Comments on: Hands-On: The Economist iPad App

By: Ashley Burton

Ashley Burton — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 23:28:24 +0000

The cost’s easy enough to fix with a print or digital subscription and I get the viewpoint that it’s missing a few bells and whistles but personally I’m really pleased with the app, it really does feel like reading the magazine normally. I’ll definitely be renewing my subscription but probably just digital since there’s really no need for the print edition any more.

By: Lochias

Lochias — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 13:07:40 +0000

Still, as it says, photos and tables cannot be zoomed.

By: Charles

Charles — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 07:09:01 +0000

Yea, the scale adjustment is fine for me. My only complaint is that you can’t highlight and search words in Google or Dictionary.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:27:42 +0000

Have you tried pinch to zoom on the text? It works so well, it is nice they have used a built-in feature of multi-touch to removed a few more buttons that normally get in the way of the reading experience.

By: Meg Sammons

Meg Sammons — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:12:02 +0000

What the hell is wrong with these publishers! I just checked out the Economist site, I can a 12 issue subscription for $1.25 an issue and they want me to pay $5.99 when they have ZERO PRINT AND DISTRIBUTION COSTS!! Are they nuts! I’d love to have this on my iPad but the proper price is a big discount, $0.99 per issue is the right price. If they did that, I’d buy issues of probably a dozen magazines. Instead, I get none, even issues I’d really like, because it feels like they are ripping me off. I understand it costs them something to produce and electronic format, but if they priced it as 99 cents I think they’d get 25 times the sales they get at 5.99.

By: Jeff Devine

Jeff Devine — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:57:07 +0000

Check the iPhone version, it has both contrast and font size options. Chances are this will come to the iPad version.

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:53:15 +0000

You can pinch to scale the text in articles

By: jmac

jmac — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:29:48 +0000

the iphone app has text adjustment, that’s weird ipad doesnt…