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Apple News+: The 277 Publications Available With a Subscription (So Far)

Will Apple News+ be worth it? 

by James Dennin
Apple 

Apple News+, the premium subscription product rolled out by Apple as part of its new services blitz, is Apple’s attempt to help consumers avoid succumbing to subscription hell. Faced with declining advertising revenues, publications both online and off- have erected paywalls en-masse. For $9.99 per month, Apple News+ lets you bypass the paywalls on more than 300 publications, the cost of which unbundled would top $8,000, according to the company’s claims.

The vast majority of the available publications are magazines (Texture, a magazine bundling service that Apple acquired last year already offered 200 magazine subscriptions for about the same price). As part of its Apple News+ service, the company has also recruited a handful of newspapers and digital media entities to offer their products as part of the $9.99 fee.

Apple will split the money from the subscriptions with publishers 50/50 based on how many people read a given publication’s articles. Apple’s marketing the service as a deal, even going so far as to flash a big “$8,000” on the screen during its presentation, which then gets booted out of the way by a more attractively priced $9.99, as you can see in the below GIF. This is textbook price-anchoring: By showing you an expensive hypothetical or alternative price before showing the real one, Apple makes the actual price seem cheaper.

Look at that price anchoring -- what a deal! 

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Apple News+ Release Date and Price

Unlike most of the other products Apple unveiled at Monday’s event, Apple News+ is available right away starting at $9.99 in the United States, or $12.99 in Canada, according to Apple’s press release. The service will be available in the United Kingdom and Australia “later this year.”

Apple News+ Available Publications

Apple has recruited most of the big magazine conglomerates into the Apple News+ ecosystem, including Hearst, Conde Nast, and Meredith, which between them account for nearly 80 U.S. titles, according to the company media kits. Apple has also recruited a handful of daily newspapers, including The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Toronto Star; and some digital publications like theSkimm.

You can check out a full list of the publications that were featured in the announcement below, as well as the full library available on Texture, the magazine app Apple acquired last year. Apple didn’t respond to multiple requests for a full publication list, but we were able to add a few more titles to list below using a leak from Federico Viticci at MacStories.

Between Apple’s announcement, Viticci’s count, and the available magazines on Texture, Inverse counted a total of 277 publications. We’ll update the list if Apple alerts us to any that we missed.

Apple News+: Is It Worth the Money?

Apple’s $8,000 figure is a bit misleading, the 300-publication count includes a lot of industry publications with pretty narrow appeal (not to slight the fine work of the people at Wood), children’s titles, and even a few publications in foreign languages, like Châtelaine. And of course, even if you read 24/7, you’d have a hard time getting the full $8,000 worth of articles.

It also doesn’t look like the full Wall Street Journal subscription will be included with Apple News+ According to an internal memo obtained by the Verge, the Journal will only provide a selection of curated general interest news to Apple News+ readers, not necessarily the all of in-depth financial coverage and analysis the paper is known for.

To that end, an Apple News+ subscription likely makes the most sense for people who already subscribe to the new dailies offered (like the Star or the LA Times) or people who read a lot of magazines. The average American spends something like 15 minutes reading magazines per day, according to data on Statista, which is probably between five and ten stories per week, depending on how long they are. At $9.99 per month, that’s something like 30 cents per story for an average consumer. If you read more than a dozen magazine stories a month, the Apple News+ subscription will likely be a bargain.

Apple's magazine bundle will pay off for heavy magazine consumers. 

