Where are apps all the iOS magazine subscription?

Sports Illustrated is the latest prestigious magazine publisher to offer an iPad Edition. It is a nice-looking product, btw. The app itself is free, and it provides an example of what is coming. It joins the like of time, wired, Newsweek... but which currently have all the same limitation: you can only not report individual questions to buy a year subscription. Worse still, that seem to think you can charge the full print unit price for each iPad Edition most of you.

I bought the initial wired Edition for $ 4.99 but I buy the second one. Played on the weekend I was around clear a bit with the wired iPad Edition me but never finished it read.In fact, I'm more likely to read the printed copy, that I sit on my desk as the iPad Version.Und since I get the print version for $ 10 / year, why in the world would even think about the payment of $ 4.99 per iPad output?
I am certainly not the first on this blog, and I doubt, I be the last. What I understand, but, after Apple made possible months, none of the big guys, your magazines to sell reason app subscription?

You have with Apple's 30% cut do? Try that find a way to get this and sell directly?This is what Amazon tut.Wenn a Kindle Edition about the iPad app will buy actually only directly from the browser you through iTunes to buy. I'm assuming Amazon therefore not Apple pay a dime to the transaction. Why want magazine publishers not the same, especially on longer term subscriptions to do?

Of course, with magazines and newspapers, which are not exactly the most up-to-date talking about publishers when it comes to technology solutions. you are still on your print models as much as possible hold.Why else would I get 2-3 "Please come back" every month snail mails from BusinessWeek? So all this magazine/newspaper publishers are probably independently, each trying to come with their own direct sales app/tool Betrieb.Ich wondering how much time and money is wasted because you don't work together to.

Here is a crazy idea: perhaps you should do it all by Amazon.Wenn Amazon were smart, drag one would end-around to Apple and say magazine/newspaper publishers, "hey, your subscriptions by us sell... we not calculated you 30% like Apple... how about 20% or even 10%?"Amazon has the infrastructure in place to push content of the iPad and terrific customer service operation, so why you should use your platform for something like this not?

A potential case is that Apple might decide it was OK for Amazon, their books for the iPad without a percentage, but if you go to be distributors for the platform, magazine/newspaper, Amazon's iPad access are truncated to sell.We hope not.After all, if Amazon could this on, it would create a very healthy competition with Apple, and that would probably be a good thing for consumers.

Editor's Note: the above is reprinted with permission from Joe Wikert's publishing 2020 Blog.PB

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