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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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Too Many Emails: LinkedIn Settles Class Action Suit for $13 Million

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Did you get an email from LinkedIn last week – something about a class action suit Perkins vs. LinkedIn? It might have seemed like spam, but it is actually a big deal, says Quartz. LinkedIn informed its members on Friday that it settled a class action lawsuit for $13 million to pay members who felt that too many emails had been sent on their behalf from the social media platform. LinkedIn also agreed to pay up…

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Weekly Subscription News Round-up for Oct. 2

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Axel Springer acquires a  majority stake in Business Insider, Comcast launches Watchable, and Millennials are paying for content – wait, what?!! We’ve got those headlines and more for you, featuring Kate Hudson, NBC, Huffington Post, Business Insider, and Oyster. Get those headlines and more on Subscription Insider.

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Amazon Bans Competing TV Streaming Services Apple TV & Chromecast

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While Google and Microsoft were making nice this week, ending their public patent feud, Amazon was working on plans to ban competing TV streaming services Apple TV and Chromecast from its online marketplace, reports Bloomberg Business. The reason: “to avoid customer confusion.” (cough, cough) Amazon has been emailing its sellers to notify them that they must stop selling devices that don’t “interact well” with Prime Video, according to Bloomberg. Current inventory must be removed from Amazon-based…

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5 Subscription Lessons to Learn from the Amazon Prime & WaPo Partnership

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Amazon and The Washington Post, both owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, are partnering to offer Amazon Prime members free digital access to The Washington Post. According to Talking New Media, interested Amazon Prime members will get free digital access to The Washington Post’s website and apps on Kindle, iOS and Android for six months. After that, Prime members can subscribe at a discounted monthly rate of $3.99 per month. A full-price, national digital edition of the…

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Toronto Sun to Remove Comments from Online Articles

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Last week the Toronto Sun became the latest media outlet to opt out of online commenting. In a note to readers from James Wallace, vice president of editorial, the newspaper values feedback from readers, but things have gotten out of hand.         “As a paper, we pride ourselves both on dishing out and taking criticism – especially when the latter comes from our readers. And part of that conversation has taken place on our online comment boards.…

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Axel Springer Buys Majority Stake in Business Insider for $343 Million

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It’s official. After weeks of rumors, Axel Springer has sealed the deal, announcing that it is purchasing 88% of Business Insider, a digital business news site based in New York City, for $343 million. According to the official announcement, the goal of the acquisition is threefold: 1) broaden Axel Springer’s global reach, 2) diversify the company’s English-language offerings, and 3) enhance its commitment to innovative digital journalism. Prior to the deal, Axel Springer owned 9% of the…

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Netflix Now Allowing iOS In-App Subscriptions

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Netflix is the latest streaming service to allow in-app purchases for iPhones and iPads, reports The Verge. Netflix made the announcement on Twitter with a clip featuring Orange is the New Black characters Crazy and Taystee who discover an iPhone inside Litchfield Prison. While Netflix has had iOS apps since 2010, it did not previously allow in-app purchases. The Verge speculates this was due to the dreaded “Apple tax” of 30%. Some services make up for Apple’s…

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Weekly Subscription News Round-up for Sept. 25

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Ebook start-up Oyster crumbles under the pressure, new services bring consumers new tools via subscription, and stalwart Esquire finds a new way to make money on old content. Those headlines and more are right here: Google Eats Oyster as Online Book Startups Succumb to Giants Mashable 3D Print Comes Right to Your Door with New Subscription Service 3DPrint.com MathCrunch’s New Monthly Subscription Helps You Learn Math on the Go VentureBeat Esquire Magazine Publishes 82 Years of Archives Online: 6 Lessons for Subscription…

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NBC Jumps on the OTT TV Bandwagon with Roku App

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Cord cutters now have another reason to say “no” to cable forever – NBC. NBC is the latest player to jump on the over-the-top (OTT) television bandwagon, reports Digital Trends. Earlier this week NBC was added to the Roku Channel store. NBC’s free app will offer instant access to the latest episodes and highlights from NBC favorites, including The Voice, Blacklist, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and more. Some of those shows will require a…

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Oyster Books to Shutter Subscription Service as Founders Head to Google

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Earlier this week Oyster Books announced on its blog that it is shutting down the two-year-old ebook subscription service. Of course, as you’d expect from a company that promotes reading and literature, they sugarcoated the announcement, saying they “will be taking steps to sunset the existing Oyster service over the next several months.” The so-called sunset of Oyster Books closely follows the shutdown of Entitle, another ebook subscription service that launched in 2013. According to the…

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