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I would really like Apple to offer comic book subscriptions. They are way too expensive on Comixology.

Hear hear!!

I typically eschew piracy, in favor of making sure the creators of the content I consume are fairly compensated.
I remember when the iTunes music store 1st swelled to the point where it would take longer to fire up Napster or whatever & find some track, hoping it was encoded properly and didn’t cut off at some random point near the end of the song, than to just d/l it from Apple & be done with it!
It was the quite reasonable 99¢ price tag that sealed the deal.
Now that there are so many ways to stream or own high quality digital movies, similarly... I can’t see the appeal in bothering to torrent them.
However (quite sadly), comic books is one area where I’d prefer to pay for digital copies of the comics I read, but few are available from the publisher, and I end up d/l them elsewhere. The CBR scene is vibrant enough & the MCU/DCU franchises have shined enough light on this fabulous medium, that there’s ample opportunity to make ridiculous sums of money providing legit CBR copies of all titles, every Wednesday.
Or an “all you can eat” service.
When I was still buying physical copies, my tab was around $120/mo.
(that’s like 10-12 titles/week)
Obviously, reading them, sans owning something that has the potential of increasing in value, can’t command the same price, but at 99¢ per comic... they’d likely get $40+ out of me per month- making any “all access” service that price or less, look attractive.
 
I read many magazines on an iPhone. Most magazines have decent support for reading on a mobile device. Texture isn’t one of them. It basically has PDFs of magazines, which requires lots of zooming in and out, text isn’t responsive to the viewport, etc.
I had two other subscription services at different times, magshop which also was zooming in on pdf style which wasn't as good as the other one I tried Zinio which had better quality but more expensive subscription.

A mag subscription service from Apple at $9.99 USD/$15+AUD is doomed to fail.
 
I would really like Apple to offer comic book subscriptions. They are way too expensive on Comixology.

The regular 99c sales make it worthwhile but I'm pretty sure they keep the prices high so as not to entirely kill comic book stores...

Marvel Unlimited is worth the monthly subscription btw - so much content and just six months behind the full pricey new releases
 
My local public library offers online access to hundreds of digital magazines and newspapers, all for free to anyone with a library card (through Zinio and Pressreader). It's worth checking with your library first to see what they offer. If they have the publications you're interested in, you can save a substantial amount of money. You're paying for the library through your taxes anyway, so you may as well benefit from it.
 
Hopefully this is why the Apple News app has been stalled in handful of the original countries. If they’re relaunching it as a subscription service, it wouldn’t make sense to pursue other countries for the original app. Instead, I hope they’re striking the deals to relaunch Apple News more broadly.
 
Hopefully this is why the Apple News app has been stalled in handful of the original countries. If they’re relaunching it as a subscription service, it wouldn’t make sense to pursue other countries for the original app. Instead, I hope they’re striking the deals to relaunch Apple News more broadly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/apple-news-humans-algorithms.html

From what I have heard, Apple news stalled because Apple still hasn’t figured out how to effectively scale it in multiple countries. Apple is actually hiring actual journalists to curate your news feed, which is different from say, google using AI to scan your browser history and recommend you only articles that you would have read.

There’s a lot more going on behind the scenes than the news app being just another RSS feed.

It’s one thing to hire 30 journalists in one country, it’s another to to do this in every country they wish to expand to.
 
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/apple-news-humans-algorithms.html

From what I have heard, Apple news stalled because Apple still hasn’t figured out how to effectively scale it in multiple countries. Apple is actually hiring actual journalists to curate your news feed, which is different from say, google using AI to scan your browser history and recommend you only articles that you would have read.

There’s a lot more going on behind the scenes than the news app being just another RSS feed.

It’s one thing to hire 30 journalists in one country, it’s another to to do this in every country they wish to expand to.

It was reported that Apple hired a team in Canada. That was almost 2 years ago and still no Apple News in Canada. I’m guessing that they’re taking a different approach since acquiring Texture.

Rather than try to curate news for each country, give publishers a platform to reach readers and access to a per read based commission like Apple Music. Let the reader decide what to subscribe to and then make suggestions based on an algorithm.
 
Rather than try to curate news for each country, give publishers a platform to reach readers and access to a per read based commission like Apple Music. Let the reader decide what to subscribe to and then make suggestions based on an algorithm.

Apple seems to be going the opposite route. Supposedly part of their bid to counteract fake news and bubbles and all by playing an active hand in deciding what the reader sees.

We will see how it pans out. I know I don’t need another RSS reader for one.
 
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