NewspaperDirect Rips Apple, Inks ASUS

Digital-publishing-technology provider NewspaperDirect railed against Apple’s subscription policy for content-based apps via its App Store, and the company also announced that ASUS will use its technology to offer newspaper content across its line of digital platforms.

In a statement on The PressDisplay Blog, NewspaperDirect said:

It is unjustifiable for a hardware-device manufacturer to charge 30 percent on a transaction that costs them less than 5 percent to perform.

It is inexcusable to force publishers to comply with a manufacturer’s tiered subscription levels under that manufacturer’s terms and conditions not just on its own iOS devices, but on whatever platform the publisher supports under their subscription plan (e.g.

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