I happily pay for my subscription to The Economist and enjoy reading it on my iPad. But they don't even allow you to select a single word in an article, which would make it possible to look things up in a dictionary.
This kind of limitation to attempt enforcement of copyright is part of the whole problem right now.
Oh, that's not a copyright thing. It's more "you must be this tall to ride this ride." The Economist is snooty; if you need to look up the words, they don't want you.
Or they just don't use standard text views and didn't go out of their way to re-enable it. Back in the early days of OS X, you'd see a lot of controls that looked like the real thing but acted in subtly different ways because they were re-implementations to add some minor feature.
I happily pay for my subscription to The Economist and enjoy reading it on my iPad. But they don't even allow you to select a single word in an article, which would make it possible to look things up in a dictionary.
This kind of limitation to attempt enforcement of copyright is part of the whole problem right now.