Granta 17+
The Magazine Of New Writing
Granta
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Granta is one of the world's most respected literary magazines, acclaimed for the quality of its writing and for its mix of established and emerging authors.
Published quarterly in book form Granta is respected around the world for its eclectic combination of journalism, fiction, poetry, memoir and photography.
Alongside exclusive free weekly content, readers can access each new issue of Granta on the day of publication, as well as over one thousand pieces of writing and photography from previous Granta magazines over the last thirty years by purchasing an annual subscription.
Annual subscriptions can be purchased and these subscriptions will auto-renew until you choose to cancel.
N.B.
- The price of the annual subscription is £23.99
- Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase
- Your subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period
- Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period
- You can manage your subscription and switch off the auto-renewal by accessing your Account Settings after purchase
- No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period
Please see here for our privacy policy and terms:
http://granta.com/privacy-statement/
http://granta.com/terms/
Our archive contains work by writers like Margaret Atwood, Ann Beattie, Roberto Bolaño, Anne Carson, Raymond Carver, Lydia Davis, Don DeLillo, Bret Easton Ellis, Nadine Gordimer, Kazuo Ishiguro, Alice Munro, Haruki Murakami, Salman Rushdie, Paul Theroux, Binyavanga Wainaina, Jeanette Winterson and many more.
‘In its blend of memoirs and photojournalism, and in its championing of contemporary realist fiction, Granta has its face pressed firmly against the window, determined to witness the world.’ – The Observer
What’s New
Version 2.0.3
iOS 15 support
Ratings and Reviews
Poorly designed
This app is poorly designed as far as using on an Ipad is concerned. It forces you to use the portrait format, and there is no method of storing what you have read in any kind of library. Bookmarking does nothing, as when you turn off your device, it doesn't remember your book or the page place. Good points are that it does have all of the Grantas, but the interface is barren and not user friendly. Overall I would say Fail - this is like a beta version and Granta should do a serious redesign. I teach at an art college and if one of my students came up with this app, they wouldn't pass.
A triumph of style over function
It’s 5-stars for what the app does, namely gives subscribers access to a huge back catalogue of issues of Granta. There’s lots of happy browsing to be done here.
The app looks great, but using it is not at all intuitive.
There’s also no option to adjust font size, for example.
You have to go through a tiresome login regularly as it doesn’t remember your details. Mostly the login dialogue appears automatically, but when it doesn’t there is no way to force it.
You can’t swipe to the next article but have to go back into an index and access it from there.
And I note it hasn’t been updated in ages, which tells you everything about what a priority this is for Granta as well as their app developer. It’s as if there was a one-off budget to develop an app, but nothing set aside to keep refining it or responding to user feedback.
It’s a shame that such a refined and excellent publication is let down by an app that doesn’t match the aspirations of the magazine.
Awesome content, bewildering app
I’ve enjoyed reading Granta since I was first introduced by my favourite English teacher several years ago. The content they compile never disappoints; every issue is topical and compiles great content I would never have the time or resources to search out on my own. I’m happy to be a subscriber, and will remain so!
This app, on the other hand... yikes. There doesn’t appear to be any functionality as basic as reading offline or even searching for an article, although I can’t say for certain because the navigation and menus aren’t labelled or intuitive. You do get a nice quotation when you open the app, though. So that’s nice.
This app is somehow a step backwards from a print-and-paper copy, which is what I’ll stick to for now.
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Information
- Provider
- Granta Publications Mobile
- Size
- 21 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 17+ Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humour Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity
- Copyright
- © Granta
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Granta Digital Subscription £23.99