Conde Nast announced plans to bring back the shuttered Gourmet Magazine as a free iPad app that gets users to pay for free stuff along the way with virtual currency, Farmville style.

The iPad is pumping hope into the dying print industry, so if the Gourmet model works when it comes out in the Fall, it may well be joined by some fellow resurrected glossy corpses.

What rag would you most like to see Lazarused on e-readers?

Gourmet Lives! ‘Pity’ Says Ruth Reichl [New York Observer via The Awl]

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