SmallNews, the iPad and The Times paywall

Saturday, March 27, 2010

The Times announced yesterday that the long-anticipated "paywall" around it's online content will start from June. Fairly obviously, this will almost certainly stop SmallNews from getting content from The Times, so when that happens, I will drop support for this. Personally, I won't miss it; I don't believe there's anything in The Times that can't be got elsewhere. So I'm inclined to agree with Jeff Jarvis's description of this as pathetic.

More positively, I'm expecting the Apple iPad to be a great way of reading newspapers. Luckily, I will be in California a week after the launch, so hope to get one before they're available in Europe. I will then make adapting SmallNews to work well on the iPad a top priority. I'm hoping that nothing much will need to be done, as the ePub version should already work. But a little bit of tweaking may be required.

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