Apple Announces Apple News+ $9.99 a Month Subscription Service With Access to Over 300 Publications

[Defthand]

I agree. As long as you subscribe to 3+ mags this is huge savings.

Is it? Aren't most print subscriptions discounted? Southern Living, for example, is only $1 an issue when you subscribe. Popular Mechanics is only $0.50 an issue! At these rates, you'd have to read at least ten magazine titles every month to equal the value.

 

[slide_to_unlock]

These magazines would look awesome in foldable iPads.

 

[yaxomoxay]

Is it? Aren't most print subscriptions discounted? Southern Living, for example, is only $1 an issue when you subscribe. Popular Mechanics is only $0.50 an issue! At these rates, you'd have to read at least ten magazine titles every month to equal the value.

I think that the "killer app" would be daily newspapers. WSJ, Financial Times, NYT just to name three. Magazines? meh.

 

[Pagemakers]

That really is a great site , going to give this a try.
Got everything i need macworld, mac format, custom pc ,edge, t3, and god knows what else.

Thanks for sharing the link.

And you can share the account amongst others!
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These magazines would look awesome in foldable iPads.

2022 and counting

 

[punterab80]

I was looking for a hook to get me and didn't find it.
I thought it would have to be under $5 to get me to even look at it.
Boy did they miss that mark.
$10/month for listening to a choice of a million songs vs $10/month for a couple of magazines I may look at for a few pages?
No one raised their hand when this price was discussed?

Also, can you say when you start the trial or does it start when you update to new app?

$13.00 a month in Canada... Ouch.

 

[Dahl]

While I feel like I don't need any more content in my life, I like the idea. Isn't it's only a small handful of newspapers that won't let me read everything (article limit per month) Doesn't every magazine seem to put everything online or do they filter out longer articles?

 

[sparky08]

I was hoping to have more choices for newspapers. I like to browse the ChiTrib, WaPo, and NYT. Maybe read one article per day. Not enough to pay for a bunch of subscriptions, but for $10/month, I would have signed up.

Maybe they will add more newspapers over time???

 

[saturn88]

No wonder Apple stock is down today

 

[wolfpackfan]

So I subscribed to News+ on my iPhone. Unfortunately my subscription isn’t recognized on my iPad. When I try to read something it wants me to subscribe again.

 

[GDF]

So, signed up for the trial, but have not figured out how to make the newspapers come up. Magazines are easy, but all I see under WSJ are stories.

 

[alex2792]

Only $9.99 per month to consume Tim Apple approved propaganda? What a deal!

 

[lsbuffs]

I have had a digital subscription to the WSJ for ages, which isn't cheap, so am interested in the new service. I signed up but only see 3-4 curated stories to click on. Maybe I wasn't paying enough attention but when they said News+ came with WSJ access, I assumed you'd get the whole publication.

Certainly not cancelling my existing WSJ subscription until I figure out how to get the whole paper.

 

[wlad]

tried hard to find a workaround to get the apple news+ in the uk but can't seem to manage, anyone had luck getting it in the uk?

thanks

 

[BigMcGuire]

I have had a digital subscription to the WSJ for ages, which isn't cheap, so am interested in the new service. I signed up but only see 3-4 curated stories to click on. Maybe I wasn't paying enough attention but when they said News+ came with WSJ access, I assumed you'd get the whole publication.

Certainly not cancelling my existing WSJ subscription until I figure out how to get the whole paper.

Edit: See https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...300-publications.2174806/page-7#post-27218885 's post. IT works if you open an article in news+ and click on the WSJ title at the top. Using links in article won't work.

 

[Xengo]

tried hard to find a workaround to get the apple news+ in the uk but can't seem to manage, anyone had luck getting it in the uk?

thanks

It's coming later in 2019 for UK folk.

 

[78Bandit]

I’m not sure it is the full WSJ. I read over in 9to5 that it’s some curated version. Can anyone confirm?

I just signed up for the one month trial. The news app doesn't make it easy to browse through articles, but from what I saw most everything was the same between my WSJ app and the News+ app under the major categories. You can eventually get to a screen that has "Top Stories" "U.S." "World" "Business & Finance" "Opinion", and "Life & Arts" at the top to help in drilling down.

The opinion section is lagging by a day or so. There is no market data being shown. Some specialized sections like "The Future of Everything" "WSJ Magazine", "Journal Report" and the CIO, CFO, CMO, and Logistics sections are missing. However, the other sections appear to be fairly complete. I'll do a deeper dive tonight when I get it on my iPad.

 

[wlad]

It's coming later in 2019 for UK folk.

i know that, but i want this now, lol. i'm reading mostly us newspapers anyways. i've been waiting for a news sub like this for a long time.

 

[MJBarnes]

Looks like it is full access ? But I don't know because I have a WSJ subscription too, so I'm not sure if it is pulling from that.... but what I did is this:

Open one of the WSJ stories, then click the links to other stories - looks like it gives full access to wsj.com? The highlighted tab stays on News+ for me, so I don't think it is using my WSJ subscription on the left. But it looks like it gives full WSJ.com access - though I'd like to try this on someone's device that doesn't already have a WSJ subscription.


Edit: Scratch that --- I went and hit Comments and it's using my WSJ subscription.

Just tried that and it is asking me to subscribe to the WSJ even though I have News+.

 

[Pennypacker83]

What about Europe?

 

[jldasch]

A no-brainer to subscribe for a reader like me. I subscribe to many of the titles offered which total far more than this subscription. I'll still have my NYT and WaPo subscriptions which each run far more than this (NYT Sunday in paper form, +digital). I subscribed to the WSJ for 30+ years until the editorial focus became wacko far right wing (if Stephen Moore is a major contributor you are intellectually pure vomit).

 

[Morgenland]

Zactly.

I am glad that I don't participate in Microsoft 365 and Adobe CC, so I have money for this service.

A few important European newspapers (FAZ, Le Monde...) are of course still missing... I'm sure that will soon expand...

Right now America is very interested in itself (AppleCard, News+) that's a pity. Humankind and Life is exciting everywhere.

 

[BigMcGuire]

Just tried that and it is asking me to subscribe to the WSJ even though I have News+.

Edit: see https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...300-publications.2174806/page-7#post-27218885 's post. Looks like it works, just have to hit WSJ title at top after opening an article.

 

[Boyd01]

It's a not-bad price for the WSJ alone, depending on how much of it you can access.

Really. I dropped my WSJ subscription last year when they raised the price to $36/month, which was ridiculous. I don't understand how they could offer full access to the WSJ and all that other stuff for $10. I just cancelled my NY Times Subscription last month because the promotional $10 price was ending, and I wanted to see what this new Apple News app would offer.

 

[Rojaaemon]

The local Barnes & Noble has a similar service for no charge. People can just go in there and have access to hundreds of magazines and periodicals.

Yes, but since I have to carry my iPhone when jogging to support my Watch, I might as well put some magazines in it so I can have Siri read them to me.

 

[cocky jeremy]

I would love to subscribe to this but have no idea if it will ever arrive to Netherlands.

I read this as neanderthals and was trying to catch the joke. LOL.