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The New Yorker is a national weekly magazine that offers a signature mix of reporting and commentary on politics, foreign affairs, business, technology, popular culture, and the arts, along with humor, fiction, poetry, and cartoons. Founded in 1925, The New Yorker delivers the best writing in the world on the events and ideas of the moment, and has received National Magazine Awards for its groundbreaking reporting, authoritative analysis, and creative inspiration.
A Google Play subscription to The New Yorker includes the Android-optimized news feed, which features articles and cartoons from the magazine, as well as fifteen to twenty new Web stories each day. The feed can be found under the “News” section of Play Newsstand. In addition, an exact-replica version of the magazine is available under “Magazines.” From here, you can toggle between your preferred view (PDF replica or text) in the upper right corner.
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Jeremy Good
Great content, mediocre delivery I've subscribed to the print version for several years and have also tried the NYer on a Kindle Touch. I'm switching back to the Kindle because the Newsstand app is disappointing on my Galaxy Note 8 and Galaxy S4. The price is the same for both editions, though sadly Condé Nast doesn't let you read the Kindle version on anything other than a Kindle device. With this edition you get all the ads (vs. none on Kindle), though you also see the magazine more or less as it was layed out for print. This is a usable edition, but not one that's enjoyable to use. My frustrations in comparison to the Kindle version: (I realize these are mostly annoyances with the Newsstand app, though it affects the experience.) - Poor navigation: can't quickly return to the table of contents. Instead, you have to swipe back in the "thumbnails" view, or drag the slider almost all of the way to the left. - No "night" mode (white on black). Sometimes I like using this during the day, and it uses less battery power on AMOLED screens like the one in my phone. - No page turning. For reading longer pieces, I much prefer page turns to constant scrolling. - No in-article font/size selection (set globally)
Peter Drubetskoy
Could be great, but for now is severely crippled 1) The worst thing about this app is that it does not remember last read place: basically, most of the time the app forgets the location in an article when the user leaves the app. This is really unfortunate, especially when one is reading a long article and then needs to return to it and to scroll for awhile to find the spot where one used to be. This seems like such an easily fixable bug that I cannot understand why it is still there even after the recent app update. With the latest app update this even made worse, because now one does not have a page number indicator at the bottom of the page like in the previous app version, so, one has an even harder time finding the location. 2) The recent update introduced a moronic idea of putting the extras at the end of the article. What gives? 3) No possibility of jumping to various places in long articles 4) The pictures (illustrations, photographs) and slideshows should all be zoom-able - on smartphones in particular, the size is usually too small to see detail. In fact, when one presses the + button to see the whole illustration, one get a lower resolution image than the preview! This is really amateurish, if you ask me.
Peter Owen
Weak at best I have been a New Yorker subscriber since perhaps 1990. Love the magazine. I am also an IT director so no stranger to computers. I started by trying to access The New Yorker on my SIII phone. There was a clunky sign-on, I had to follow instructions from an email, enter an account number, enter my zip code. Then, once I got in, I went ahead and chose to keep on device, since I suspected it might be slow over 3G-4G. Oops! Now it seems it can ONLY be read on that device? I see a big blue button, "Device Only" when I try to view on the web. I'll be sticking to reading my print copies! To be honest, it's probably as much Google Play's fault. Google play movies is also a disappointing waste - you can't upload movies you have already bought.
Chris Richard
Awful Most ratings taper down smoothly from positive to negative, but nearly a quarter of the reviews here are one star. Such a high percentage of angry users is unusual. . Number me among them. The magazine is great. The delivery is among the worst I've ever seen. I think the basic problem is that there's no standalone app; you have to get access through newsstand, which bombards a user with ads for unwanted publications on the way to the New Yorker subscription. Once there, the service is very buggy. I was told that I ought to have issues in my archives dating back to April of last year. There are no back issues. Tech support can't fix that simple problem. There isn't space for my other complaints but please note that shortcomings flagged in reviews two years ago still aren't fixed. Read the mag; skip the app.
