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.
"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"
It is iNews... Even if it's the same thing for a higher price, it's obviously revolutionary.
Duh.
"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"
It is iNews... Even if it's the same thing for a higher price, it's obviously revolutionary.
Duh.
It's all about the Apple "experience".
It's called the paper, some of still like to read hard copies instead of computer screens.
tion 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.
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.
That's why newspapers will be around for a while. They can not just come up with BS and publish it as fact.
Open Safari
Hit address bar
Type in www.nytimes.com
Enter
Wait
News in 4 simple steps.
LOL like newspapers many times don't publish BS as facts.
lol because it's in print, it's true