{"id":78505,"date":"2019-02-13T02:41:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T18:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/?p=579116"},"modified":"2019-02-13T02:41:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T18:41:34","slug":"opinion-apples-audiobooks-experience-could-benefit-from-a-subscription-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/13\/opinion-apples-audiobooks-experience-could-benefit-from-a-subscription-overhaul\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Apple\u2019s audiobooks experience could benefit from a subscription overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/02\/Apple-Books-iPhone.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Between iCloud storage and Apple Music to the App Store and iTunes, there&#8217;s certainly no shortage of ways to give Apple your money for digital goods. New subscription services are rumored to debut this year, too, including Apple&#8217;s first original <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/tv\/\">video content service<\/a> and a separate service that integrates <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/01\/25\/images-show-apple-preparing-news-app-in-ios-12-2-for-new-magazine-subscription-service\/\">digital magazines<\/a> in Apple&#8217;s News app based on Apple&#8217;s Texture <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2018\/03\/12\/apple-buying-digital-magazine-service-texture-likely-boosting-news-app-revenue\/\">acquisition<\/a>. There&#8217;s even a <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/01\/28\/apple-reportedly-plans-netflix-for-games-subscription-service\/\">rumored<\/a> App Store game subscription service. The lesson here may be that if there&#8217;s a digital good you can pay Apple for once, there&#8217;s likely an opportunity for a subscription service for that category with recurring payments.<\/p>\n<p>Digital books would qualify, and Apple would hardly be the first to rent ebooks for a monthly fee. My colleague Ben Lovejoy <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2018\/04\/11\/kindle-unlimited-for-ibooks\/\">wrote last year<\/a> that Apple&#8217;s Texture acquisition highlighted the opening for an Apple ebook subscription service modeled after Kindle Unlimited. We&#8217;ve since seen iBooks become Apple Books with a <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2018\/09\/17\/ios-12-features-2\/\">redesigned app user interface<\/a>, but no &#8216;Netflix for books&#8217; yet. Personally, I would love to pay Apple to stream audiobooks \u2014 and the service could have features that audiobooks in Apple Books doesn&#8217;t offer today.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/02\/12\/apple-audiobooks-streaming-subscription\/#more-579116\" class=\"more-link\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/02\/12\/apple-audiobooks-streaming-subscription\/\">Opinion: Apple&#8217;s audiobooks experience could benefit from a subscription overhaul<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/\">9to5Mac<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/02\/Apple-Books-iPhone.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1500\"><\/figure>\n<p>Between iCloud storage and Apple Music to the App Store and iTunes, there&rsquo;s certainly no shortage of ways to give Apple your money for digital goods. New subscription services are rumored to debut this year, too, including Apple&rsquo;s first original <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/tv\/\">video content service<\/a> and a separate service that integrates <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/01\/25\/images-show-apple-preparing-news-app-in-ios-12-2-for-new-magazine-subscription-service\/\">digital magazines<\/a> in Apple&rsquo;s News app based on Apple&rsquo;s Texture <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2018\/03\/12\/apple-buying-digital-magazine-service-texture-likely-boosting-news-app-revenue\/\">acquisition<\/a>. There&rsquo;s even a <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/01\/28\/apple-reportedly-plans-netflix-for-games-subscription-service\/\">rumored<\/a> App Store game subscription service. The lesson here may be that if there&rsquo;s a digital good you can pay Apple for once, there&rsquo;s likely an opportunity for a subscription service for that category with recurring payments.<\/p>\n<p>Digital books would qualify, and Apple would hardly be the first to rent ebooks for a monthly fee. My colleague Ben Lovejoy <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2018\/04\/11\/kindle-unlimited-for-ibooks\/\">wrote last year<\/a> that Apple&rsquo;s Texture acquisition highlighted the opening for an Apple ebook subscription service modeled after Kindle Unlimited. We&rsquo;ve since seen iBooks become Apple Books with a <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2018\/09\/17\/ios-12-features-2\/\">redesigned app user interface<\/a>, but no &lsquo;Netflix for books&rsquo; yet. Personally, I would love to pay Apple to stream audiobooks &mdash; and the service could have features that audiobooks in Apple Books doesn&rsquo;t offer today.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/02\/12\/apple-audiobooks-streaming-subscription\/#more-579116\">more&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/02\/12\/apple-audiobooks-streaming-subscription\/\">Opinion: Apple&rsquo;s audiobooks experience could benefit from a subscription overhaul<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/\">9to5Mac<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/13\/opinion-apples-audiobooks-experience-could-benefit-from-a-subscription-overhaul\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2048,452,2,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,403,412,411,395,405,404],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-kqd","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80787,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78505\/revisions\/80787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}