Maybe,

$19.95 a month is too much. Esp if I can get the news from CNN for free. The publishers should realize that a "token" payment, $2.50 a month would get them 10 times the subscribers. With more subscribers comes more ad money. Advertising money is what will support the paper.

Hello CNN friends,

The iPad mania will save the digital newspaper industry,
because in the latest blog buster movie IRON MAN2
the entrepreneur Tony Stark(Robert John Downey, Junior),
make use of an iTable, where he could easily see digital news
about a candidate (Scarlett Johansson),
who he was hiring for his organization.

Greetings,
Jurgen R. Brul
Hometown: Paramaribo
Country: Suriname
Latin-American

Tony –

The issue is that places like CNN, or basically any other television or online news journal, pull information from the New York Times, The Washington Post, etc., often without more than a footnote citation. The news isn't "free" – it's just redirected. Money can't be made in advertising when no one visits your newspaper website, since information can be put in a couple of nice, 2nd grade reading level paragraphs for the masses somewhere like CNN. Newspapers still do the vast majority of real journalism – and receive none of the credit.

The Ipad is another media tool not anything to save the newspaper.
The print industry is slowly dying...giving birth again to new types of electronic media, but there's a large generation that wants to touch and feel print. media forms.
The Ipad is cool like the kindlemand the nook , but the world comrises of more places that the ones the PAD is sold too.
So newspapers should charge anywhere to create a stronger readership at lesser amounts.

No, newspapers are dead, and it is a shame that the newspapers are dying, because Ipads are a rip off. Having to fork out all that money and pay to access articles on something that belongs to you.

Hi,

In the article it states that;

"The iPad is unique, analysts say, because it is creating a new market segment in between mobile phones and computer laptops."

That's kind of a bold statement. If you really look at it objectively, I think you'd see that the iPad has a lot in common with the standalone PDA's that were marketed in the late 1990's/early 2000's. It's just that the iPad takes advantage of modern technology and advances in WiFi, batteries, processor architecture, and the like to provide a modern/advanced state of the art version of the old PDAs.

In the end though, the iPAD really just seems to be an evolved PDA.

Regards

Yes I will inevitably buy an iPad (someone in the family is already pushing), but not yet. It's the same drive as for the iPod and iPhone, both of which we have (iPods for the kids, iPhone for the wife).
Will anything save newspapers as we know them today? No, not even the iPad. It's an obsolete way of presenting the news and people can get the stories they want, when they want it, elsewhere – and presented in the format they want.
The iPad might save magazines though. It's 'cool' to flick through high quality, photo-rich (with video), e-magazines on many subjects. The iPad would make a new presentation platform.
For books, the whole author/Agent/Publisher/reader business model is fatally flawed and the iPad won't save book publishing as we know it today. As an author the model HAS to change. The way books are read, formatted, written – all of it needs to come into the Internet age.

Oh look, YET ANOTHER iPad story on CNN, news for Apple fans! The iPad does nothing tablet PC's from 2003 didn't do. In fact, it does less. But oooo god it's black and shiny and it's overpriced – gotta have it gotta have it.!

This logistically awkward device is selling at around 600 Dollars.Please give me one decent reason why i should not buy one of those compact laptops ? I mean seriously,600 Dollars for a piece of stupid junk that would break into pieces on first impact ?

Well, definitely no! It is much to difficult to screw an iPad up and put it in my shoes to dry these! And I hate to clean up my screen on the monitor after I ´ve eaten a chicken while I was looking for the Dow Jones! Believe me, it´s much easier to clean a mouse!

What does the iPad do that any other computer with a web browser can't?

No! The simple answer to your question, will the ipad save the newspaper industry, the answer is No! It won't

Good-Bye !!!!

i will buy it

People have to much disposable income and disposable brain?

Why, oh why do people hate Apple products just because they are made by Apple. If all these so called "Tablet PC" and Netbooks were so wonderful why does Apple have a larger marker share than Microsoft and why did these devices fail? We will have to wait and see what the IPad does but to hate it just because its made by Apple is silly. What's so great about Windows? In my experience, all it seems to do is make very simple jobs incredibly complex and frustrating!