Gramophone Magazine at Mac App Store analyse

I have had this app for almost a year and love the magazine but for the last couple of weeks it has crashed over and over again. Have reinstalled a couple of times and no change. Will have to cancel my subscription. I cannot even open the latest issue for more than 5 seconds. Please fix this.

Gramophone needs no introduction. Its the best classical music magazine in the world, and the digital version is first-rate. You can even search and read reviews from the entire history of the magazine. BUT. Unlike every other magazine Ive subscribed to on the iPad, if you dont renew your subscription, the issues youve downloaded to your iPad are no longer accessible! Theyre locked against further access, even though you paid for them! This is simply wrong. I can understand losing continued access to the review archive, but if youve paid for the issues, you should be allowed continued access to them. This policy is not disclosed anywhere on the store. Gramophone, change your policy! Apple, does this accord with the terms of your agreement with the publisher? Im very upset by this. To top it off, this is not a cheap subscription!

As magazine apps go this one is mediocre at best. Given the effort that many other publications have put into designing their digital versions "from the ground up", this is little more than a print version that has been turned into an interactive PDF. The only real benefit the app provides (apart from the obvious convenience of having the magazine on your iPad) are the links to albums on iTunes.

well done, except an annoying issue: when reading an issue, it reloads from Internet each time, instead of keeping a local copy.

After paying for a subscription through Exact Editions, this doesnt allow me to read the entire magazine. Disappointing.

I love that this magazine is available digitally! The interface is superior to some other magazines that are available. With the magazine in the news stand it is there ready to read even when the wifi is not there. I now have one of my favorite magazines accessible on my iPad. That is so wonderful. The pages render as beautifully as the paper version. It is easy to zoom to make print larger. It is an easy swipe between pages or you can hit the scroll button at the bottom to quickly move around the magazine! Thank you!

I bought a 1 month subscription. At the end of the month my subscription expired, and the month I had bought (November 2011) disappeared. I tried to restore it, and was told I had no current subscription. So I guess theyre saying that you only "rent" the mag while you have an ongoing subscription, and if you let it lapse, you lose all your editions. Ripoff! UPDATE: iTunes have confirmed that you only get content while you are subscribed. So you could subscribe for a year, and once the subscription is over, you have no access to that content, ever again. Putting aside the subscription issue, the iPad edition of the magazine is devoid of any functionality or features that take advantage of the iPad platform. Its basically just a PDF dump of the print material. So its not worth subscribing to even if you got to keep all the copies. This is a putrid product.