[huggyface]

Does anybody besides me think this indicates consumers are replacing their old "real" computers with iPads?

While such conjecture is hardly novel, I think it's fairer to say that iPads are replacing a lot of things, and that's what feeds the justification. Your PVR, TV, newspaper and magazine subscriptions, kids toys, educational products, and on and on -- iPad (or tablet in general, though obviously the iPad is the front-runner).

[ChuckMcM]

This is more real for me. I so much prefer reading magazines on this iPad than in 'real' life form.

Its interesting that successful digital magazines are like 'print' and not like 'web'. I enjoy the Economist and WSJ and NYT etc when they just have print, pictures, and perhaps a short video snippet.

Unsuccessful magazines to date either try to animate / annoy with ads and/or charge more (or extra) for digital content.

The learning process is painful but I recently checked out the Endgadget's 'distro' magazine and its actually quite readable and useful so there are 'new media' folks arriving, 'old media' folks figuring it out, and people who aren't adapting I expect will die.

Now if we could bring back BYTE magazine in this form it would totally rock.