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'The Daily' doomed by dull content and isolation

It was too expensive. It lacked editorial focus. And for a digital publication, it was strangely cut off from the Internet. That's the obituary being written in real time through posts, tweets and online chats about The Daily, the first-of-its-kind iPad newspaper that is being shut down this month.

 

News Corp launches iPad newspaper at 14 cents/day

News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch, among the most ardent defenders of the traditional press, introduced the first ever newspaper created solely for tablet devices like the iPad.

Senh: It's a good experiment, but $30M to make an iPad app? Jeez. $4/month for a subscription isn't too bad. But what I don't get is you can already access all of that news via the web, so I don't know why anyone would pay for it.

 

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