First the paywall now the pay app for the Spectator

The Spectator magazine is announcing plans to put its website behind a paywall and yesterday it further engrained itself into the content is not free model by launching a paid-for iPhone app which is also based on a subscription.

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The app, made by digital-edition magazine vendor Exact Editions (EE), costs £0.59. That price includes one week’s access to the current edition of the magazine in a miniaturised, page-turning, iPhone version of the real thing. But that’s not one-off payment - the payment must be renewed again and again for £0.59 a week. A month’s subscription is £2.39 and both options include access to five years of Spectator back issues.