After months of speculation , Time Inc. has finally inked a cope with Apple that may allow print magazine subscribers to access the corporate’s iPad editions without charge. Beginning this week, subscribers to print versions of Sports Illustrated, Fortune, and Time would be ready to download the iPad counterparts for free of charge, directly in the magazines’ apps. Today’s deal comes only some months after the corporate struck a similar arrangement with HP , but iPad users, unlike TouchPad readers, still won’t have the ability to purchase exclusively digital subscriptions to Time Inc.’s stable of publications. It’s no secret that point Inc. desires to incorporate digital subscriptions to its iPad model, but negotiations have hit some roadblocks, largely due to disputes over how Apple shares subscriber data. Publishers say they want that data to use the TV Everywhere model to magazines, but Apple thinks subscriber information should only be shared on an opt-in basis. We don’t really expect Apple to budge any time soon, but execs at Time Inc. seem optimistic, telling the Wall Street Journal that today’s deal proves that both parties are “moving closer” at the issue — apparently not close enough, however, for Apple to comment.
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