Tablet app has digital/paper Telegraph hybrid
The Telegraph still calls itself a newspaper, but its paperless products keep multiplying.
The newest additions: Apps for the iPad and Android tablets that bring you what might be considered a cross between the daily Telegraph and NashuaTelegraph.com.
You can flip through the day’s paper on the app just like you flip through it at the breakfast table – plus a few digital improvements, such as hyper-linked jumplines that take you to the jump of a story at the touch of a fingertip. Plus you can manipulate it like a website – searching, enlarging the type and photos, cutting-and-pasting stories, all with the flick of a wrist.
The app itself is free, but the product is only available to subscribers. Print subscribers can link their account to the app, or you can buy an online subscription.
The Telegraph’s iPhone application, which launched two years ago, is still available in the iTunes Store. It is free – it formerly cost $3.99 – and requires no username at this time. That won’t last, however. A new iPhone application, with many more features but probably also a cost, is expected to launch later this year.
On the old-fashioned Web, The Telegraph has changed its subscription wall. Visitors can read up to 20 articles in a 30-day period for free; after that, they will have to subscribe or link a print account to the Web.
In the coming months, The Telegraph will launch a redesign of the site. Due to the high number of pages on the site – more than 50,000 in a typical month – it will be rolled out in stages. Some of its affiliate sites, including mapyourwedding.com and TelegraphNeighbors.com, will be brought under the umbrella of nashuatelegraph.com, and we’ll also tweak the site to help the public see who works here and how to reach us and allow the community to submit news, information, volunteer opportunities and announcements more easily directly through the Web.


