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I'm sure I'll get downvoted for this again but - Apple are the only player who have bothered to implement a subscription model. No competition! Once Android do
by Synaesthesia 16y ago
I'm sure I'll get downvoted for this again but - Apple are the only player who have bothered to implement a subscription model. No competition! Once Android do it (and the others) and they become popular enough to compete, Apple may feel the pressure and drop the 30% rate.
30% sounds like a lot but if I would take it if I were a publisher - there's still room to make much more profit than a print operation - no need for presses, ink, paper etc. I mean the 70% you get is pure profit basically.
- Kylekramer 16y agoExcept they aren't the only player. Netflix, Amazon, NYT, the list goes on and on. Any major subscription service has a way to get users to subscribe via the web today. And Apple didn't just introduce a subscription model today, they introduced a subscription model that directly attacks any other model if they want to be on iOS.
- juiceandjuice 16y agoThis isn't a subscription model. It's a middleman model.
- runevault 16y agoIf you ignore the fact many of those content providers are themselves middlemen. Amazon just resells the content of others, and any ebook is 30% for anything under 2.99 and over 9.99, but everything between those price points amazon's cut is only 30%, so with said model they literally can NOT agree to these changes.