{"id":19662,"date":"2010-05-24T18:32:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T17:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.razorianfly.com\/?p=19662"},"modified":"2010-05-24T18:43:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T17:43:21","slug":"the-financial-times-now-on-ipad-offers-readers-3-months-readership-absolutely-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/24\/the-financial-times-now-on-ipad-offers-readers-3-months-readership-absolutely-free\/","title":{"rendered":"The Financial Times: Now on iPad, Offers Readers 3 Months Readership Absolutely FREE &#8211; [Updated]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published in the Borough of Southwark, London and with the physical edition usually printed at 22 different sites, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/home\/uk\" target=\"_blank\">Financial Times<\/a> (@FT) is a British international newspaper which is well respected by a wide audience, specifically those in the business sector. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Specifically reporting on the business markets, the paper is known for being both sophisticated and having a huge readership. <\/p>\n<p>Having already created and released a specific app for the publication for the iPhone, Pearson PLC the owners of the broadsheet a few weeks ago released an iPad-specific version of the newspaper. The app puts everything you love about the Financial Times in your hands, and on the iPad&#8217;s large screen feels just like <em>(if not better)<\/em> than the physical paper version.<\/p>\n<p>The app allows users to read up to 3 articles for FREE, and then subscription is required. Luckily, the paper has recently teamed up with Swiss-based watch maker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hublot.ch\" target=\"_blank\">Hublot<\/a>, and are now offering users of the FT iPad app the ability to create an account and read the contents of the newspaper for a whole 3 months, without the need for payment.<\/p>\n<p>But be quick &#8211; this offer is set to end <strong>31st July 2010<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Update]<\/strong> &#8211; As noted by @ThomasDavies, the FT also offers students with .ac.uk addresses <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/thomasdavies\/status\/14637155440\" target=\"_blank\">the ability to sign up<\/a> for a years FREE student subscription.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/FT.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Thanks @Mabakle, @ThomasDavies]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published in the Borough of Southwark, London and with the physical edition usually printed at 22 different sites, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/home\/uk\" target=\"_blank\">Financial Times<\/a> (@FT) is a British international newspaper which is well respected by a wide audience, specifically those in the business sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2028,2133],"tags":[2877,2812,1826,280,3507,27,2813],"class_list":["post-19662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-app-store","category-ipad","category-news-app-store","tag-3-months","tag-financial-times","tag-first","tag-free","tag-ipad","tag-news","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19662"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19906,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19662\/revisions\/19906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}