Everyone's still mocking, but half of us have bought one anyway, because we're all massive nerds.

Is anyone actually planning to buy one beside me?

Is anyone actually planning to buy one beside me?

Bundlebox can get you the 16GB Wifi version delivered to the UK for £465.20.

Especially now this thread suggests a hard wired lock rotation switch,

and the ability to import your own ebooks to iBook

Do you have to shake it to reboot?

I think you're getting it confused with babies.

I'll be in the US on launch day.
Fuck.

According to the report, the select few developers who've seen their requests for a [pre-production] iPad granted must swear to harbor the units by locking them to an immovable object in an isolated room where all of its windows are completely blacked-out. They must then sign and submit a more than 10-page non-disclosure agreement along with photographic evidence that they've met all the provisions set forth in the document, which include the secret room.

This is true, it's a little infuriating.

Steve Jobs himself says this will be fixed, apparently.

Men's Health is reportedly offering ten free pages each from its April and May issues through an advertising partnership with Gillette, but those looking to download the full issues will have to cough up the full $4.99 newsstand price. Esquire is apparently planning to forgo advertising in its iPad versions at first and will charge $2.99 per issue, a $2 discount from the newsstand price.

In the report's final paragraph, the WSJ looks at its own situation, noting that six advertisers including Coca-Cola and FedEx have signed on for four-month ad packages with the publication costing $400,000. And in what is seemingly an afterthought, the report notes that The Wall Street Journal is apparently planning to charge readers $17.99 per month for access to the newspaper's content on the iPad.

Last month, it was reported that The New York Times' print and digital units were jockeying for control over iPad content, with the former seeking monthly subscription fees in the $20-$30 range while the latter was pushing for a $10 price point. It remains unclear what route that newspaper will be taking when its content launches on the iPad.

Esquire is apparently planning to forgo advertising in its iPad versions at first and will charge $2.99 per issue, a $2 discount from the newsstand price.

hmm, I think they'll need to remember they are competing with the internet on the iPad.

I will immediately disagree with there being no discount for an online version, given the overheads of switching to digital media are vast, regardless of content quality. Same as I disagree with e-book pricing.

You're confusing me here. You're disagreeing that there should be no discount? The overheads of switching to digital are vast? Surely you start off with everything in digital form, then actually transfer it to physical?

Isn't the rule of thumb in the paper magazine world that the cover price pays all your costs, so you break even on the physical product, and then profit from the advertising? In which case, as Apple give 70% of the purchase price to the magazine publisher, they are immediately up.

Are they, though?

The most outstanding magazine writing I recall in recent times was the 25 page Alien retrospective in Empire a few months back. It was thousands and thousands of words, had new interviews with most of the key cast and crew of all four movies, with plenty of production pictures and whatnot. I can't think of any websites that do writing on that scale. I also can't think of a way to make a website that does writing on that scale be profitable. And I don't want writing like that to disappear.

It's a conundrum.

I would love to see magazines free from the crutch of having to have adverts. Hell it could lead to the holy grail of a bias free games mag!?!.

Thinking about it, what would be a fair price for a yearly subscription to a Daily newspaper? 20p a day?

52 weeks
5 papers a week
260 issues
20p a day is £52 a year or £4.33 a month.

I'd consider that.

Informal poll. For magazines you already buy on paper, how much, compared to the cover price, would you pay for iPad versions?

I have a knee-jerk aversion to paying for this stuff that actually makes little sense. I buy Empire almost every month for whatever it costs; £3-4 or something. I read it then chuck it in my recycling bin. The experience of it being on paper isn't all that compelling; why shouldn't I take out an electronic subscription?

Right off the bat, I'm glad to see that my initial reactions to this thing were accurate.Anyone who believes this thing is a game changer is a tool. I'm sorry, but that's just the way it is. The iPad is nice, as we knew it would be. But it's bigger and much heavier than I'd like for a movie player or eBook/newspaper reader, and those were my own personal primary use cases. That so few early reviews called this out says a lot about those reviewers. My kids would get tired just holding an iPad. Is it made of lead?

Teardown: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPad-Teardown/2183/1

The iPad stacked upon a MacBook Pro, stacked upon a Dell laptop.