Hearst's Chris Wilkes: iPad is a 'Gateway' to Selling Digital Content

Although the jury is still out on whether the iPad will save magazine publishing, for executives like Chris Wilkes of Hearst, the innovative device means one thing: an opportunity to actually profit from digital content. (This, of course, is opposed to the free-is-better mentality of the Web.)

“What we finally have when the iPad is here is ubiquitous Internet connections, portability, and a large color screen which really gives us a palate with which to create beautiful products on,” Wilkes said in our Media

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