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Re:Apple News Service Said to Feature WSJ for $10 a month, W... by esun on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @09:30PM (#19448581)
Former newspaper industry employee here... This is a mistake by the WSJ. They would be better served by reducing their ridiculous digital subscription fees and skipping Apple's extortionate gatekeeping "service".

The newspaper industry was founded on (although nobody really understood it until the invention of the internet) being the intermediary between consumers and companies. In 2019 the business has changed to content provision. But these old line companies (and who is older line than Apple and the WSJ?) can't help but try to discover intermediary points of control.

Pah.

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Re:Apple News Service Said to Feature WSJ for $10 a month, W... by sneeze-slayer on Thursday March 21, 2019 @10:23AM (#19452650)
The WSJ online costs $39 per month, but the print copy costs $43 per month. It's pretty crazy, because I would expect the physical paper to cost much more than the online version.
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