Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscription models

Re:Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscript... by amelius on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @06:00PM (#14808382)

I always wondered why nobody implemented an App store for news and magazine articles that can be accessed through the internet (i.e. not device specific).

Why didn't Amazon do this? Or Apple? Google?

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Re:Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscript... by caryhartline on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @06:33PM (#14808593)

It would be against the interests of Google for people to subscribe/pay for articles rather than searching through Google News for ad-supported articles.

It's against Apple's interests to do anything that isn't device-specific and the same could probably be said about Amazon & Kindle.

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Re:Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscript... by amelius on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @06:57PM (#14808729)

True. However, it can be against your interests, but you should always consider: what if someone else does this.

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Re:Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscript... by epmaybe on Thursday July 20, 2017 @08:31AM (#14811864)

I knew a few people that were trying to do this, but I'm not sure they succeeded.

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