Like others mention, this doesn't require Newsstand - A good example of a great magazine is TRVL - it's free and looks beautiful on my iPad… and it's just an app.
I don't think people really value their privacy, or the no-hassle nature of newsstand would appeal to a lot more folks. Instead, we have a culture where either your information is already out there, and you get spammed/junkmailed/coldcalled a lot, or it's not, and you can't exactly trace how someone got it.
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Like others mention, this doesn't require Newsstand - A good example of a great magazine is TRVL - it's free and looks beautiful on my iPad… and it's just an app.
I don't think people really value their privacy, or the no-hassle nature of newsstand would appeal to a lot more folks. Instead, we have a culture where either your information is already out there, and you get spammed/junkmailed/coldcalled a lot, or it's not, and you can't exactly trace how someone got it.
People do care about privacy if they are given fair choice.
When choices are between
1) FREE (in small print, give up privacy) vs 2) Pay $X (and protect privacy)
FREE overwhelmingly influences the choice.
However, if you find a market where all competitor directly charge comparable prices to consumers for the product and choices are
A) Pay $x and enjoy the product vs B) Pay $x, give up privacy and enjoy the product as well ads
then it'd be interesting if option B) would gain significant traction.