News Corp Considering Dedicated News Product for Tablets
CNBC reports that News Corp, the Rupert Murdoch-led media conglomerate behind such outlets as The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and The New York Post, is considering launching a new news unit dedicated to content for tablet devices such as the iPad.
Sources close to the company tell me that the company is considering creating a new purely digital news play that would be designed for the app world and would be available through subscription on devices like the iPad.
This new digital news venture would incorporate text, photo and video, tailored for the iTunes app format .... neither a newspaper nor a news website -- it would not be based on any of News Corp's existing papers.
While News Corp has already established a precedent for subscription-based iPad content through its Web-administered offerings for The Wall Street Journal, other content providers seeking to deploy subscription-based content, such as Time Inc.'s Sports Illustrated magazine, have been butting heads with Apple, possibly over either revenue sharing or subscriber information sharing.
Fortune is another one of Time Inc.'s brands that has not been able to reach a deal with Apple for subscription pricing, as the magazine's iPad application rolled out today using a model similar to that employed by other content providers. The free download comes with a demo issue, but future issues will have to be purchased individually through the application at $4.99 per issue.
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20 months ago
I don't think it's about the revenue sharing that Apple is withholding subscription option for Time Inc but rather the collection of user data.
20 months ago
I wouldn't read a News Corp rag if you paid me.
Yeah, I guess for it to succeed it would have to be good content :rolleyes:
Murdoch will eff it up anyway. He's too greedy and out of touch. In his mind it's still 1950.
20 months ago
Out freaking standing! I would love more quality FoxNews on my iPhone and iPad. Their iPhone app is already excellent by the way.
20 months ago
This is Murdoch we're talking about here. This stuff ain't gonna be cheap.
...or factual. Or fair and balanced. Or contain any journalistic integrity. ;)
20 months ago
...or factual. Or fair and balanced. Or contain any journalistic integrity. ;)
Perhaps they should add Gizmodo to the fold...
20 months ago
I wouldn't read a News Corp rag if you paid me.
So that statement stands behind the WSJ then too, right?
20 months ago
Perhaps they should add Gizmodo to the fold...
as long as Glenn Beck is hired by news Corp Gizmodo seems like a golden child
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