Wall Street Journal iPhone App Content is Free

Wired – The Wall Street Journal, one of the few newspapers that charges for content online, released an app for the iPhone Wednesday which sets their content free, poking another hole in one of the internet’s oldest pay walls.
The Journal released an free app for the Blackberry last August, a seemingly more natural fit with a corporate demographic. But for business news junkies the iPhone app is a watershed event, putting a financial newspaper of record on what remains essentially a consumer device for free. Even on Amazon’s Kindle the Journal is $9.99 a month — about as much as subscribing to the newspaper itself.
There are plenty of brand-name news app on the iPhone — including Bloomberg, the New York Times, CNN and the AP — so the Journal is a little late to the game. But none of the other big players charge online and, to read most anything on wsj.com, you have to pony up $103 a year — $140 if you want the dead tree version, too. Read the rest of this entry »