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New York Times CEO warns publishers ahead of Apple news launch
Apple Inc is expected to launch an ambitious new entertainment and paid digital news service on Monday, as the iPhone maker pushes back against streaming video leader Netflix Inc. But it likely will not feature the New York Times Co.
Mark Thompson, chief executive of the biggest U.S. newspaper by subscribers, warned that relying on third-party distribution can be dangerous for publishers who risk losing control over their own product.
"We tend to be quite leery about the idea of almost habituating people to find our journalism somewhere else," he told Reuters in an interview on Thursday. "We're also generically worried about our journalism being scrambled in a kind of Magimix (blender) with everyone else's journalism."
Thompson, who took over as New York Times CEO in 2012 and has overseen a massive expansion in its online readership, warned publishers that they may suffer the same fate as television and film makers in the face of Netflix's Hollywood insurgence.
See also: Apple secures deal with WSJ for paid Apple News service, NYT and Washington Post opt out
Apple reaches deal with Vox for upcoming Apple News subscription service, report says
Apple is on a hardware-launching bonanza ahead of its big TV announcement
Apple teams with media literacy programs in the US and Europe
Previously: Apple in Talks to Create "Netflix for News" Subscription Service
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Sunday March 24 2019, @01:57PM (1 child)
This establishes that you are referring to an individual author, not to a corporate author pursuant to "work made for hire" law.
It'd also be nice if we had some technological marvel to cover the cost of performing the investigation that results in said written word. But electronic payments on the order of magnitude of a tenth of a dollar or euro don't appear viable quite yet. You attempt to address that:
I'm interested in how an individual author, as opposed to a corporate author, can efficiently make advertisers interested in placing ads on the author's site.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 24 2019, @11:17PM
There's plenty of low-key web-novel authors, musicians, streamers and comics artists making a living off ads and donations without signing away copyrights. Translators even. Reason you're not aware of them is because the moment they start getting famous they get targeted by pirate sites and are forced to sign with publishers for the legal services. What's even stranger is that as soon as they sign the pirates leave them be... As if they're working with the publishers in some sort of legal protection racket...
But to answer directly, Google lets you place ads on your website and pay you by the page hit and all they ask is your bank account number and a valid ID in a web form.
Anyhow, another common practice you can verify easily is to look up youtube for the sheets of some song and find dozens of musicians performing their arrangements and linking to their web stores. Google isn't getting a cut off the sales. They're even paying the musicians for the subscriptions and video ads... And they don't mind at all. They're not trying to sign you for a record deal. They don't want a huge cut off your live performances. They won't take away your band's name too. And if you publish a book or a dvd, you can take off those videos at a moment's notice.
And journalist can stream there too. Plenty of right and left wing nuts do exactly that while promoting their web sites and self-published books. Some history books authors upload talks and such from conventions. It's basically everything authors always did only efficient and cutting away publishers.