The country's biggest print publishers are introducing a Netflix-style service for magazine tablet editions, offering unlimited titles and issues for a flat monthly fee.
The service, from Next Issue Media -- a joint venture of Conde Nast, Time Inc., Hearst, Meredith and News Corp.--prices unlimited monthly and biweekly titles at $9.99 per month. A premium version that also includes weeklies costs $14.99 per month. Consumers will read the titles on Next Issue Media's new app.
Subscriptions to many monthlies' tablet editions cost $1.99 per month, so consumers could get their money's worth from the basic $9.99 plan if they read five or more tablet editions a month.
