In this week’s subscription news, Amazon introduces paid subscriptions for Alexa skills, Facebook and Apple can’t agree on terms for subscriptions, and Porsche is the next luxury car maker to launch a subscription program. Also this week, we are reading about Disney’s plans to compete with Netflix, CBS’s renewal of ‘Star Trek: Discovery,’ available exclusively on CBS All Access, and speculation that a Spotify IPO could raise $100 million.
Amazon Introduces Paid Subscriptions for Alexa Skills
TechCrunch
Why The Athletic Wants to Pillage Newspapers
The New York Times
Facebook and Apple Can’t Agree on Terms for Subscription Tool
Recode
CBS Renews ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ for Second Season
Fortune
Porsche is Launching a Luxury Car Subscription Program
How Stuff Works
Google Aims to Share Revenue with News Publishers
Engadget
Spotify Could Be Valued at $20 Billion and Eventually Hit $100 Billion
CNBC
Disney Lets Studios into the Mouse House to Build a Netflix Competitor in Movies
Tubefilter