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Apple wants half of the revenue in the case of Netflix for News

Apple is negotiating with US media houses, according to a report in the newspaper about a new subscription offer, the contents of various providers for a month

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Apple wants half of the revenue in the case of Netflix for News

Apple is negotiating with US media houses, according to a report in the newspaper about a new subscription offer, the contents of various providers for a monthly fee. The technology group wants half of the revenue for themselves.

The iPhone company wants to keep this "Netflix for News" an exceptionally high revenue share of about 50 percent, wrote the "Wall Street Journal" late on Tuesday, citing informed persons. The push to resistance at the publishing houses. They were also unhappy that they would get to Apple's plans, neither E-Mail addresses, credit card numbers of subscribers, it said.

The proportion of a media company should be divided between them according to the time, the users with your content, spend more, reported the "Wall Street Journal". Apple in talks with publishers for a monthly price of around ten dollars - even if he could still change, it said. With several large media like the "New York Times" and the "Washington Post," there is still no agreement. The "Wall Street Journal" even the most recent negotiations with Apple, in spite of concerns had been "productive". Apple had no comment on the report.

Lower share Apps, music, and Games

The Website "Buzzfeed" wrote a little later, the subscription Service for news content could be in an Apple-Event am 25. March will be presented. Such a range is already speculated for some time. Apple bought almost a year ago already, the App "Texture", which is granted on a subscription Basis, access to a variety of magazines.

The sale of digital content such as Apps, music or virtual goods in Games has established a revenue split of 70 percent to the authors and 30 percent to the platform operator. Apple lowered some time ago, however, the share of subscription fees to 15 percent after the first year. The charges caused, for example, that Netflix stopped in the past year, in order to sell subscriptions via the Apple platform. (sda)

Created: 13.02.2019, 07:34 PM

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