A”pple did not respond to a request for comment,” Boudreau reports. “But Roger Fidler, head of digital publishing at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute in Columbia, Mo., said Apple probably will take a 30 percent cut of all subscriptions sold through the company’s online App Store, and as much as 40 percent of the advertising revenue from publications’ apps.”
“The Cupertino company has agreed to provide an opt-in function for subscribers to allow Apple to share with publishers their information, which includes vital data that news organizations use to attract advertisers, industry sources say,” Boudreau reports. “Publishers ‘want the data of their customers so they can integrate it into their circulation database so they know who their customers are,’ said Fidler, who works with many newspapers.”
Boudreau reports, “While a handful of national papers already offer app subscriptions to iPad users, major metropolitan papers across the country are getting ready to roll out their own publication apps and have been in discussions with Apple.”
Full article here.
Bang – this will get studios thinking twice about getting on board with Apple TV licensing…
When it comes to selling print content Apple is getting it’s ass handed to it by Amazon. Kindle (device-not app) has offered newspapers and magazines for prices LOWER than print, AD FREE, sonic the launch of the first Kindle. The app model for overpriced magazines and newspapers loaded with ads is BS and does not work.
When it comes to selling print content Apple is getting it’s ass handed to it by Amazon. Kindle (device-not app) has offered newspapers and magazines for prices LOWER than print, AD FREE, sonic the launch of the first Kindle. The app model for overpriced magazines and newspapers loaded with ads is BS and does not work.
When it comes to selling print content Apple is getting it’s ass handed to it by Amazon. Kindle (device-not app) has offered newspapers and magazines for prices LOWER than print, AD FREE, sonic the launch of the first Kindle. The app model for overpriced magazines and newspapers loaded with ads is BS and does not work.
When it comes to selling print content Apple is getting it’s ass handed to it by Amazon. Kindle (device-not app) has offered newspapers and magazines for prices LOWER than print, AD FREE, sonic the launch of the first Kindle. The app model for overpriced magazines and newspapers loaded with ads is BS and does not work.
When it comes to selling print content Apple is getting it’s ass handed to it by Amazon. Kindle (device-not app) has offered newspapers and magazines for prices LOWER than print, AD FREE, sonic the launch of the first Kindle. The app model for overpriced magazines and newspapers loaded with ads is BS and does not work.
When it comes to selling print content Apple is getting it’s ass handed to it by Amazon. Kindle (device-not app) has offered newspapers and magazines for prices LOWER than print, AD FREE, sonic the launch of the first Kindle. The app model for overpriced magazines and newspapers loaded with ads is BS and does not work.
When it comes to selling print content Apple is getting it’s ass handed to it by Amazon. Kindle (device-not app) has offered newspapers and magazines for prices LOWER than print, AD FREE, sonic the launch of the first Kindle. The app model for overpriced magazines and newspapers loaded with ads is BS and does not work.
This is exactly what I wanted when I bought the iPad. I like the usatoday app so hopefully some of these will be similar.
For the last few months I’ve enjoyed using the “Newspapers” app to read newspapers from around the world. The only problem (not really even a problem) with that app is that the app links to just the digital versions of the individual newspapers. If Apple’s rumored foray into newspaper subscriptions includes the actual print newspaper then I may be very interested.
About freakin time.
Hmm… I can get he paper Wall St Journal delivery everyday to your house for $100 a year, this requires a printing press and a delivery service…
Or I can pay $5/ week (or $260/year) to have the priveledge of getting a digital copy sent to my ipad.
Digital version should be at most half of what the paper version costs, s if they go to a $0/yr WSJ I’m in..
I wonder if the geniuses at the publications and apple are thinking Why isn’t anyone signing up t buy our inflated price digital newspapers??
I’d be all on board with subscribing to newspapers through the iPad except for two things.
1) most newspapers are already online for free
2) most online newspapers websites look like complete sh*t. They need to tighten up the layout and get all the visual vomit off the page.
