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I think Readability's model is a little presumptuous. Why do they get to decide unilaterally that they deserve 30% of the revenue? It's not like the App Store

by athst 15y ago

I think Readability's model is a little presumptuous. Why do they get to decide unilaterally that they deserve 30% of the revenue? It's not like the App Store where you agreed to it. Given all the work that goes into creating an article, is extracting the text worth 30%? If I was a publisher, I wouldn't think so. To me, Instapaper's approach is much more straightforward. You have to have gone to the publisher's site in the first place and seen all of the ads. You pay a flat fee for the Instapaper app, and can subscribe if you like the service. Why make it more complicated than it has to be?

ryanwatkins 15y ago
Yes, Instapapers model is more straight forward, but you do not have to go to the publishers site and seen the ads, to add the article. Instapaper provides and API to add links without visiting the site that is used by a number of other applications. And I've written an app (http://www.ryanwatkins.net/software/papermache http://www.ryanwatkins.net/software/papermache - webOS and Android Instapaper app) that allows you to browser a feed of articles and add them to Instapaper directly.
masklinn 15y ago
> You have to have gone to the publisher's site in the first place and seen all of the ads Not entirely correct, there's an integrated API which lets third-party applications add articles to Instapaper. Many applications (Reeder for instance, or quite a few Twitter clients) have this feature.