It's Alive..Alive newspapers are not dead yet. Let's hope The IPad keeps it going for folks Like me who like a good smoke & a cup of java in the morn. What~is~Hip~only~The~comming~years~will~tell The Ram Man

The application is not bad, why are the pictures and videos so tiny? Why not make a better use of the screen? But the worst, outrageous thing is the price of the subscription. Twice as much as the iPhone? The content is EXACTLY the same. More than the print edition??? More than the print edition AND the web combined? WSJ please stop drinking your cool-aid, or at stop spiking it, with whatever you are using.

I love the Journal's content and would love to recommend the app, but you can do literally nothing without signing up or promising to pay $18 a month until cancelled. Considering the $140 yearly deal for a paper+web subscription, and the occasional $99 offers I get in my postal mail, I think the Journal needs to change its pricing ambitions, like now. I miss the free opinion journal site, which was great while it lasted. At the time I thought the free opinion with paid news model would work because the news content is so highly valued by readers. I miss the columnists, but not enough to pay double the going rate for a product far cheaper to produce than a newspaper. Give me a $70-odd in-app purchase, non-recurring and I'll return to the fold. Until then you will have to enjoy the Journal content even more than I do to consider this worthwhile.

Why does every magazine and newspaper think they can charge 2-5x the print version price? Come on...we're saving you printing and delivery costs. Goodbye WSJ

More expensive than the online, the paper...AND the online + paper subscription.....please don't kill the print industry with inflated prices for less overhead!!

Let's hope the Financial Times will come up with something better and priced more fair. Murdoch deserves to lose loyal customers to his competition.

Setting the crazy price aside for a moment (and I am a WSJ print subscriber and was really looking forward to the iPad version), the execution of the program is not so great. First off, the interface is definitely slow and laggy. When you go to turn a page, many times it gets stuck and you wonder if you swiped your finger properly to turn the page. On the second attempt, it then thinks you are selecting an article and you are in a spot you don't want to be in. Also, the articles in the section you are in are on the right side of the page which looks nice but the entire thing moves in unison with the news article when you turn the page which looks silly. Other major issue is the navigation is terrible. Once you select an article, there is no back button to go back to where you were so you end up with multiple presses to get back to the page you were reading on. I was annoyed after just a few minutes of doing this. When you tap an article to select it, the program should blow the article up on the page with an x in the corner so when you are done, you can easily get right back to the page you were on just like a real newspaper where you never lose your place. This definitely was rushed out the door and needs a lot of work before it is ready for prime time. They not only need to fix that price which is turning of current readers but the program needs some major work.

This is one of my most anticipated apps. Now that pricing has been formally announced - I think pricing is 20 - 30% more than it should be. I have no problem paying for content. However, both the weekly and monthly options cost too much. Further, there should be a price break for paying monthly vs weekly, and another break if you subscribe for a year. I urge the WSJ to reconsider their pricing schema. A full year is on par with what the paper costs with access to WSJ.com. The WSJ really needs to reconsider the economics of this pricing.

They just don't get it...still!!! Old print media is having a field day with the idea of forcing us to see their ads (which can now be as irritating in an app cos they can program the app to *force* us to watch them) but they also charge MORE for using the app and getting our news this way than they do for us buying the actual paper with the online option. Old print media needs to figure out...it is ads OR subscriptions but not both. And certainly not at these horrendous prices! I am not worried ... With a major publication like the WSJ getting (at the time I am writing this) a total of ONE star for their effort they will change or they will die out.

This costs $18 a month compared to as low as $60 a year for the print edition! What's wrong with this picture? This needs to be priced much more competitively.

Very excited to be able to read the WSJ on my new iPad only to find that this is NOT a free app. You have to pay a subscription to get almost any content. False advertising.

The bean counters have drank the cool-aid. Crazazy!!

I don't even wanna start talking about the price. Just look at USA Today application and see how to make it look readable without protrusive ads

Costs MORE than print edition???? Ads all over the place at twice the price? What are these people smoking? I'll be reading NPR, USA Today, and NYTimes apps instead, screw WSJ.

I love the WSJ, and greatly appreciate this first effort. I look forward to further interface refinement though such as better navigation control (I find that moving gestures would often not take me where I meant to go). More ads then I thought there should be. Most significant is the inflated price. Seriously, I WANT to obtain my daily WSJ fix via my iPad, but the pricing IS too high. I hope that this pricing will be fully reconsidered by the powers that be at WSJ. It would be a sin to declare their foray into iPad publication a failure due to a poor management decision concerning price.

This is a nice first attempt, but it is clearly just a sales tool to generate $18/month subscribers. I rather enjoyed the NYTimes iPad app far more than this one. Much more elegant and free. Good luck with this model, but I too will likely be uninstalling on Day One.

Ok, so it's free, unless you actually want to read, view or do anything. Then you need a ridiculously priced subscription. Funny how Apple says developers can't deliver apps with missing or crippled functionality, but every other key press results in a very annoying "subscription required for this content/functionality" pop-up. Simple notion - don't tell me something is free when it clearly is not. WSJ is being uninstalled as I type...

Not only is the application simply unusable - but the iPad subscription account does not let you read the WSJ online. Double the price (compared to online) not even half the value ... if one could avoid the WSJ then they would have lost me today - but they for sure managed to leave a negative impression.

This is a pricey app. I shouldn't have ads popping up all over the place. It is distracting and takes away from the experience. It seems like every other page is a ad. If this continues I will cancel.

Hard to believe, but they are asking for almost double the print price to subscribe to something with almost zero distribution costs. Sorry, traditional media, we are not here to pay for your losses. Let's get real. No doubt prices will come down soon when people don't subscribe and they see these reviews, so keep them coming and speak up. Someone needs to get fired over there for this huge leap backward.

You are what is the problem with publishing, you manipulate the reader and user NOT FREE APP

Had a hard time navigating the app - if the objective is to recreate the newspaper experience, nothing could be farther from accomplishing that - repeatedly got into selecting an article when all i wanted to do is to go to the home screen.

The interface currently kills the experience of using the app. It shows lots of promise but needs detailed oriented refinement before it shines. A few things: 1) the app should remember where you were if you quit and return to it. Launching it and having to find your way back takes way too much time. 2) it's confusing to navigate. I'm never sure what section Im in or if I've moved into another section. The app uses gestures like a pinch to move backwards to a previous section head and that's confusing. The New York Times Ipad app is much easier to navigate. 3) it would be good if the app got a little faster. There's a delay in going back to pages you were just looking at. The Journal should keep refining this app because it really does show potential. It's great to have the whole paper available but the interface just needs work.

This app is just a shame. As other reviewers notes it's media is tiny, lags and is wholly a disappointment. Perhaps if it didn't crash on startup 9 out of 10 times I would find it slightly less a failure

Can't pay more than $5/mo.

It's annoying that you have to pay to really receive the content. If it were a good product then a fee would certainly be justified. This app looks great, but the interface is confusing.