Apple takes another 30 or 40 percent cut from another market!
Apple just got that BILLION DOLLAR SERVER FARM up in time to feed the iOS devices!
Pricing is why I quickly pass by “newpaper and magazine” apps, not to mention and this is a biggie…
CONTENT!
Just as some here would say BS to a publication in the Rupert Murdoch Empire, others would say BS to the New York Times as a vaunted source of factual and accurate information… Same for AP!
So going digital, you’ll still have the same divide. Just have to wonder if those that are profitable in print now will remain profitable in digital and those losing subscribers and ad revenue, NYT-cough, will continue to shrink and has to hold on to it’s legacy as a means of relevancy! Until, that is, the government has a bail out for them, so they can continue to write favorable stories versus non-favorable 2 to 1 (or more) for NYT’s “their guy”!
Why do companies need to go through Apple to offer subscriptions? I never have figured that out. I have paid online subscriptions now and I just go to their web page and get it / read it. No need to go through Apple for that kind of subscription.
What is the point of having to go through Apple anyway? Or at least what is the advantage?
Ask NewzCrap what happened when The Times & Sunday Times went behind a paywall. In case you didn’t read about it, the bottom fell out on site visits. Total Meltdown.
Second, when you consider that 30-50% of a paper is ADVERTISING & well over half if the non-ad content is AP, what are you paying for?
Ask NewzCrap what happened when The Times & Sunday Times went behind a paywall. In case you didn’t read about it, the bottom fell out on site visits. Total Meltdown.
Second, when you consider that 30-50% of a paper is ADVERTISING & well over half if the non-ad content is AP, what are you paying for?
Ask NewzCrap what happened when The Times & Sunday Times went behind a paywall. In case you didn’t read about it, the bottom fell out on site visits. Total Meltdown.
Second, when you consider that 30-50% of a paper is ADVERTISING & well over half if the non-ad content is AP, what are you paying for?
Ask NewzCrap what happened when The Times & Sunday Times went behind a paywall. In case you didn’t read about it, the bottom fell out on site visits. Total Meltdown.
Second, when you consider that 30-50% of a paper is ADVERTISING & well over half if the non-ad content is AP, what are you paying for?
Ask NewzCrap what happened when The Times & Sunday Times went behind a paywall. In case you didn’t read about it, the bottom fell out on site visits. Total Meltdown.
Second, when you consider that 30-50% of a paper is ADVERTISING & well over half if the non-ad content is AP, what are you paying for?
Ask NewzCrap what happened when The Times & Sunday Times went behind a paywall. In case you didn’t read about it, the bottom fell out on site visits. Total Meltdown.
Second, when you consider that 30-50% of a paper is ADVERTISING & well over half if the non-ad content is AP, what are you paying for?
Ask NewzCrap what happened when The Times & Sunday Times went behind a paywall. In case you didn’t read about it, the bottom fell out on site visits. Total Meltdown.
Second, when you consider that 30-50% of a paper is ADVERTISING & well over half if the non-ad content is AP, what are you paying for?
Last sentence of full article: “Obviously, Steve Jobs sees this as a significant revenue stream for Apple in the future,” Fidler said.
People often ascribe a profit motive to Mr. Jobs, but overlook his passion for transforming the world. Sure, the two objectives coexist, but I think his and Apple’s motivation is to reinvent and radically improve.
The newspaper business is in a painful transition. It will take an insanely great solution for papers to go paperless.
I have a couple of subscriptions, through the zinio app. One, sporting news daily, is fantastic—very inexpensive (seriously, like a few cents a day), around 60 pages a day, very nice read for the train in the morning. I also got a sterephile subscription, only $10 for the year, for full mag including ads. I don’t mind print ads, you just swipe by them, and for stereophile half the reason for getting the print mag is the ads.
The only problem ive seen is that zinio doesn’t push subscriptions onto the pad. My iPad is wifi only, so I have to manually update every morning.
But whats going to happen to paper routes and quarter newspaper stands?