AP launches new units set to charge for iPad
The unit, called AP Gateway, will focus on softwares and products that will "enable newspapers as well as the news cooperative to display content on such devices as Apple Computer Inc.'s iPad," said Tom Curley, AP's president and CEO, at the annual meeting of the Colorado Press Association.
"AP Gateway will serve as the launching pad for new products and services from AP and other interested news publishers," Curley added. "It will allow the news industry to deliver the news directly to the consumer in a variety of exciting new ways," News and Tech reported.
The news organization also said it will begin charging iPad users for downloading AP content to their devices, but hasn't decided yet if it would charge for the software.
According to Jane Seagrave, AP chief revenue officer, "Consumers were more willing to pay for content on tablet devices than on the web," The Financial Times reported.
AP's paid access announcement just came after The New York Times' in January, and Reuters.com's last week.
0 TrackBacks
Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: AP launches new units set to charge for iPad.
TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.editorsweblog.org/mt/mt-tb.cgi/20711
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfnblog.com%2Fmobile%2F2010%2F02%2Fap_launches_new_units_set_to_charge_for.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="5945" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><img alt="AP logo.jpg" src="http://www.sfnblog.com/AP%20logo.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="77" width="310" /></form><div><form mt:asset-id="5945" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false">
The Associated Press announced
Friday it will launch a new unit to identify and develop new products for mobile
devices and other multimedia platforms, <a href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1004071468">Editor
& Publisher reported.</a><br /><br />The unit, called AP Gateway, will focus on softwares and
products that will "enable newspapers as well as the news cooperative to
display content on such devices as Apple Computer Inc.'s iPad," said Tom
Curley, AP's president and CEO, at the annual meeting of the Colorado Press
Association.
</form></div>&title=AP launches new units set to charge for iPad){kind=link}
Leave a comment