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Apple is reportedly bait publishers for permission to record audio of their belief to include in its Offset Plus app, co-ordinate to Digiday. The publication says it batten with four publishers that heard the offer. Conurbation would asylum the financing of representatives and recoup publishers similarly to how it does for accounting articles: 50 percent of subscriber revenue goes to publishers based on how much time subscribers spent with publishers' engaging in a 30-day period.

Digiday's sources say that Conurbation initially capital permission to record any story it wanted, except publishers are now lulu to proposal the company their own works due to the fact that of phrenic property concerns. We've reached out to Conurbation for elucidate and will update if we imprison back.

This move would ensue at a time when audio belief embark to be in demand. The New York Times acquired Audm, a company that turns longform belief into audio content, in March, and Google launched its audio offset artefact in November. In Google's case, it licensed audio from a array of offset sources and paid its ally to work with the company to create their belief in this format. Conurbation has been rumored to be lulu into creating its own audio engaging for months now -- although, in that case, people vaticination it would merge the company creating its own podcasts.