Nieman Lab | The Next Web | News release
The New York Times launches a new "experimental" Web app today for its subscribers with iPads.

So if you're a Times subscriber you can now access its content on your iPad through the main NYTimes for iPad app, The Collection fashion and style app, the Flipboard app, plain old nytimes.com in the Safari browser, the experimental Skimmer Web app and now the new tablet Web app at App.NYTimes.com. (more...)

PEJ | Ad Age | IAB | Econsultancy The Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism released the results of a significant study today on the state of mobile news consumption in America. Pew found that some people consume more news after acquiring tablets and that getting news is the second most popular activity on tablets behind emailing. It also sheds light on the difference between people who use apps vs. the Web to get their news. Poynter's Rick Edmonds looks at the business implications: While tablet ownership doubled to 22 percent in the past year, those tablet owners don't want to pay for content and they aren't crazy about advertising either. That leads Rick to conclude that "bundled subscriptions are looking better than ever." (more...)

Atlantic Media's new business news website, Quartz, launched today. I wrote earlier about the five things journalists should know about this new project.

The first of those five things was Quartz's tablet-first focus, which we can now see in action.

Although the site is focused on reaching globetrotting business executives on their smartphones and tablets, you won't find it in your favorite app store. (more...)

Technology Review
Jason Pontin's latest column is perhaps the most simultaneously complete and concise summary of publishers' disappointment with mobile apps.

When Apple released the iPad in April 2010, the Technology Review publisher writes, "traditional publishers had been overtaken by a collective delusion. They believed that mobile computers with large, colorful screens, such as the iPad, iPhone, and similar devices using Google's Android software, would allow them to unwind their unhappy histories with the Internet."

But after setting foot in the new world of apps, Pontin writes, "like almost all publishers, I was badly disappointed. What went wrong? Everything." (Read on for his blow-by-blow account.) (more...)

All Things D
The Financial Times has launched a Web app that delivers content to tablets and mobile phones without going through Apple's iTunes store. The advantage is that the FT keeps control of the subscriber data and avoids paying Apple a 30 percent share of subscriptions. All Things D calls it the "first major attempt" by a publisher to create an HTML5-based app, though as we've noted earlier, The New York Times, The Huffington Post and NPR have experimented with them. || EARLIER: Aside Magazine app runs on any tablet, shows what developers can do with HTML5

A pair of Berlin-based designers has released a prototype of what they call the world’s first HTML5 magazine for tablets.

The project, called Aside Magazine, is an impressive demonstration of the design, interactivity and app-like experience that can be … Read more