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Dana E. Neuts

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!

Dana E. Neuts

Subscription Insider Rebranded & Relaunched

Business Services, Business Strategy, Industry Announcements, Mergers and Acquisitions, News /

Effective today, we are relaunching Subscription SITE Insider as Subscription Insider.  As part of this change, our news site, Subscription Content, is now hosted at news.www.subscriptioninsider.com.  The announcement is more than just taking the “site” out of our URL, we have rebuilt the site from top to bottom with lots more to offer subscription businesses. Here is our news announcement. To celebrate our relaunch, we would like to offer you a premium membership for 25% off.  (Now through…

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Subscription News Round-Up

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It was another interesting week in the subscription industry. As always, we bring you some of the latest headlines you may have missed. This week – streaming music overtakes CD sales, Netflix experience subscriber growth, and AmEx experiments with payments via wearables. Digital Music Revenue Overtakes CD Sales for the First Time Globally The Verge Simon & Schuster Puts Ebooks on Playster’s Subscription Platform Digital Book World HydrantID Launches Subscription-Based Digital Security Certificates Subscription Insider The Subscription E-commerce Opportunity Econsultancy Netflix Shares Soar on…

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Apple Slashes Its Revenue Share to Woo New Partners to Apple TV

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To attract big name partners like Netflix, Hulu Plus and MLB.TV to sign deals with Apple TV, Apple has slashed its revenue share to 15%, reports Apple Insider. Apple’s normal revenue share for digital products is 30%, so this marks a significant change for the mega mogul. The revenue share would come from subscription dollars paid by customers through Apple TV and billed through iTunes. Earlier this month, Apple TV launched a partnership with HBO Now…

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Alabama Wants its Share of the Netflix Pie

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The Alabama Revenue Department wants its piece of the Netflix pie, reported TimesDaily.com Sunday. Once upon a time, when Blockbuster was still a thing, customers paid a rental tax with each movie they borrowed. As movie rentals die out and are replaced with streaming video services like Netflix, Alabama stands to lose some hefty revenue – an estimated $5 to $10 million. To close this revenue hole, the revenue department is proposing a 4% state tax…

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Subscription News Round-Up

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It’s been a busy week here at Subscription Insider, with the launch of our new premium and news sites and our rebranding. We’re very excited about the changes, and will share more information about them soon, so stay tuned. In the meantime, here are other subscription industry highlights for this week: The Key Drivers of Customer Loyalty Business Lockerroom The Best Ways for Publishers to Build Credibility Through Transparency American Press Institute YouTube’s Paid Subscription Offering Takes Shape – and…

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Winnipeg Free Press: Pay-As-You-Go News

Business Strategy, News, Paywall /

Last week the Winnipeg Free Press announced it is implementing a “pay as you go” paywall model. Think “iTunes for news,” where readers make a small payment, called a micropayment, for each article they read. In this particular model, Free Press readers, or Freeps, will pay $0.21* per article. As an alternative, readers can purchase a full digital subscription for $13.47* per month, after a 30-day free trial. Those who already subscribe to the print or…

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Subscription Service Oyster Adds E-Book Sales to its Offerings

Business Media and Publishing, Business Strategy, Industry Announcements, News /

Oyster, sometimes referred to as the Netflix for e-books, is now selling e-books, giving subscribers and non-subscribers the opportunity to purchase millions of e-books, according to The Verge. Prior to this addition, Oyster offered unlimited access to more than 1 million titles to subscribers for $9.99/month. In other words, readers can rent the books, similar to how a Netflix subscription works. Now, however, book lovers can also buy e-books directly from the Oyster app to read…

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Microsoft Offers Deeply Discounted Office Bundle – Deal or No Deal?

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Microsoft has just announced that it is reducing the cost of its Work & Play Bundle to $149, says VentureBeat. For just $149, subscribers in the U.S. can get access to Office 365 Home, Xbox Live Gold, Xbox Music Pass, and Skype Unlimited World + WiFi. Priced separately, the four products would cost $443.65, giving subscribers a deep discount of 66%. Here’s what it includes, according to the Microsoft site: Office 365 Home, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint,…

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Subscription News Round-Up

Business Strategy, Entertainment and Streaming, Magazines, News, Paywall /

With plane crashes, presidential candidates and religious freedom in the news, it is easy for subscription news to get lost in the shuffle. We’ve got you covered though. Here are some highlights from the subscription industry this week: New York Times Plans to Make NYT Now Mobile App Free Capital How Paywalls Prevent News Scoops Media Post How “Smartphone-Dependent” Are Americans? PYMTS.com 8 Niche Publishing Thought Leaders You Should Follow (featuring our CEO & Publisher Kathy Greenler Sexton!) Mequoda CuriosityStream Launches: Unlimited Documents for…

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CuriosityStream Launches: Unlimited Documentaries for $3-10/Month

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Hailed as the Netflix for nonfiction by Mashable, CuriosityStream launched in March, offering nearly 1,000 documentaries for less than $6 a month. Created by John Hendricks, the founder of the Discovery Channel, the online subscription video site offers an ad-free service with standard resolution for $2.99/month, a high def version for $5.99/month, an ultra high def option (4K), where available, for $9.99/month. The subscription service is available for desktop, TV, tablet and smartphone viewing, and the…

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