iPad magazine declining
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I'm actually surprised that people are subscribing at $4-5 a pop. Also surprised that the iPad was able to gain 5% of a magazine's subscribers. But if you want to gain all of them....
As said many moons ago, the iPad is too expensive. its far from a new gadget anymore, the geeks who are willing to pay the price already bought one. its time for the prices to go down. i can buy a full fledged net book for $299. Kindle's device is selling like hotcakes at $149. Apple thinks since they can combine these two devices together, to sell a device that is a touch screen tablet for $499 and still stimulate a magazine reading economy?
You end up with a subscription base is only for the tech dorks who are willing to buy the device. Which probably explains why you have 3.5 times the amount of wired subscribers compared with vanity fair subscribers. In the real world, vanity fair has equal to double the amount of subscribers than wired.
It's time for Apple to come down significantly on those iPads.
- the 5% gain is blip. it will be gone shortly.Mr_Fantastic
- Well put. Likely, new iPad model prices will drop like their other gadget prices did.raf