Sillicon Alley Insider is reporting that Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, has recently traveled to New York City to meet with execs at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal to negotiate bringing their content to the iPad.
We’re reliably informed that Jobs showed up for an iPad show and tell in the Times newsroom. The meeting was strictly off the record, though a person present indicated Jobs is preparing to gear up the iPad for magazines and newspapers, having put books first on his list of priorities.
New York is reporting that Jobs held a dinner meeting with some 50 New York Times representatives.
Our source says Jobs, who sat at the head of the “intimate, family-style gathering” with Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, demonstrated the iPad and its functions, and spoke about how it could serve the future of media.
At the iPad launch Apple only mentioned books being available in the accompanying iBookstore. That said, there has been rumblings that Apple is in fact working to bring other kinds of print media, such as magazines, newspapers, and even textbooks to the new iBookstore.
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