Time Inc., whose magazines include Sports Illustrated, People and Time, applauded Apple for allowing publishers to
sell app subscriptions, but said it still has questions about access to customer information.
Not exact matches
Apple said consumers had paid for more than 270 million
subscriptions for its services or ones
sold via its
App Store, up from roughly 170 million a year earlier.
It also gets a cut of
subscriptions sold by third - party
apps on the
App Store.
On the issue of how to support Canadian content when fewer Canadians are purchasing cable TV
subscriptions, the government tested four options to raise new money for Canadian content: making telecom companies divert some smartphone and Internet revenue; requiring «foreign companies like Netflix and iTunes» to devote a portion of revenues; giving consumers the option of making a voluntary $ 2 contribution on their telecom or Netflix bill; or making telecom companies add an
app to every smartphone
sold in Canada that would provide access to Canadian music, TV and film for between $ 5 and $ 15 a month or a flat charge of $ 3 on the sale of all smartphones.
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In the end Apple is still allowing people to
sell subscriptions in its
app but not insisting upon it and making it mandatory.
How this plays out is anyone's guess, but it is good news for Spotify, which can continue
selling subscriptions outside of its
app and Amazon can continue to
sell books via its own website.
In a rare 180, Apple now allows publishers to set pricing for
subscriptions while no longer requiring them to
sell subscriptions within the
App Store.
Deep in the announcement today by Apple regarding the
subscription plan they are instituting for magazine and other media publishers (the
subscription plan is okay, in my opinion, as I explained in the previous post) is a sentence about a prohibition against links inside an
app to website stores where a user can purchase a digital product that could be
sold through Apple's iTunes Store.
More importantly for the paper,
subscriptions are now
sold through the
app, not through other parties like Apple's newsstand or Google checkout.
So, without poking around for leads yet, we think that Apple will choose the path of nurturing third parties, including the Amazons and ScrollMotions of the world, and even publishers
selling directly to consumers — and collecting a 30 % cut off any in -
app iTunes commerce or
subscriptions instead.
Exact Editions launched by focusing on the consumer magazine space and
selling subscriptions direct to consumers and through
app stores.
If you do have kids who will be using the HDX, the tablet's parental controls and Freetime service, which lets them download an unlimited amount of kid - friendly books, games,
apps, and videos for as little as $ 3 a month (with an Amazon Prime
subscription), may also be a
selling point.
However, Apple does require that if a publisher chooses to
sell a digital
subscription separately outside of the
app, that same
subscription offer must be made available, at the same price or less, to customers who wish to subscribe from within the
app.
To summarize: publishers are allowed to
sell subscriptions on their own websites, but if they do, they must also allow for in -
app purchase of said
subscription, and there has to be pricing parity between the two methods.
In May 2011, Hearst became one of the first major publishers to reach an agreement with Apple to
sell in -
app magazine
subscriptions.
That speaks to a still - growing market for
apps and games as well as the potential for developers to generate new revenue streams by way of
subscriptions sold through their
apps.
Facebook in October introduced a new feature designed to let publishers
sell subscriptions to their news sites directly on Facebook, but the social network could not work out a deal with Apple, preventing the news
subscription options from being available on Facebook for iOS.At issue was Apple's demand for its standard 30 percent cut of any
subscription revenue brought in through the Facebook iOS
app, while Facebook wanted all money to go to publishers.At today's Code Media event, Facebook executive Campbell Brown said the dispute with Apple had been resolved, which means the
subscription service tool will launch on iOS devices on March 1.
On the software front however, the yard sale is on over at Google Play, where you can get Android games starting at $ 0.99, 50 percent off
apps and
subscriptions, music albums for as little as a buck, movies from $ 6, best -
selling books at $ 2 and up, magazines, family games, and so on and so forth.