iPad apps: news and magazines

Apple’s done a pretty good job convincing the old media that the iPad will save their industry, so we’ve taken our time trying out the launch titles in the App Store — it’s plain to see that different publishers have radically different ideas about how you’re supposed to buy and consume their content, and everything from pricing to UI is currently up in the air. But while the apps we’ve seen so far are definitely intriguing, we haven’t seen any silver bullets yet — and to be perfectly honest, in several cases we wondered why an app was preferable to an iPad-optimized web site, or even (gasp) a paper subscription. Let’s run down the launch lineup, shall we?

Update: We added in NPR and Zinio by popular request, check ‘em out below!

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