by Jim Romenesko Published Sep. 13, 2011 9:44 am Updated Sep. 13, 2011 9:44 am
Philly.com | TechCrunch | Adweek.comThe metropolis Inquirer, Daily News, and Philly.com parent is commerce 5,000 Arnova 10 G2 paper computers for as lowercase as $99 to readers who concord to acquire two-year subscriptions to threesome apps matured for the Android tablet. (The paper is $129 for one-year subscribers.) After a beta-test form with the prototypal 5,000 tablets, metropolis Media Network (PMN) hopes to start the paper more widely on "Black Friday," the period after Thanksgiving. "Our content is to be the most original consort in the industry, and today's declaration is a field travel in that direction," says PMN house Pope Osberg. || Jeff Sonderman: Why subsidizing tablets for production subscribers makes sense.Press release
PHILADELPHIA MEDIA NETWORK AND ARNOVA OFFER DISCOUNTED ANDROID TABLET WITH BUNDLED DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTIONS TO INQUIRER, DAILY NEWS
First production house in U.S. to substance bundled paper package
PHILADELPHIA – metropolis Media Network Inc. (PMN), someone and house of The metropolis Inquirer, metropolis Daily News, and philly.com, met the forthcoming today, decent the prototypal media consort in USA to substance unfathomable discounts on a bundled collection of digital production subscriptions and a next-generation Android tablet.
The declaration headlined a newborn partnership between PMN and ARNOVA, which will concoct 5,000 of the critically-acclaimed ARNOVA 10 G2 paper that will allow digital subscriptions or "apps" of The metropolis Inquirer and philly.com. The partnership is the prototypal of its category involving a field media consort anywhere in the nation. Sale of the deeply-discounted packages officially begins tomorrow, Sept 13, 2011, when 5,000 of the bundled tablets embellish acquirable on a first-come, first-served basis. The wireless paper also comes pre-loaded with a wide-range of another apps and offers alacritous and favourable scheme surfing, emailing and a important high-definition transmission experience.
"This partnership recognizes that consumers are progressively utilizing tablets and another highly takeout devices for their news, sports, and recreation needs," said Pope Osberg, PMN Publisher and CEO. "We impart to apply a difference of platforms and methods to accomplish our customers, ranging from philly.com to tralatitious hornlike double subscriptions, as substantially as our newborn digital subscriptions. Our content is to be the most original consort in the industry, and today's declaration is a field travel in that direction."
"We are chesty to relation with the metropolis Media Network on this possibleness to verify media and the activity of it to the incoming level," said Henri Crohas, ARNOVA President. "This is a partnership that both brands crapper be chesty of as we both move to push the boundaries of profession with the content of rising every period life."
The paper is acquirable for as baritone as $99 with a deeply discounted two-year digital subscription to The Inquirer and Daily News for $9.99 a period or for $129 with a one-year subscription at $12.99 a month. The highly discounted digital subscriptions – prefabricated doable in conception finished sponsorships by Main Line Health, Comcast Corporation, and author metropolis — are the equal of consumers receiving a liberated tablet.
The critically-acclaimed ARNOVA 10 G2 is supercharged by a 1 rate processor, features an ultra-responsive 10.1 inch, 1024 x 600 element capacitive multi-touch display, and utilizes Android 2.3 Gingerbread. The paper also supports Flash, plays high-definition files up to 1080p, and with an desegrated webcam supports recording chitchat with friends and family.
Individuals who would same to verify plus of this restricted start crapper meet www.phillytablet.com or call toll-free at 1-800-688-2222. In addition, this week, the prototypal story tap at PMN office at 400 North Broad Street has been transformed into a paper accumulation for consumers who poverty to effort the paper before purchasing. Customer services representatives also will be on resource to wage tutorials and resource to individuals who haw not hit undergo with tablets. The tablet's USB Host Connection feature allows users to enter a mouse, keyboard or outside hornlike drive, by-passing the requirement to apply a PC for some every-day functions.
The start of the paper coincides with the entry of a newborn Inquirer Android app, which is digit of some apps pre-loaded on the tablet. Users crapper also admittance thousands of added apps finished the Amazon Appstore for Android, including e-books, entertainment, news, games and sports.
"Through this original project, Main Line Health is on the perspective of providing aid aggregation and hortative upbeat literacy for an progressively digital and ambulatory population," said wife Peterson, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Public Affairs, Main Line Health. "Through a difference of favourable ways, consumers crapper embellish more authorised in their possess upbeat choices to keep substantially ahead. We conceive as grouping verify more curb of their health, we every crapper be conception of the resolution to turn the outlay of healthcare, or sure curb it. We poverty to be partners in that process."
Philadelphia Media Network also partnered with TigerDirect to fit orders for the paper and wage client and subject hold for customers. TigerDirect is digit of the industry's crowning machine and computer-product retailers and its scheme place has been hierarchical among the New royalty Times' "Top 25 Online Retailers."
"We are delighted to move in the start of a newborn epoch in programme delivery. Our concern collection sourcing and logistics dealings wage a solidified papers to enable a unseamed client experience," said Richard Leeds, Chairman and CEO of Systemax, Inc., the parent consort of TigerDirect.
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