Ipad Making News(Papers)
Apple announced last Monday that it had sold two million of its tablet computers in the United States in less than two months, outdoing even the iconic iPhone on its launch.Since its launch in Australia, sales of iPads have exceeded expectations, with most outlets selling out.
Mr Murdoch’s News Corp has ridden the iPad wave, selling 20,000 apps for its newspapers. The sales included 4500 subscriptions for The Australian app and 5000 for The Times in Britain.
Analysts estimate Apple will sell up to eight million iPads this year.
Mr Murdoch said he expected to gain at least an additional 1.1 million paying subscribers to The Wall Street Journal he owns, thanks to the iPad. The Journal already charges a similar number of people for access to restricted content on its website. So far 10,000 people are reading the newspaper on their iPads, according to Mr Murdoch. Another 100,000 people who already buy the Journal and have it delivered at home are also using the iPad to read it, he said.