The Times has sold 5,000 subs for the iPad version of the newspaper in just three days. Available from the Apple iTunes App Store, The Times costs £9.99 per month and includes digital versions on the newspaper from Monday to Friday and some content from the Saturday edition. The Sunday Times is not included in the deal, which in those three days generated £49,950 for parent company News Corp.
Meanwhile, the FT has seen 130,000 downloads of its free-to-download iPad app in two weeks since launch. Sponsored by Hublot, the app is free until 31 July, when users will have to pay to read news and watch video content.
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Saarek said on Thu, 03 Jun 2010
It's just a shame that it's more buggy than an NHS Hospital! Downloaded the app last night and then downloaded the paper this morning, went to work and started reading it on the train, crashed after 2 minutes when I went back into the app the paper I had downloaded was no longer there!
So at lunch time I go the the pub, download it again and start skimming through, the app crashes and low and behold the paper is gone again!!!
Now I've got the wifi only iPad, so what good is a subscription that I paid £10 for when I can't read the damn paper without having an internet connection to re-download the paper every time the damn app crashes?
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