The iPad app will allow users to download and read Times content offline and have a particular emphasis on interactive graphics, picture galleries and video, says an article on the old Times website.
It will cost £9.99 for a 28-day subscription – a significantly different pricing structure from the soon-to-be-launched paywall for the new Times and Sunday Times websites. Access to the newspapers' websites will cost £1 a day or £2 for a week or come free with a print subscription, but no mention is made of a payment plan for using the iPad app and accessing the paywalled websites through the device.
"The Times' iPad application is an optimised, edited edition specifically for the iPad - including most sections of the paper - which can be downloaded and read offline. It is a separate product from thetimes.co.uk, which is why it is priced differently - so readers can choose whether they want to read The Times in a print, online or iPad format," a spokeswoman for the Times told Journalism.co.uk.
Speaking at a pre-launch event for the new websites, Sunday Times executive editor Tristan Davies said an iPad app for the Sunday Times was also being looked at.
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