Friday start the Gopress-platform nine Belgian publishing their newspapers and magazines offer. At a lower rate online can a publication be purchased and read. That can then click different devices to be read.
The nine Belgian publishing houses are in the Flemish Corelio, De Persgroep, Concentra, Ireland and the Walloon Rossel, Mediafin, IPM and l’avenir. The publishers go on Friday, their newspapers and magazines offer on the Gopress-platform. The platform is developed by the company Mediargus, long-time an online media platform offers for educational purposes.
Because the website is written in html5 all devices with a modern browser the site can access. However, the system is now only accessible from the computer. A version for Android in June, iOS is only september, reports The Standard. Nevertheless, it is a kind of test lab of the website to see that Gopress is available on computers, tablets and smartphones.
The krantenwebsite also reports that the initiative of Gopress created by the dissatisfaction of the publishers across the betaalmodel of Apple, that thirty percent means. Gopress hold nevertheless 25 percent, but gives the customer information on to the publishers.
Each issue of a publication must be purchased separately and can then be read in the online browser of the platform. Download is not possible yet. You can pay via sms, credit card or e-banking by means of the Cleeng payment system. It is not known whether there is a subscription service will be offered.
The prices of the newspapers and magazines are slightly cheaper than the standard kioskprijzen. How to pay a reader to 1.30 euro for a quality newspaper that is normally 1.50 euro cost. The website of the platform is not yet available, but via a test page, the platform can already partly be seen. Here you can see how publications can be filtered according to region and theme.
The announcement last week that Belgian publishers a joint betaalmuur wanted to set up, seems to have nothing to do with this initiative. It is not known how long the publishing houses are already using the Gopress-platform.
