Even as Apple and Epic Games face-off, major American news publishers have now joined Epic Games in criticising Apple's 30% commission over in-app purchases. In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, Digital Content Next — an association that includes New York Times and Washington Post — asked how member news publishers can “qualify for the arrangement Amazon is receiving for its Amazon Prime Video app in the Apple App Store”. During the US Congressional antitrust hearings last month, where Apple's Cook also testified, Senator Hank Johnson had questioned him about an arrangement Apple afforded to Amazon, where it was allowed to keep 85% of the revenue, with Apple only earning a 15% commission for every Amazon Prime subscription purchased on the Apple App store. Cook's response was that the arrangement is available to “anyone meeting the conditions". The DCN essentially wants to know what these “conditions” are, and is demanding that its members be offered the same agreement. “Nearly all of DCN’s members offer apps in the Apple App Store and, as noted above, many offer subscription-based access to a wide variety of content. The terms of Apple’s unique marketplace greatly impact the ability to continue to invest in high-quality, trusted news and entertainment particularly in competition with other larger firms,” the organisation’s CEO Jason Kint wrote in the letter. “In keeping with your statement to the Committee, I ask that you clearly define the conditions that Amazon satisfied for its arrangement so that DCN’s member companies meeting those…
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Major American news publishers ask Apple how they can get a better revenue-sharing deal like Amazon
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