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Dana Neuts is Subscription Insider's Editorial Director, covering our daily subscription news as well as member features, case studies, premium content, and reports. Dana is also a writer, editor, marketer and communications professional. Her work has appeared in AARP Bulletin, The Seattle Times, Seattle Business, 425 Business, 425 Magazine, South Sound Magazine, Northwest Travel and more. Her specialties include business writing, community news, senior issues, travel and, of course, subscriptions!

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Customers on Government Assistance Can Get Amazon Prime at a Discount

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Rarely a week goes by without Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) in the news with a new product, feature or some sort of announcement. This week is no different with two notable news items. First, Amazon announced that customers participating in government assistance programs can sign up for Amazon Prime at a discounted rate of $5.99 per month, following a 30-day free trial. There is no annual commitment, and Prime members can cancel at any time.

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Ford Launches Month-to-Month Car Subscription Service ‘Canvas’

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Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) is the latest major vehicle manufacturer to launch a car subscription service. Ford calls the month-to-month subscription service Canvas, and it is currently only available in the San Francisco Bay area. The monthly subscription fee is based on the vehicle selected and mileage package, ranging from 500 (for no extra charge) to unlimited monthly miles (add $90 per month) selected. The fee includes the vehicle itself, routine maintenance, bumper-to-bumper warranty, comprehensive insurance, tire wear and tear replacement, registration and roadside assistance.

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This Week’s Subscription News: Netflix, Nintendo and Newsrooms

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In this week’s subscription news, Google defends its Chrome ad blocker which is supposed to lead to better ads, but some find it to be self-serving. Also in Google news, the Wall Street Journal started blocking Google users from reading for free in February. As a result, their articles are ranking lower on Google and their traffic has dropped 44 percent. In other headlines, Netflix is estimated to grow to 128 million subscribers by 2020, Nintendo releases details about Nintendo Switch, set to launch next year, and Twitch Prime goes global, expanding into 200 countries worldwide.

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The New York Times Offers Employee Buyouts to Beef Up Reporting Staff

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Last week, in a memo from executive editor Dean Baquet and managing editor Joseph Kahn, The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) offered buyouts to its newsroom employees to reduce the layers of editing, reports The Times. The idea is to replace the layers with a single group of editors who would be responsible for all aspects of an article, with another editor acting as a final check prior to publication. Currently, two of three editors review each article before it is published.

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Five on Friday: Retention Rates, Productivity Apps & Time Savers

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In this weeks edition of Five on Friday, eMarketer shares why it believes consumers need choices to stop them from using ad blockers, Kissmetrics tells us how to use customer empowerment to improve customer loyalty and retention, Tubefilter shares that “YouTuber” is the most desired career (yikes!), CIO offers 9 crazy-useful PC productivity apps to simplify and organize your many tasks, and Moz explains how small digital publishers can grow their readership and save time to compete with larger publishers.

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Meal Delivery Subscription Service Blue Apron Filed for an IPO

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On June 1, mail delivery subscription service Blue Apron filed an S-1 form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), indicating its intention to take the company public as soon as possible after the request for an IPO has been approved. Goldman Sachs is leading the public offering. Blue Apron, which will use the ticker symbol APRN on the New York Stock Exchange, has not said how much it hopes to raise through the IPO, nor has it priced its shares or how many shares it plans to sell. According to Business Insider, Blue Apron has raised close to $194 million in funding and was last value around $2 billion.

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Kids’ Unlimited Digital Book Subscription Epic Raises $8 Million

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Epic!, a digital book subscription for children, has raised $8 million in Series C funding, led by Reach Capital. This latest funding round brings the total raised to date to $21.4 million in venture capital. Other investors who contributed to the funding round include TransLink Capital, Rakuten Ventures, Menlo Ventures, WI Harper, Brighteye Ventures and Innovation Endeavors. According to the announcement, the company will use the new funding to boost its growth, expand its team and build out its platform for school and home use.

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Trump Launches the Big League Box, a Subscription Box with Trump Merch

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“Donald Trump is selling a subscription box no one asked for.” That’s the headline of Mashable’s May 30 article announcing that President Trump is getting in on the subscription economy with a subscription box of his own. According to Trump’s re-election campaign website, donors who make recurring monthly contributions of $49 or more a month will receive “a handpicked bundle of exclusive and vintage OFFICIAL Donald J. Trump merchandise.” But hurry. There are only a limited number of subscriptions available.

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New WhatsApp Scam Tries to Trick Users into Paying a Subscription Fee

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In January 2016, the WhatsApp instant message app discontinued its annual fee of $1, but a new scam tries to trick users into paying a subscription fee, reports The Independent. Some WhatsApp users have received a message advising their subscription has expired, and they need to verify their account and purchase a lifetime subscription for 0.99 GBP by clicking on a link and providing their payment information. However, WhatsApp, now owned by Facebook, has been free to download and use for the last 17 months.

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This Week’s Subscription News: Software, Sega and Self-Serve Ads

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In this week’s subscription news, BlackBerry settles its arbitration dispute with Qualcomm over patent royalty fees for $940 million, Amazon sets up its next brick-and-mortar in Midtown Manhattan, and The Atlantic shifts its focus to YouTube for the sake of profitability. Also in this week’s subscription headlines, Tableau Software increases its long-term guidance, anticipating 20 percent revenue growth, Sega considers a mobile subscription service, and Facebook inks a deal for original TV programming.

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