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It's not you (RS), it's them...
The bad review(s) are misdirected IMHO. Long time, first time...(subscriber/reviewer). I have no issue zooming in/out with pix and/or text, was able to read FAQ to determine the info needed off the print version to use digital, seamless move to iOS9 despite the drastic differences in app interface. They sound like the typical Jo(e) tech consumer; if it doesn't work how or the way they expect, it must be broke. Rather than read a FAQ, they post a review based on their understanding to the one place people may actual give a quick read. Did you mean to subscribe to Highlights?Show lessjohnsonvillian
Sorry to see you go RS
Cancelled my subscription. The only reason I subscribed to the IOS version is that it was an interactive version. If I wanted to read a PDF version that's too small to read on an iPad screen, I could just torrent it. If you come back, I'll come back. In the mean time, I'll read you on your website.fran6co
Newest version terrible
First off, the last two issues were unreadable as they were formatted like the print edition instead of the old digital edition. The microscopic text couldn't even be enlarged. Though the text can now be enlarged in the latest fix, it's still formatted like the print edition instead of for an iPad, and you can no longer listen to music samples in the reviews and recommendations sections like you used to. The digital-formatted version of the past was so vastly superior I don't understand the change. Complete bunk. I've subscribed for years but will not renew.Show lessGravywolf
You simply don't care about your loyal readers
Every other magazine I subscribe to allows me to adjust the text size but Rolling Stone. You've shrunk the type so small it's unreadable. You have apparently done away with the interactive features that used to exist. And finally, to make matters worse, you require print subscribers to buy a digital subscription too to have digital access, unlike virtually every other magazine in existence. As a result of the deficiencies and your failure to address these concerns voiced by thousands of subscribers besides me, I will not renew either of these subscriptions until you address these concerns. Read the reviews on iTunes and you'll see I'm not alone. Despite many, many people raising similar concerns, you do nothing which leads to only one, inescapable conclusion: you simply do not care about your customers. So, count me among the many, recent former subscribers. Let me know when you start caring about the people that actually buy your product, and I'll consider another subscription. Sad part is, I really love the content, but that love is substantially outweighed by my hatred of your obvious disdain for your customers.Show lessbpaisley69
Come on RS...Be Fair
I have no idea if this app or the iPad version of Rolling Stone is any good because the publisher has taken a totally backwards approach to their digital version. I am a long term subscriber to Rolling Stone. I like receiving the print magazine. And it's easy for my wife to grab my copy when I'm not reading it. I tried to get the digital version on my iPad but RS sells that separately; not even a discount to add digital to my print subscription.
Come on guys. I know publishers are struggling to remain profitable but don't charge me twice. I should be able to pay one price and then read your magazine in whatever format I choose. Digital is handy at night. I can read without turning on a reading light and disturbing my partner. And it's great to be able to carry a bunch of reading material when I take a trip. But I can't easily share the digital version with my wife. I want both for a single price. Don't make me choose.Show lessDCohn
Now a terrible app.
Now they fixed the size problem but all past issues are taken away! Plus when you re-open the app, it does not take you to where you were but starts with the cover shot again. I even had to re download the issue again. Signed up for one month only. Then I will delete the app altogether.Gagnutz
Terrible "Update"
What have you done RS?!?! I will join the chorus of current subscribers frustrated and annoyed by your app not restoring previous purchases/downloaded issues. Once this issue was resolved for me, what bothered me even more was that the magazine is now just a cheap PDF copy of the print version. How is this an update?? The digital magazine format was great, with an intuitive interface and clickable links to songs and videos; in 2016 why would you revert to an outdated, cheap, and lazier version? This decision to degrade your app has diminished the value of this once great magazine for me, and I will not be renewing my subscription if the true digital magazine format is not brought back.Show lessTheBlackBat
Wish I could give zero stars
Purchased an annual subscription last May. I was always curious about the login option because they never sent me any credentials after the purchase. I even went to RS's website to see if there was any option to email support over it. Nope. Now with the most recent update (16JAN2016) it requires logging in to access my account AND the restore purchases from iTunes doesn't work either. So basically here is where my subscription ends; i.e. 4 months short. I'm irritated that they can't seem to figure it out and annoyed that I'm robbed of $5. But then I remember how little I will miss seeing cover art featuring crappy boy bands like 5 seconds of summer (also RHCP did that already you wankers).Show lessBrent212
Rolling Stone: cultural lightening rod
I have thoroughly enjoyed my subscription to this biting, insightful and up to the moment news source. The pop and music gossip and glossies caught my attention, but the fearless and honest journalism ( mostly) has me reading my issues cover to cover. I have a modest interest in staying relevant at age 58, and Rock and Roll was the culture that I grew up in, so I enjoy sampling the new artists, whether or not I like them. I would recommend this magazine to discerning ex-hippe wanna bees and former YUPPIE scum types everywhere.Show lessPorterville1
Demand for extra $ from print subscribers makes no ¢.
Hey, Rolling Stone advertisers, do you want to get your ads seen in more places by more people? If so, you should advertise somewhere else, because RS is determined to make iPad access as painful as possible for its print subscriber base. That's right: If current subscribers want to read issues both in hard copy and digital form, they have to pony up extra for the iPad edition. What percentage of subscribers do you suppose would go for that? One percent? Two, maybe?
Contrast: Print subscribers to The New Yorker can download years' worth of issues they might never have received in the mail. Such service makes the magazine's premium subscription rate easy to justify. Generosity begets generosity; cheapness begets cheapness.Show lessBillvolio