Apple 

Newspapers Available With Apple News+

  • The Wall Street Journal
  • Los Angeles Times
  • Toronto Star

Digital Subscriptions Available With Apple News

  • theSkimm
  • The Highlight by Vox

New York Magazine publications like The Cut and Grub Street

Extra Crunch from Verizon Media’s TechCrunch

Magazines Available on Texture

  • AARP The Magazine
  • ABC Soaps in Depth
  • Adweek
  • Afar
  • Airbnbmag
  • All About History
  • All About Space
  • All About Beer
  • Allrecipes
  • Allrecipes
  • Allure
  • Alta
  • American History
  • Animal Tales
  • Architectural Digest
  • Ask Magazine
  • The Atlantic
  • Automobile
  • Babybug Magazine
  • Backpacker
  • BBC Countryfile Magazine
  • BBC Gardener’s World Magazine
  • BBC Sky at Night Magazine
  • BBC Wildlife Magazine
  • Better Homes and Gardens
  • Bicycling
  • Bike
  • Bike Radar
  • Billboard
  • Birds & Blooms
  • Bloomberg Businessweek
  • Bloomberg Markets
  • Boating
  • Bon Appétit
  • Boys’ Life
  • Brides
  • Canadian Cycling
  • Canadian Running
  • Car and Driver
  • CBS Soaps in Depth
  • Chatelaine
  • Châtelaine
  • Classic Rock
  • Clean Eating
  • Click Magazine
  • Closer Weekly
  • CNET
  • Cobblestone Magazine
  • Coastal Living
  • Computer Arts
  • Computer Music
  • Condé Nast Traveler
  • Consumer Reports
  • Cooking Light
  • Cosmopolitan
  • Cottage Life
  • Country Gardens
  • Country Living
  • Cowboys & Indians Magazine
  • Cricket Magazine
  • Cruising World
  • Cycle World
  • Deer & Deer Hunting
  • Diabetes Self-Management
  • Diabetic Living
  • Do-It-Yourself
  • Digital Camera World
  • Digital Photographer
  • Domino
  • Dwell
  • EatingWell
  • Ebony
  • EDGE
  • ELLE
  • ELLE Decor
  • Entertainment Weekly
  • Entrepreneur
  • ESPN The Magazine
  • Esquire
  • Essence
  • Faces Magazine
  • FASHION
  • Family Circle
  • Family Handyman
  • Family Tree Magazine
  • The Family Handyman
  • Fast Company
  • Field & Stream
  • First for Women
  • Fit Pregnancy and Baby
  • Flying
  • Food & Wine
  • Food Network Magazine
  • Forbes
  • Fortune
  • FourFourTwo
  • Future Music
  • Forward
  • Garden & Gun
  • Gardens Illustrated
  • Girls’ Life
  • Girls’ World
  • Glamour
  • Gluten-Free Living
  • Golf Digest
  • Golf Magazine
  • Golf Tips
  • Good Housekeeping
  • GQ
  • GQ Style
  • Gripped
  • Guitarist
  • Guitar Player
  • Guitar World
  • Harper’s Bazaar
  • Health
  • Heed Magazine
  • HELLO! Canada
  • HGTV Magazine
  • The Hockey News
  • The Hollywood Reporter
  • Homes & Antiques
  • History
  • Hot Rod
  • House & Home Magazine
  • House Beautiful
  • How it Works
  • iD Magazine
  • In Touch Weekly
  • ImagineFX
  • Inc.
  • InStyle
  • In The Moment
  • In Touch Weekly
  • Interior Design
  • J-14
  • Journal of Alta California
  • L’actualité
  • Ladybug Magazine
  • Life & Style Weekly
  • Linux Format
  • Living the Country Life
  • Luxe
  • MacFormat
  • MacLife
  • Maclean’s
  • Macworld
  • The Magnolia Journal
  • Make:
  • Marie Claire
  • Marlin
  • Martha Stewart Living
  • Maxim
  • Men’s Health
  • Men’s Journal
  • Metal Hammer
  • Midwest Living
  • Money
  • Mother Jones
  • Motor Trend
  • Motorcyclist
  • Mountain Biking UK
  • Muse Magazine
  • N-Photo
  • National Geographic
  • National Geographic Kids
  • National Geographic Little Kids
  • National Geographic Traveler
  • National Review
  • Naturally, Danny Seo
  • New York Magazine
  • The New Yorker
  • Net Magazine
  • The New Republic
  • NewBeauty
  • Newsweek
  • O, The Oprah Magazine
  • OK!
  • OUT
  • Outdoor Life
  • Outdoor Photographer
  • Outside
  • Oxygen
  • Parents
  • Parents Latina
  • PC Gamer
  • PC Magazine
  • PCWorld
  • People
  • People en Español
  • Period Living
  • PhotoPlus
  • The Pioneer Woman
  • PlayStation Magazine
  • Popular Mechanics
  • Popular Science
  • Popular Woodworking
  • Prevention
  • Racer Magazine
  • Rachael Ray Every Day
  • Reader’s Digest
  • Real Homes
  • Real Simple
  • Redbook
  • Reminisce
  • Retro Gamer
  • Ricardo
  • Road & Track
  • Rolling Stone
  • Runner’s World
  • Sailing World
  • Salt Water Sportsman
  • Saveur
  • Scientific American
  • SFX
  • Seventeen
  • Shape
  • Shutterbug
  • Simple & Delicious
  • SKI
  • Sky & Telescope
  • Smithsonian
  • Southern Living
  • Spider Magazine
  • Sport Fishing
  • Sports Illustrated
  • Sports Illustrated Kids
  • STAR
  • Stereophile
  • Successful Farming
  • Sunset
  • Surfer
  • Taste of Home
  • Tennis
  • Texas Monthly
  • The Walrus
  • The Week
  • The Advocate
  • The Hollywood Reporter
  • The Magnolia Journal
  • The Pioneer Woman
  • This Old House
  • Time
  • Today’s Parent
  • Toronto Life
  • Total Film
  • Total Guitar
  • Town & Country
  • Traditional Home
  • Travel + Leisure
  • Triathlon
  • Truck Trend
  • Us Weekly
  • Vanity Fair
  • Variety
  • Veranda
  • Vogue
  • W Magazine
  • Web Designer
  • Weddingbells
  • Who Do You Think You Are?
  • Wine Enthusiast
  • Weight Watchers
  • Wine Enthusiast
  • Wired
  • Woman’s Day
  • Woman’s World
  • Women’s Health
  • Wood
  • Working Mother
  • Xbox 360 Magazine
  • Yachting
  • Yoga Journal
  • ZOOMER
  • 220 Triathlon
  • 3D World
  • 3D Artist

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