Friday, April 22, 2011

New news aggregator News.me launched

The news aggregator News.me launched Thursday morning as a subscription iPad app, with support from more than 20 major media outlets.
Built by Betaworks, the app aggregates and filters news from a wide variety of sources, but will pay a licensing fee to official media partners in return for use of their content. Articles from those partners has been reformatted for the “best reading experience” on the iPad according to an FAQ on the company’s website.
Consumer access to the app costs $0.99 a week, or $34.99 a year. Partners will receive a “fixed fee” for each unique page view; the company has not publicly stated what that fee will be.
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http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/media-lab/mobile-media/128743/news-me-prepares-to-launch-ipad-aggregator-with-ap-new-york-times-aol-as-media-partners

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