Associated Press announces paid iPad subscription service

Mark Gurman
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February 26, 2010
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Today, the Associated Press announced that they will be offering a paid subscription to their content for their readers with iPads, though the service may start out as a free app.  We're not quite sure how this will differentiate itself from the free AP feeds that are already available on the Internet and wonder what the incentive would be to pay for a special AP app.

This will be one of the first moves for the news agency's new AP Gateway division.

"AP Gateway will serve as the launching pad for new products and services from AP and other interested news publishers."

The new applications for delivering content immediately will be available throughout the ecosystem of recently announced mobile reading devices such as the iPad. It has not been said yet how much this service would cost or if Apple will be taking its standard 30% cut of the profits. Currently the Associated Press offers a free push notification-based application on the iPhone App Store.

via MacObserver.

 

Comments (8)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | February 26, 2010 - 7:26pm

I will pay AP exactly what it is worth - nothing.

pmz | February 27, 2010 - 4:29am

That's a pretty ignorant comment considering the AP is one of the few not completely censored news outlets.

But I, likewise, will view their website happily thru Safari, and would never dream of paying for the same free content.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | February 27, 2010 - 10:07am

If a bucket of shit is worth something to you, who am I to judge? Enjoy your prize.

"Not completely censored", WTF? By whom and for what purpose? Any similarity to the "Un-Fairness Doctrine" to suppress dissident speech, forced propagandizing, and violate the First Amendment.

Consider yourself "not completely intelligent", "barely intelligible", and "scarcely honest".

macaddicted (not verified) | February 26, 2010 - 8:06pm

1. Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/)
2. Gmail.
3. Stanza

Download via Calibre, email from Calibre to Stanza through a Gmail account. Free all the way through.

May not be up to date moment to moment, but what do you expect for free.

OSXDex.com (not verified) | February 27, 2010 - 8:10am

I'm sure AP has a thoroughly prepared business plan for this. I cannot imagine them selling something what will be available for free on their website. It will most likely be premium vs lite content type of a setup.
Something like: the website will not give you everything what the iPad app would.

I don't know. But it I'm definitely curious what this pioneering move will do to the rest of the news world.

As to the first comment about AP being worth nothing: they are uncensored (as far as we know) and are one of the largest providers of news to everyone else. Their broadcast is solid, dependable and fair. Same as Reuters.

SummerRunner (not verified) | February 28, 2010 - 5:12pm

Waiting to get an iPad... I've passed on every reader to date waiting for something super to come along - with internet access on a 3G network, it should be great!

mhda2007 | March 25, 2010 - 6:08am

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Engineering (not verified) | April 14, 2010 - 10:51am

Engineering VideoI cannot imagine them selling something what will be available for free on their website. It will most likely be premium vs lite content type of a setup.