How to read The Daily without an iPad, for free
By Lauren Indvik, Mashable
"Frankly, I'm... very curious about the legal implications," writes Andy Baio, who is indexing Daily content on the Web.
(Mashable) -- The Daily, the iPad-only tablet "newspaper" thet launched Wednesday, has an odd relationship with the web: It allows both subscribers and non-subscribers to view web-based versions of all of its articles for free, but it doesn't offer a convenient index (a.k.a. homepage) for perusing them.
So Andy Baio, a self-described journalist/programmer who works at Expert Labs, decided to do The Daily a favor: Compile all of the stories published each day by and post them to Tumblr.
Now, everyone can read The Daily, and even subscribers can access back issues -- which they weren't able to do previously.
The problem, of course, is that The Daily doesn't want users accessing its content for free; it wants people to pay for the iPad edition, which costs 99 cents per week.
"Frankly, I'm... very curious about the legal implications," he wrote, pointing out that his e-mail is listed at the top of the page should any of News Corp's lawyers care to get in touch.
Credit: CNN (www.cnn.com)
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