'The Atlantic' Tries a Weekly iPad Magazine

For the first time in its 156-year history, The Atlantic is offering a weekly edition, an iPad-based iteration that will spotlight the best of its web-based content that week.

The Atlantic Weekly will be available in an iPad and iPhone app on Friday afternoon in iTunes. Single issues will go for $1.99 or you can get a monthly or annual subscription for $2.99 and $19.99, respectively. Stories from each issue will be cherry-picked for their quality, rather than the amount of hits they get, says Geoff Gagnon, senior editor at the title