Josh Rose
Fantastic Reading and Interactive Experience I just installed my first issue on both my Nexus 7 and Nexus 4, and was pleasantly surprised to find that the reading experience is optimized for each differently-sized screen. If you've already become familiar reading magazines on your device, this takes some getting used to: swiping left to right does NOT change pages, but jumps from story to story, while each story loads as one long scrollable "page" that is navigated by swiping up and down. It's a little disorienting at first, but the adjustment goes really quickly (and actually makes much more sense when reading on a phone). I hope, though, a representative from New Yorker can answer this question: does subscribing to this Google Play version offer the same online archive access as the Kindle subscription? I have the latter, and would prefer switching to this version, but do not want to lose my archive access! Anyone know?
Jay Schieber
Often unreadable There is a whole new layout that solves some of the previous navigation issues. However there are two new persistent problems. First, if you return to the magazine after some time away, it often loses your place, so you have to scroll and search for some time to find it. More annoying is the random font size. Opening an article can put you in one of two possible modes, completely at random, as far as I can tell. In one of these modes you have a choice of three font sizes: tiny, microscopic or atomistic. It is nice to have the choice, but it would be better if one of them were readable to human eyes. I haven't found any settings that assumes the reader is using an electron microscope to read. At any rate, I don't have one with me most of the time. So instead, I just keep closing the article and reopening, hoping it returns in a font size greater than 2, or until I run out of time. Sometimes I will slaughter a chicken and do a little dance to try and enlarge the font, but cannot yet tell what color the chicken should be, or what style dance works. Soon I should have enough statistics to answer these questions.
User reviews
Great content, mediocre delivery I've subscribed to the print version for several years and have also tried the NYer on a Kindle Touch. I'm switching back to the Kindle because the Newsstand app is disappointing on my Galaxy Note 8 and Galaxy S4. The price is the same for both editions, though sadly Condé Nast doesn't let you read the Kindle version on anything other than a Kindle device. With this edition you get all the ads (vs. none on Kindle), though you also see the magazine more or less as it was layed out for print. This is a usable edition, but not one that's enjoyable to use. My frustrations in comparison to the Kindle version: (I realize these are mostly annoyances with the Newsstand app, though it affects the experience.) - Poor navigation: can't quickly return to the table of contents. Instead, you have to swipe back in the "thumbnails" view, or drag the slider almost all of the way to the left. - No "night" mode (white on black). Sometimes I like using this during the day, and it uses less battery power on AMOLED screens like the one in my phone. - No page turning. For reading longer pieces, I much prefer page turns to constant scrolling. - No in-article font/size selection (set globally)
Could be great, but for now is severely crippled 1) The worst thing about this app is that it does not remember last read place: basically, most of the time the app forgets the location in an article when the user leaves the app. This is really unfortunate, especially when one is reading a long article and then needs to return to it and to scroll for awhile to find the spot where one used to be. This seems like such an easily fixable bug that I cannot understand why it is still there even after the recent app update. With the latest app update this even made worse, because now one does not have a page number indicator at the bottom of the page like in the previous app version, so, one has an even harder time finding the location. 2) The recent update introduced a moronic idea of putting the extras at the end of the article. What gives? 3) No possibility of jumping to various places in long articles 4) The pictures (illustrations, photographs) and slideshows should all be zoom-able - on smartphones in particular, the size is usually too small to see detail. In fact, when one presses the + button to see the whole illustration, one get a lower resolution image than the preview! This is really amateurish, if you ask me.
Weak at best I have been a New Yorker subscriber since perhaps 1990. Love the magazine. I am also an IT director so no stranger to computers. I started by trying to access The New Yorker on my SIII phone. There was a clunky sign-on, I had to follow instructions from an email, enter an account number, enter my zip code. Then, once I got in, I went ahead and chose to keep on device, since I suspected it might be slow over 3G-4G. Oops! Now it seems it can ONLY be read on that device? I see a big blue button, "Device Only" when I try to view on the web. I'll be sticking to reading my print copies! To be honest, it's probably as much Google Play's fault. Google play movies is also a disappointing waste - you can't upload movies you have already bought.
