Special service for tablet devices at News Corp.?

Posted by Leah McBride Mensching on July 30, 2010 at 8:38 AM

Following the success of subscription sales by The Times and The Wall Street Journal iPad apps, News Corp. is "nearing a decision on whether to start a news organization to provide content for a subscription application on digital tablet devices such as Apple's iPad," Kenneth LiFinancial Times reported today.

With 5,000 subscriptions in London three days after launching The Times iPad app, and 10,000 iPad subscriptions to The Wall Street Journal, there is a chance that readers "are willing to pay for portability." A decision on whether plans for the tablet-content unit will be shelved or carried out is due by autumn.

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