites, but Mr Matthews has foreshadowed charging for some online access, or asking people for information in return for access, while keeping a lot of material free. That coming change is sparked by the arrival of the app.
"It will be one of the very first times you'll see something like this anywhere in the world,'' he said. "I hope our commercial side will find a way to get excited about this, because at the end of the day we have to be able to make money as well." That was a "trickier equation", as readers would not pay to read a story if they could get it free online or in the paper.
This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/ipad/fairfax-ipad-app-marks-fresh-way-of-getting-the-news-20110531-1fdj0.html

dootbear

早上装了。。。 不错 ！！

原来我买的ipad版是报纸版的复印。

新的这一份是真正的 ipad版， 可以随时更新， 和放大 新闻。。。

以后可以两份交叉来看 ！！

呵呵.。。

patrickzhu

的确，是真正的iPad版本。

wulinxiaoxiao

装个看看

Martin_2F

good！

wdmznzd

似乎不错，但是带广告，付费以后是不是没有广告？

dootbear

binggo， 你有下载吗 ？？
值得推荐 ！！

dootbear

原帖由 wdmznzd 于 2011-6-1 07:01 发表
似乎不错，但是带广告，付费以后是不是没有广告？

对， 有一些广告弹出来，不过， 现在免费， 算是做得很好了。

atm

原来买红妹之前贴的是纸版哦

dootbear

原帖由 atm 于 2011-6-1 07:35 发表
原来买红妹之前贴的是纸版哦

没错， 之前 SMH 推出的 ipad 版 是 将整一份 印刷版的报纸拷贝，然后做成可以给 ipad看。

旧版的也有旧版的好处。

旧版是一次过把整一份报纸一次过下载下来。不用上网也可以看报纸。  特别是 如果 ipad 不是 3G 版的或者到外面某些地方没有 3g 信号 就很有用。

patrickzhu

按照新闻里的暗示，估计12月开始收费以后，过去Digital Print版本的用户可以有很大的折扣。

dootbear

原帖由 patrickzhu 于 2011-6-1 07:56 发表
按照新闻里的暗示，估计12月开始收费以后，过去Digital Print版本的用户可以有很大的折扣。

不知道 SMH 会怎样处理我这些定了 Digital Print版的客户， 可不可以给一个价钱，两份都有呢 ？

不然， 我还是要Digital Print版。

patrickzhu

估计两个都有大折扣。

Digital Print现在多少钱一个月？

chychychy

感谢分享！

dootbear

原帖由 patrickzhu 于 2011-6-1 08:06 发表
估计两个都有大折扣。

Digital Print现在多少钱一个月？

很便宜， 我是定了周末3天的印刷版报纸送到家里， 再加上每天的 ipad digital print 版， 总共18块一个月。

patrickzhu

真不贵。

dootbear

原帖由 patrickzhu 于 2011-6-1 08:32 发表
真不贵。

如果你家里/朋友有在读的大学生， 可以搞到更便宜的。。。好像大概 半年60块 每天印刷版报纸 + ipad digital print 版。