Today, Condé Nast Digital began offering subscriptions to the New Yorker Magazine at a discounted rate through the new app.
If you are a subscriber to the print publication, your subscription includes iPad access.
The information below is from the iTunes description.
Description
Enjoy a complete issue of the acclaimed weekly on your iPad each Monday—every story, every cartoon, everything in the print edition and more. The app comes with a sample table of contents; you can buy single issues, or subscribe and receive new issues as they’re released. If you’re already a subscriber, just log into the app to access your subscription. (All subscribers can also access the web archive — every issue since 1925 — by logging into archives.newyorker.com.) The New Yorker offers a signature mix of reporting and commentary on politics, international affairs, and the arts, along with fiction, poetry, humor, and cartoons. Founded in 1925, The New Yorker has received more National Magazine Awards than any other magazine. Notable work in recent years includes coverage of the war on terror by George Packer, Jane Mayer, Lawrence Wright, Steve Coll, and Seymour M. Hersh; reports from the front lines of the Middle East by Jon Lee Anderson, Dexter Filkins, and Wendell Steavenson; Malcolm Gladwell on “the tipping point”; Anthony Lane on movies; James Wood on books; Elizabeth Kolbert on the environment; Atul Gawande on health care; fiction by Jonathan Franzen, Edwidge Danticat, Zadie Smith, and Haruki Murakami; humor by David Sedaris and Andy Borowitz; and cartoons by Roz Chast.
You can store as many issues of The New Yorker as you like on the app and read them whenever and wherever you want, in portrait or landscape view.
Highlights from the May 16 issue
After Osama bin Laden
· David Remnick on the age of Osama
· Steve Coll on the making of a modern fanatic, and Lawrence Wright on Pakistan’s betrayals, with a portfolio of photographs documenting the roots of Al-Qaeda
· Jon Lee Anderson reports from Afghanistan, with a slide show of scenes from the country’s recent history
· Eliza Griswold reports from Abbottabad
· Dexter Filkins on the myth of Osama
Focus on innovators
· Malcolm Gladwell on the power of borrowed ideas, with an infographic guide to Xerox PARC’s innovations
· John Seabrook on snacks in the age of obesity, with a transcript of a speech given by Derek Yach, of PepsiCo
· Anthony Lane on Pixar, with a slide show tracing the evolution of a millisecond from “Cars 2”
· Judith Thurman on Alexander McQueen’s tragic talent, with a slide show of photographs made behind the scenes at the Metropolitan Museum’s McQueen show
Plus more
· Cartoon slide show with bonus cartoons (a weekly iPad exclusive)
· Joyce Carol Oates on Margaret Drabble, with an excerpt from “A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman”
· New poetry by Sherman Alexie and Susan Wheeler, with audio of the poets reading their work
· New fiction by Michael Ondaatje
· Richard Brody in a video about his DVD pick of the week
The New Yorker Subscriptions available:
1 month subscription for $5.99 automatically renewed until canceled
1 year subscription for $59.99 automatically renewed until canceled
SUBSCRIBERS AUTOMATIC RENEWAL FEATURE: Monthly subscribers – your subscription will automatically continue and your credit card will automatically be charged monthly as long as you remain a subscriber. Annual subscribers – your credit card will automatically be charged annually as long as you remain a subscriber. For all subscriptions your credit card will automatically be charged for another subscription period unless you change your subscription preferences in your account settings. All subscriptions will automatically renew until canceled.
Subscribers beware. It is a Byzantine process to cancel. I have spent hours, and still frustrated. My love of this mag is gone. Any help? Anybody?