Awful Most ratings taper down smoothly from positive to negative, but nearly a quarter of the reviews here are one star. Such a high percentage of angry users is unusual. . Number me among them. The magazine is great. The delivery is among the worst I've ever seen. I think the basic problem is that there's no standalone app; you have to get access through newsstand, which bombards a user with ads for unwanted publications on the way to the New Yorker subscription. Once there, the service is very buggy. I was told that I ought to have issues in my archives dating back to April of last year. There are no back issues. Tech support can't fix that simple problem. There isn't space for my other complaints but please note that shortcomings flagged in reviews two years ago still aren't fixed. Read the mag; skip the app.
Fantastic Reading and Interactive Experience I just installed my first issue on both my Nexus 7 and Nexus 4, and was pleasantly surprised to find that the reading experience is optimized for each differently-sized screen. If you've already become familiar reading magazines on your device, this takes some getting used to: swiping left to right does NOT change pages, but jumps from story to story, while each story loads as one long scrollable "page" that is navigated by swiping up and down. It's a little disorienting at first, but the adjustment goes really quickly (and actually makes much more sense when reading on a phone). I hope, though, a representative from New Yorker can answer this question: does subscribing to this Google Play version offer the same online archive access as the Kindle subscription? I have the latter, and would prefer switching to this version, but do not want to lose my archive access! Anyone know?
Often unreadable There is a whole new layout that solves some of the previous navigation issues. However there are two new persistent problems. First, if you return to the magazine after some time away, it often loses your place, so you have to scroll and search for some time to find it. More annoying is the random font size. Opening an article can put you in one of two possible modes, completely at random, as far as I can tell. In one of these modes you have a choice of three font sizes: tiny, microscopic or atomistic. It is nice to have the choice, but it would be better if one of them were readable to human eyes. I haven't found any settings that assumes the reader is using an electron microscope to read. At any rate, I don't have one with me most of the time. So instead, I just keep closing the article and reopening, hoping it returns in a font size greater than 2, or until I run out of time. Sometimes I will slaughter a chicken and do a little dance to try and enlarge the font, but cannot yet tell what color the chicken should be, or what style dance works. Soon I should have enough statistics to answer these questions.
Terrible experience with Google Play Magazine Just purchased a subscription with full digital access. When I tried to download the latest issue through Google Play, it would only show me The New Yorker Reader Healing Powers issue, which is not what I wanted. It won't give me any way to download any other issues. The email address I used for my New Yorker digital subscription is different from my Google Play email address, so I thought that screwed things up. I tried to cancel the subscription in Google Play and start from scratch, but now there's no way to "resubscribe" to the magazine in Google Play and it only gives me the option to buy the latest issue for $6.99. Now I'm going to have to wait and call customer support. An extremely aggravating experience. It took me two seconds to get this up and running on my iPhone. And why do I have these Cooking, Travel and Home magazines in "My magazines" that I can't remove?
Great mag, extremely lame app Item: New Yorker Magazine - one of the finest mags on the market. In order to read the digital edition on a tablet, you need the Google App or the Kindle app Both are lame beyond description. No way to return to where you last read on either No way to flip from page to page, can only scroll down. Older version on Kindle did that fairly well. No indication of how to get older issues on the Android version or even how to download the one you're reading onto the device. Repeated logins necessary on Kindle version, almost each time you d/l a new issue. Cannot control screen brightness on Kindle unless you first quit the app, which loses your place (again). No dictionary lookups possible. etc. Lame, lame, lame.
