In-App Sales and iTablet: The Killer Combo to Save Publishing?

October 16th, 2009 admin

Apple on Thursday made a subtle yet major revision to its App Store policy, enabling extra content to be sold through free iPhone apps. It’s a move that immediately impacts the publishing industry, and it could pay even bigger dividends if the Cupertino company indeed delivers its highly anticipated touchscreen tablet. While the most obvious beneficiaries would be app developers, a market segment that can also benefit from the new in-app commerce model are people and companies that create content and need to set up shop in a way that doesn’t, in effect, charge someone for just walking in — like media publishers. Newspapers and magazines are reportedly in talks with Apple about repurposing their content onto a “new device,” presumably the…


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