All delivered straight to your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch.
No more lonely moments.
Your app purchase gets you six months of weekly Small Chair content, plus semi-eternal delivery of the website material, plus deluxe access to our classy
e-book store.
+ Purchase full-length e-books typeset specifically for your screen size,
+ Share Internet Tendency articles via Twitter, Facebook or email,
+ Push Notification sounds by Nick Thorburn of Islands and Mister Heavenly,
+ Synchronize purchases across devices with your McSweeney’s Account.
+ See more...
STRIDING BOLDLY INTO A TERRIFYING FUTURE OF ROBOTIC TEXTS
In our continuing efforts to extend a tentacle into every cranny of human experience, we proudly present the Small Chair, a weekly selection from all branches of the McSweeney’s family. One week you might receive a story from the upcoming Quarterly, the next week an interview from the Believer, the next a short film from a future Wholphin. Occasionally, it might be a song, an art portfolio, who knows. None of this material will be available online and it’s all pretty sure to be good stuff. (Note: Your subscription begins with the piece currently at the top of this page; past Small Chairs are not available, but the future is sure to be even better.)
The app also delivers the daily humor from our Internet Tendency, specially formatted for your iOS device, along with news, updates, and announcements. This feature will remain active and free, even if your Small Chair subscription expires.
Finally, we offer a small library of handpicked e-books, designed specifically for this platform, available as in-app purchases.
Allow the Small Chair to fill your moments of solitude, moments of togetherness, moments of intolerable boredom. The Small Chair is available on iPad®, iPhone® and iPod touch®, and currently nowhere else. It can be downloaded from the App Store℠, via the normal channels.
$5.99 (or local equivalent) gets you the app plus six months of weekly excitement — a half-year of surprises, all delivered straight to your pocket.
WHAT ABOUT REAL BOOKS?
We are more committed than ever to books, paper, and exploring the possibilities and challenges of our physical objects. In just the past year we’ve published a prototype for future newspapers (the folded-newsprint kind), a pentagonal buried-treasure board book, and a dazzling debut novel printed on 523 bound sheets of two-sided paper.
At the same time, we’re always looking for new ways to communicate with our readers. McSweeneys.net has been an important part of our operation from our very beginning, and this project is the next logical step. It’s fun to try things like this, and the iOS format provides opportunities for working with different types of media, especially in small chunks and with fast delivery. We expect it to evolve in interesting and unpredictable ways, and hopefully you’ll follow along with us.
A network connection and a McSweeney’s Account are needed the first time you run the app.
The application sends certain statistics about your device back to our servers. These only include things accessible via the
iOS SDK such as UDID, device name, model and iOS version. We need this information to manage your subscriptions
and make sure the content we deliver is optimised for your device.
Push Notification sound effects were created exclusively for us by Nick Thorburn of Islands and Mister Heavenly.
Dynamic installation by Rafaël Rozendaal. He lives and works on the internet.
Starburst by Chris Ware.
The excellent ASIHTTPRequest wrapper was used in this project. This portion of the code base is
copyright © 2007-2011, All-Seeing Interactive and is distributed under this license.
We also used the also excellent ZipArchive, licensed and distributed under the terms of the MIT License.
Thanks also to Mark Bates and PRX for the APN on Rails gem. This is also licensed
and distributed under the terms of the MIT License.
The Store and Subscription tab bar icons were created by Joseph Wain
and are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
Twitter communications based on MGTwitterEngine by Matt Gemmell and Twitter+OAuth by Ben Gottlieb.
Facebook communications implemented using Facebook Connect for iPhone.
Apple, the Apple logo, iPod, iPod touch, iPhone and iTunes are trademarks of Apple Inc.,
registered in the U.S. and other countries. iPad is a trademark of Apple Inc.
App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc.
Everything else is © McSweeney’s.
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