Love the magazine but the app is extremely unstable I am running this on the latest version of Android 5, using an HTC one, and it's incredibly frustrating -- I love the New Yorker, I think it's some of the best long-form journalism in the English language, but the app not only doesn't function but regularly crashes Google Play and sometimes my entire phone. In fact it's doing so right now. The problem usually arises when I try to download issues to read offline -- but this is nearly always what I want to do because the main time I read magazines on my phone is on the subway. This is the New Yorker, after all -- most of us do a lot of our reading underground!! PLEASE MAKE THIS APP NOT SUCK I REALLY WANT TO READ YOUR MAGAZINE WITHOUT GOING THROUGH HELL EVERY TIME I WANT TO DOWNLOAD AN ISSUE
Great magazine, poor reading experience on Nexus 7 I have been a New Yorker subscriber for over 15 years, and when I received a Nexus 7 tablet last year I decided to try reading the magazine on that device. While the content of the magazine is still excellent, the Google Newsstand app leaves a lot to be desired and ultimately decided to go back to reading the print version. The app would never remember my text size preference, always defaulting back to the smallest size which is barely legible. If I was in the middle of an article when it reset, I would have to scroll all the way back to the top of the article, change the text size, then go back and find where I was. I also didn't care for the single-page format of the articles, and cartoons would sometimes be rendered with unreadable captions. Navigating around the magazine using the table of contents was a plus, but overall I was disappointed in how Google and Conde Nast designed the reading app. Back to paper for me!
If this is the future of digital media, we're in trouble So far, this is a dreadful experience. I'm a print subscriber and am supposed to be able to get the New Yorker free. Downloading to my Nexus 7 was impossible. Accidentally canceled my digital subscription, and now there's no way to reinstate it. Don't know whether the problem is with Google, Conde Nast or both, but someone ought to fix this, pronto.
Love the New Yorker - totally hate the Google newsstand app. I am subscribed digitally until September of 2016, but the last issue on my phone is from sometime in February. What I do get on newsstand is a bunch of trendy crap I don't want. First thing when I open it I get "news" and sports and weather with lots of glitter and glamour and "buy me buy me buy me!" and I have to fiddle with menus telling me that "maybe if you do this then you'll get that" in order to get to the New Yorker, and there it is, with the issues a month out of date. Someone please tell me it's worth waiting for these people to get this straight.
Some issues It says that I am subscribed but how do I access the issues?! If I click the cover then I only get the cover. If I click the "Buy for 99 cents" button then it gives me an error message and says that it is processing my request but nothing happens. Also this "buy for 99 cents" button makes no whatsoever because it says on the same page that I am subscribed and that issues are supposed to be free for subscribers?! What's the point of being subscribed if I can't access the issues?
digital gift subscription unavailable - waste of money I was gifted a digital subscription, however there is no 'subscribe' option on google play so as an android user this appears to have been a total waste of money. 'Customer care' sends me a link telling me to click the subscribe button in google play (the one that isn't there). Disappointing and wasteful, 0/5
Improved, but still not great It used to be infuriating, and now it is merely annoying. My biggest complaint is that the new text resize feature must be reset on *every* article. It is absolutely unbelievable and constantly frustrating that anyone would design a user interface that does not remember your preference literally when you turn the page. Also, you can no longer zoom in, at least not on the current Android tablet version. Overall I find myself reading the print version because it is still simply better.
There is no longer a reason to use the digital edition on Android. They no longer send the "interactive" edition to the play store, but rather they use the Newsstand app's "News" feature for minimally interactive articles. Articles are out of order, text can be missing from them, the ENTIRE digital experience is AWEFUL. Meanwhile, they iPhone/iPad edition is the same as it has always been. I can't imagine why they would do this except that some executive out there doesn't care for Android or has bought stock in Apple. I continue to enjoy the writing and the journalism. However, Conde Nast (who owns the publication) has screwed every Android user out of an experience they USED to provide but just decided to stop providing. Bad form, very bad form.
Google Play app delivery keeps failing I've been a New Yorker subscriber for years. From time to time, the Google Play app stops downloading the weekly issues. I had to tell the app to stop & then re-add the subscription--this wipes out all the stored issues on my tablet. The New Yorker people should just write their own app and get away from Google Play.
