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It’s never been easier to sign up for subscriptions – and they’ve never been harder to manage.
The Federal Trade Commission is suing Amazon for its use of manipulative interface design tactics – or “dark patterns” – to complicate users’ attempts to cancel Prime subscriptions.
Customers fear the subscription model is meant to gouge them, but that’s not really the end game for sellers.
For the news publisher, the key word is ‘subscribers’.
New Zealand’s largest general newspaper has launched a paywall this week, with likely repercussions for other media organisations and readers.
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Associate Professor, Co-Director of the Research Centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy, Auckland University of Technology
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