Google Play Newsstand is the discontinued news aggregator and digital kiosk service by Google. On May 8, 2018, Google announced on Google I/O that Google Play Newsstand is being replaced by Google News. Launched in November 2013 through a merger of Google Play Magazines and Google Currents, the service allows users to subscribe to specific magazines (in certain countries) and news feeds, receive new issues and updates automatically. Content can be read in the Custom Newsstand section of the Google Play website or through mobile apps for Android and iOS. Offline downloads and readouts are supported in the mobile app.
For publishers, Google offers a variety of tools for customizing and optimizing their content, as well as an option to include ads through the use of DoubleClick for Publishers. Publishers can restrict geographic access to their content, and use Google Analytics for combined reader data. Publishers may also offer discounts for Google Play subscriptions if the user is already a customer on another platform, such as print or digital.
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History
Google Play Newsstand launches on Android on November 20, 2013, through the incorporation of Google Play Magazines and Google Currents into one service. The Google Currents app on the iOS platform was redesigned and renamed to Google Play Newsstand on September 23, 2014. Web app for Newsstand was launched on November 16, 2016.
This service has seen two major redesigns since launch in 2013. The first, in October 2014, added an element of the "Material Design" design language to the Android Lollipop release. The second, in November 2016, coincides with the launch of the website, and adds machine learning technology to better personalize content for each individual user, including improved news recommendations, and expand support for interactive, rich media.
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Features
Users can subscribe to digital magazines to receive new problems or access to content on an ongoing basis; but, since Newstand's replacement with News, users have posted hundreds of negative comments about the change - from the failure to access paid magazine subscriptions to logging as if they were forced to eat a topic that is not relevant to them. has experienced countless hundreds of insulting comments posted by users. Subscriptions are updated automatically, with users billed at the beginning of each subscription period. Users are notified of price increases. Google claims that existing print publishing customers may qualify for a free digital subscription.
When a user buys a magazine edition, Google claims that it "will not ask for your name, email address, or mailing address.We may anonymously share your zip/zip code with the magazine publisher." If the user becomes a magazine subscriber, "the publisher will receive your name, address, and email address.Pubs may also receive your reading history in relevant publications. Publishers may use this in accordance with the publisher's privacy policy."
Some magazines offer a trial period.
Users can also subscribe to interesting topical feeds, with services featuring news sources of interest to users.
Google Play Newsstand supports PDF and RePub file formats for magazine content, and RSS feeds for news content.
Platform
On a computer, content can be read in a custom section of Google Play Newsstand on the Google Play website.
On smartphones and tablets, content can be read in the Google Play Newsstand mobile app for Android and iOS operating systems.
Offline downloads and readouts are supported in the mobile app.
Kiosk Producer
Google Play Newsstand Producer (formerly Google Currents Producer) is a production environment for content publishers to include their websites or blogs in Newsstand. This allows publishers to customize the look and feel of their content, and make design decisions that automatically optimize content so they can be delivered simultaneously to smartphones and tablets of all sizes and orientations.
Publishers may include ads in articles using Google DoubleClick for Publishers.
By default, magazines are available to readers around the world. Publishers may restrict access by allowing or blocking certain countries. Publishers can also set the primary language for the edition and choose whether they will allow automatic translation.
Publishers can use Google Analytics to analyze aggregated reader data for their content.
Publishers may offer discounts for subscriptions in Google Play Newsstand for users who have print or digital subscriptions to that content. Google will verify an existing user's subscription before providing a discounted price.
Geographic availability
Basic Kiosk services, with topical feeds, are available worldwide. Pailed Newsstand content is available in over 35 countries. The list of complete countries includes: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, , Oman, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and United States.
Expansion history
The availability of paid content was introduced in Italy in April 2014, in France and Germany in May 2014, in India, the Netherlands, Russia and Spain in September 2014, in Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico and South Korea in December 2014, in Austria , Belgium, Ireland and Turkey in March 2015, and in Malaysia and Thailand in September 2015.
See also
- Apple Kiosk
- Google News & amp; Weather
- Digital edition
- Electronic publishing
- Online magazines
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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