Too many problems This app is below par. Text is presented on very short "pages" or screens with no zooming in or out. You can't mark your place in longer articles which might consist of 150 or more screens to flip through. Lastly, no auto-rotate compatibility. Extremely disappointing.
I have piles of New Yorker Mags. This very promising app may eventually allow me to donate them to my doctor's office. Soon. I hope. First, Text and Image Resizing are not available for my Galaxy S4. Oh, my eyes, my eyes! Secondly, This app has no bookmark or history features, which are essential, unless you enjoy scrolling through dozens of pages to find where you left off Third, a search feature would be the bomb, especially if it were across issues. Where did I see that article...? Finally, let us share. That's good for all.
Can't access back issues I've subscribed to Play is baffling. I finally got it to recognize my subscription to the New Yorker, but all it will allow me to download is the current issue. If I click "Read" on back issues (e.g. last month's, which I subscribed to, and which I can read on the iPhone app), it tells me I haven't downloaded enough of the issue to read it?! Hopeless.
Could be better I have very low expectations. I can generally make do. The content here is riddled with formatting errors. I like that the magazine is available so early so I forgive the errors. I like not seeing cartoons when I'm reading an article. I like the poems separated from articles. I don't like getting a text, responding, reopening the magazine and being prompted to continue reading the article I finished three articles ago.
Used to subscribe via Google, finally discovered the much better Nook version I came here while catching up on back issues via Nook, on my Xperia Z3 Compact (i.e. a small phone). As a public service, I recommend y'all try it out. It's not perfect (no room to list flaws), but has features requested here, w/out extra ads, G Newsstand garbage - or NYer web content. Quickly if a tad awkwardly, it toggles between "page" & "article" view: "page" view (PDF-like) zooms, an obvious desideratum. "Article" shows stories as columns, but default text size isn't microscopic. Excellent night view.
Worked for a while, then broke on upgrade I remember struggling to get this magazine on my Samsung pad (I have a pad paper subscription). Now after an upgrade I can't seem to download any new issues. Still emailing support, but what a waste of time.
Really glad to finally see this I'd been using the New Yorker app scraped from the Amazon appstore for Kindle Fire for the past year, and it doesn't like to run on any version of Android other than Gingerbread or ICS (2.3 or 4.0), so I'm really glad to finally see this. However, that app allowed me to link my print subscription so I didn't have to pay twice -- this one doesn't. This might be because I'm in Canada. EDIT: Fixed as of 9/28! Can take a long time loading between articles, but I'm happy.
Back issues web only! Just to let folks know. Google play has only current issues - up to four months back I think. You have to browse the online archive via the New Yorker site for the archive. Hope that helps!
International subscribers unable to access. Can it be amended so that international subscribers (personally, Australia) can also have access to the interactive magazine please? Can the cause of this exclusion be divulged? Tech support's claim that Google is incapable seem unlikely.
Needs pagination The magazine content is great and I really appreciate the extras that come with the electronic edition. However, why oh why, is the content not paginated? When you reach the end of a page you need to scroll up like you are reading a webpage. It is awkward and tedious. Why can't I just swipe? The strange thing is that the extra electronic editions are paginated so gestures like swipe work but in the main magazine you have to scroll through the content like a Hobbit contract.
Kind of a fail... I have a Galaxy Note 3, so it should work, but there is no way to "verify my subscription", which I've had for years. The New Yorker folks say that's a Google thing. Works really well on my iPad. Too bad I can't get it for my phablet.
Poor reading experience on app Reading interface is worse than before. Better navigation but much worse for reading. No control over font type or spacing of lines. Hard to read long articles. I read the magazine only on my Note, so cancelled my sub.
Wonderful app with one defect and one missing feature I am so happy the NYer is available as an app now! One missing feature (this may be Google's fault, not the New Yorker's) is that the app doesn't remember my place. If I'm partway through an article and stop reading for a bit and come back, it has me back at the top of the article. For long NYer articles, this is VERY FRUSTRATING, especially as there is no way to "jump" to a page or bookmark a page. You just have to scroll forever. The missing feature is that I wish I could read back-issues through the app.
