Apple Planning Newspaper Subscription Service
Apple has already taken on the cable TV industry with streaming service to provide users with the latest TV episodes and movies. However, it seems the Cupertino-based company is also interested in entering the newspaper subscription business.
The San Jose Mercury News reports that Apple will soon give the print media industry a helping hand by offering subscriptions via its iPad tablet. Mercury News cites industry sources that say Apple has agreed to provide an opt-in function for subscribers that would allow Apple to share subscribers' information with publishers. Publishers could use this information to collect data vital to attracting advertisers.
Mercury News also spoke to Roger Fidler, head of digital publishing at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute in Columbia, Mo., who said Apple could take a 30 percent cut of all subscriptions sold through the App Store, and as much as 40 percent of the advertising revenue from publications' apps.
Several smaller newspapers and magazines already have iPad applications and provide users with content using a subscription model. It's not clear if Apple's service would include magazine subscriptions.
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Why would you subscribe to a payed news service?!?!? There is plenty of free news sources on the Interwebs...
iNews:
"Todays Headlines:
-You are actually paying for the same thing you can find for free, loser
-You are paying more than you need to for a PC
-You are Reading it wrong.
-Steve Jobs"
Why would you subscribe to a payed news service?!?!? There is plenty of free news sources on the Interwebs...
It is iNews... Even if it's the same thing for a higher price, it's obviously revolutionary.
Duh.
Why would you subscribe to a payed news service?!?!? There is plenty of free news sources on the Interwebs...
It's all about the Apple "experience".
Why would you subscribe to a payed news service?!?!? There is plenty of free news sources on the Interwebs...
It's called the paper, some of still like to read hard copies instead of computer screens.
I can't believe we're paying for something that we cat get on web for free. If you ask me, everybody on this subscrip
tion is a giant sucker.
I can't believe we're paying for something that we cat get on web for free. If you ask me, everybody on this subscription is a giant sucker.
Apple will keep finding new ways to milk every penny out of it's sheep. The funboys will of course buy it just because Apple says it's a good product.
It's called the paper, some of still like to read hard copies instead of computer screens.
And reading it on an iPad is not a computer screen?? I think Shadow was not putting down the regular news paper service, just a paid for digital form that you could get for free else where online.
I like a hardcopy newspaper, but this does seem like something somebody who buys apple products would get.
Of course if folks like $teve Job$ and Rup€rt Murdo¢h got their way, you'd have to "subscribe" to everything on the internet. This is why I worry about net neutrality, so long as these losers are behind a paywall we can just ignore them, but if media companies start paying for traffic shaping for "premium content" this could have extremely undesirable effects for everyone else.
Newspapers still have validity. Sure, there are plenty of free online sources, but how many of those free sources are required to ensure that their information is true????????????????????????????????????
That's why newspapers will be around for a while. They can not just come up with BS and publish it as fact.
I don't understand...
Open Safari
Hit address bar
Type in www.nytimes.com
Enter
Wait
News in 4 simple steps.
That is great news for those who have the need to advertise their douchebaggery where electronic devices are prohibited.
Newspapers still have validity. Sure, there are plenty of free online sources, but how many of those free sources are required to ensure that their information is true????????????????????????????????????That's why newspapers will be around for a while. They can not just come up with BS and publish it as fact.
LOL like newspapers many times don't publish BS as facts.
Newspapers still have validity. Sure, there are plenty of free online sources, but how many of those free sources are required to ensure that their information is true????????????????????????????????????That's why newspapers will be around for a while. They can not just come up with BS and publish it as fact.
lol because it's in print, it's true