iPad News: News Corp's The Daily Coming to iPad January 17

Posted Dec 24, 2010 at 11:48AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: iPad News Tags: apple, ios, news, tablet

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News Corp’s iPad-only publication The Daily was expected to launch this month, but new reports are pointing to January 17 as the debut date. Since the rumor comes from another News Corp site, All Things D, I’m inclined to believe it. The Daily will come equipped with plenty of videos and multimedia goodies including a mysterious 3D effect. A weekly subscription will be $.99, with a new edition appearing on the user’s iPad each morning. The Daily was created in partnership with Apple, and is expected to be the first to use a new push subscription service that will allow iTunes to do recurring billing for newspapers and magazines. This is something totally new for Apple, which so far has only allowed publishers to sell individual copies of their publications via iTunes. The delay in launching The Daily may have been caused in part by problems with implementing the subscription billing service. This could also explain why we haven’t yet seen the upgrade iOS 4.3, which was supposed to debut in December and enable subscriptions on iTunes.

News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch has already blown his chance to launch the first iPad-only publication, since Virgin’s Richard Branson beat him to the punch last month with his Project magazine. The launch of a subscription service for the iPad has major implications for the struggling publishing industry. Publishers have been negotiating with Apple for months over how to offer subscriptions through iTunes, but have clashed over money and control. If The Daily turns out to be a major moneymaker, other periodical publishers will have more impetus to present their publications on iPad, even if the deal isn’t exactly to their liking.

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