“Apple Inc is working to make subscription content available through its News app, giving publishers with paywalls a new way to control who sees their articles, two sources familiar with the matter said,” Jessica Toonkel and Julia Love report for Reuters.
“The move would differentiate Apple News from Facebook’s Instant Articles news offering, which does not offer subscriber-only content, and would likely give Apple a boost as it seeks to distinguish itself from a growing crowd of online news apps,” Toonkel and Love report. “By making paid content available through its News app, Apple would give publishers a way to maintain relationships with readers and perhaps attract new subscribers. It is unclear how Apple would authenticate subscribers or if it would take a cut of payments from readers who become subscribers through the app.”
“Subscriber-only publications that work with Apple News now can either share their articles for free or just share excerpts of articles and direct readers to log on to their own websites for more,” Toonkel and Love report. “Apple said in October that nearly 40 million people were reading Apple News, and the company has worked with more than 100 publishers as of this month.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]