For the vast majority of news outlets, Apple’s cut of a subscription sold on an iPhone will now drop from 30% to 15%. Will that change any publishers’ minds?
Instead of taking 30% of new subscribers’ payments, it’ll take 15%. The money’s welcome, but it’s also a reminder of how little control publishers have over the terms they get from tech giants.
Publishers can get a 21 percent jump in the revenue they get to keep from long-term customers — but is the subscription space on iPhones and iPads about to get too crowded?
Getting online readers to pay for news is a challenge, but the new BostonGlobe.com offers hope for newspapers that want to create an app-like experience but control their own distribution.
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Coddington, Mark. "This Week in Review, Apple edition: A Newsstand, a concession, and one newspaper’s challenge to apps." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 10 Jun. 2011. Web. 25 Apr. 2024.
APA
Coddington, M. (2011, Jun. 10). This Week in Review, Apple edition: A Newsstand, a concession, and one newspaper’s challenge to apps. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 25, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2011/06/this-week-in-review-apple-edition-a-newsstand-a-concession-and-one-newspapers-challenge-to-apps/
Chicago
Coddington, Mark. "This Week in Review, Apple edition: A Newsstand, a concession, and one newspaper’s challenge to apps." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified June 10, 2011. Accessed April 25, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2011/06/this-week-in-review-apple-edition-a-newsstand-a-concession-and-one-newspapers-challenge-to-apps/.
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