Representatives for Netflix, Hulu and The Post declined to comment. It's even worse for interactive music services, which already face tight business margins thanks to the royalties they must pay to record labels, composers and performers. The picture isn't much brighter for electronic bookstores such as Amazon's Kindle (which, coincidentally enough, competes with Apple's own iBooks). Remember when people in the news business were hoping that Apple was throwing them a lifesaver with the iPad? That device may look more like an anvil after this news. (Web-based applications, meanwhile, remain unaffected by Apple's App Store rules.) The fees for that sort of financial convenience, whether you conduct your transaction through PayPal or the check-cashing place a few blocks from my house, tend to be around 2 percent.Īpple cites only one exemption to this new policy: Subscriptions that come free with the purchase of something else, such as a print subscription to a newspaper.

That 30 percent figure is the same share Apple keeps from sales of applications, where it provides valuable hosting services, copious bandwidth and one-click installation and updates.īut in providing subscription billing, Apple won't do much more than move money from one party to another.

And Apple won't tell developers who their customers are unless they allow that disclosure, a move guaranteed to infuriate publishers used to knowing their readers.Įssentially, Apple proposes to annex a developer's subscription business - then charge that firm 30 percent for the privilege. Further, Apple's news release spells out that an app cannot even include a link to an outside Web store.

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