I've been a digital customer for a year, and never once have I been able to download the app, whose Subscribe button does not appear if you're in Britain. This is in spite of constant reassurances from The New Yorker (including concerned emails as to why I'm not taking advantage of my subscription) that my digital subscription is working. Complaints go unanswered. A complete ripoff. Edit: I've now at last got access (on my third year of subscription) but the review stands - this magazine treats its foreign subscribers pretty appallingly.
terrible. works better on my old $75.00 kindle How can a magazine app be so useless? No pinch enlarging of the text and when you go to the menu to enlarge the text, it doesn't change it. On my $75.00, 3 year old Kindle, The New Yorker was a pleasure to read. They get the idea that there is no need to try to reproduce the whole magazine with ads and all the extra nonsense. Just the text - Its easy to navigate and read. How could google not have this together yet? If i could do it, i would give it zero stars.
The publication is top-notch, the app is the most seriously flawed example I have ever encountered. Each week it is always a mystery if I am going to be able to download the issue or not, this week it stopped halfway way says there was an error and to retry, but no matter what I do or where I look there is no indication on how to retry. I have done the obvious things to no avail. This was way better on Nex tIssue, too bad they dropped their support.
Not available in Australia How disappointing - I was so looking forward to having multiple copies at my fingertips to fill my long commute time from metro to regional Victoria in Australia. (I'm a second generation New Yorker reader - my Dad still is still reading them at 89 having had them delivered to him in NZ for more than 40 years). The electronic version keeps my backpack light and ensures no ripped or crushed pages when I have to put the magazine away. Please don't forget your international readers.
Best English language writing from living writers If you love Art and Culture, and can filter the New York bias away (if you're not a New Yorker), this is precious, yet vital (as in vitality) writing. You'll learn *why* liberals think as they do, sympathetically (as liberals do about conservatives if they read the WSJ editorial page). Smart, funny, and deeply informative... I've expanded my logic and business to include drama and creativity through subscribing. There is more than money and CNBC for workaholics. Read this and grow sideways.
Won't sync with print subscription. The print subscription plus the digital subscription were just about the same price as the digital only. So I got the package even though I planned on using Android the most. Big mistake. Hint to conde nast mgt: Require all your IT/WEB staff to subscribe online, using their own credit card, to the print edition. Then have them come in to work and try to sync with their smartphone, ipad, or whatever. When they fail to sync, fire your top Web/IT guy. Then ppl might start to understand what their job is.
Not happy What a waste of time and money! I'm paid up for 12 months but haven't seen a mag for the last 3 months and after making me log in 3 times on different sites I'm told to access the mag through the play store newsstand, then told its unavailable! Their whole web experience is a disaster.
The app, always kludgy, suddenly stopped downloading the latest issue. Nor can I download it manually. It's like I've been cut off from the subscription I paid a hundred bucks for, even though the paper issue is still getting delivered. I have a lengthy, standing-room-only commute, so I spend more time reading the New Yorker on my phone than on paper. The fact that it abruptly failed to do the one thing it's supposed to - download the New Yorker! - makes this app useless.
Does not appear to work - updated! Almost as bad on my Android as on my Kindle. Disappointing. Update: after verifying my subscription, I was able to click on read. I wouldd have preferred an app with aa shortcut but at least it does work.
Disaster One of the worst user interfaces in existence. Baffling navigation, unpredictable behavior. No pagination. Doesn't remember where you stopped reading. Save yourself the headaches and just read the print version. It's terrifying to think what kind of people at the magazine think this is a good app.
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47 issues / year
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Internet connection
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May include any of the following: text, images, audio, or scanned pages
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The Google Play Newsstand app for Android and iOS, and Newsstand on the web.
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Sold by Google Inc. as agent for Condé Nast
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