Apple debuts ‘News+’ subscription service that lets users access over 300 magazines for $10 per month
- Apple News+ features content from over 300 magazines and news publications
- The subscription costs $10 per month and users can sign up for it starting today
- It’s essentially a paid version of the News app that also features curated articles
- Comes as Apple debuted its new Arcade platform and two new video services
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Apple has launched a new subscription service for journalism junkies.
Called Apple News+, it’s a paid tier of Apple’s traditional News app that gives users access to more than 300 magazine titles and content from select news organizations, led by the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times.
The tech titan unveiled Apple News+ alongside a blitz of other subscription-focused announcements at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California on Monday afternoon.
For $10 a month, subscribers can receive a curated mix of magazine titles and news headlines, as well as interactive content like live covers.
Apple News+ is available for sign-up starting today and the first month is free.
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Apple has launched a new service for journalism junkies. Called Apple News+, it’s a paid tier of the News app and gives users access to over 300 magazine titles and select news publications
WHAT TITLES ARE ON APPLE NEWS+?
- The Atlantic
- Better Homes & Gardens
- Bon Appetit
- Conde Nast Traveler
- ELLE
- Entertainment Weekly
- ESPN
- Esquire
- Food & Wine
- Good Housekeeping
- GQ
- Health
- InStyle
- Martha Stewart Living
- National Geographic
- New York Magazine
- The New Yorker
- O The Oprah Magazine
- Parents
- People
- Real Simple
- Rolling Stone
- Runner’s World
- Sports Illustrated
- TIME
- Travel + Leisure
- Vanity Fair
- Vogue
- WIRED
- Woman’s Day 2
Additionally, the monthly fee allows for users to share their subscription with up to six family members.
Among the magazine titles available in the service include The Atlantic, Bon Appetit, People, Essence, National Geographic, Vogue and Sports Illustrated.
In addition to news publishers, News Plus will also feature content from digital news sites like Vox, theSkimm, New York Magazine’s The Cut, TechCrunch and others.
Notably absent are major news publications like The New York Times and the Washington Post, however.
The selection is likely helped by Apple’s acquisition last March of magazine subscription service Texture.
The company believes the service will transform how users get their news by offering a bundle of subscriptions for a flat fee.
It would cost users more than $8,000 per year to subscribe to every publication available in Apple News+; instead, Apple is offering users access for $9.99 each month.
Apple has been working on the News+ app over the past three years to develop the ‘best of the magazine experience.’
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The tech titan unveiled Apple News+ alongside a blitz of other Services-focused announcements at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California on Monday afternoon
Users get access to 300-plus titles. Among the magazine titles available in the service include The Atlantic, Bon Appetit, People, Essence, National Geographic, Vogue and Sports Illustrated
‘We wanted to create the best magazine reading experience ever for a mobile device with over 300 magazines across everything from fashion and entertainment to politics,’ Roger Rosner, Apple’s vice president of applications, said on stage.
It will first launch in the US and Canada, before coming to the UK and Australia this fall.
Apple News users will still have access to the free experience if they don’t want to pay for the upgraded service.
Those who do shell out the extra money, however, will also be able to access both current and past issues or individual articles from a number of magazines.
The app features a variety of visually interesting content, such as animated covers, bold typography and eye-catching photography, the company said.
Apple CEO Tim Cook details the firm’s news subscription service on stage at the ‘Show Time’ event in Steve Jobs Theater. For $10 a month, users can access more than 300 magazines
When users click on the ‘Today’ tab, it will show curated recommendations for magazines and articles.
This means that subscribers won’t get access to all content published by news outlets.
Instead, they’ll see hand-picked titles from Apple’s ‘human curators’ based on general interest news.
Apple said it designed the app to be easy to use, while keeping your personal information ‘private and secure.’
The firm said it will somehow prevent advertisers from tracking users around the app and it won’t let them track users’ reading history.
‘What you read in Apple News+ will not follow you across the web,’ Rosner said.
The debut of Apple News+ came as the firm revealed a slew of other services.
At its ‘Show Time’ event, Apple also took the wraps off of its two new video offerings, Apple TV+ and Apple TV Channels, alongside a new game subscription service called Apple Arcade.
It also surprised viewers with a branded titanium credit card called the Apple Card.
WHAT IS APPLE ARCADE?
Apple is launching a subscription-based gaming service that will let users play across mobile, desktop, and Apple TV.
Called Apple Arcade, the platform will live as a tab inside the App Store and gives users access to more than 100 new and exclusive games, the firm says.
It will feature games from Annapurna Interactive, Bossa Studios, Cartoon Network, Finji, Giant Squid, Klei Entertainment, Konami, LEGO, Mistwalker Corporation, SEGA, Snowman, ustwo games and dozens more.
Games will be across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. And, users will be able to pick up where they left off on a different device.
Apple has not yet revealed any details on pricing, but says it will be coming to 150 countries in Fall 2019.
Apple introduced Apple Arcade in a star-studded event at the Steve Jobs Theater
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