Google One Pass

Leveling up with App Store subscription plan, Google announces Google One Pass but is less than the 30 percent charged by Apple for subscriptions to applications sold through the App Store for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

Google unveils payment platform for online content as it launched an online payment platform for digital newspapers and magazines. This is as a subscription service unveiled by Apple a day earlier came under fire for the size of the bite it takes from publishers.

This Online Payment System competes the price of Apple,Google will take a 10-percent share of revenue from transactions handled by “Google One Pass,” less than the 30 percent charged by Apple for subscriptions to applications sold through the App Store for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.Publishers who opt to use Google One Pass to charge readers for digital content can set their own prices and terms.

Readers who purchase from a One Pass publisher can access their content on tablets, smartphones and websites using a single sign-on with an email and password.More inportantly,the service helps publishers authenticate existing subscribers so that readers don’t have to re-subscribe in order to access their content on new devices.

Google said publishers can offer readers a variety of options including full subscriptions or even single articles for purchase.”With Google One Pass, publishers can customize how and when they charge for content while experimenting with different models to see what works best for them,” Google said.
CEO Eric Schmidt announced Google One Pass during his speech at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. Such an online payment system had been rumored for months, but Google obviously timed its announcement to promote the fact that its terms are more favorable–and flexible–to publishers than Apple’s.

 

Such an online payment system had been rumored for months, but Google obviously timed its announcement to promote the fact that its terms are more favorable–and flexible–to publishers than Apple’s.

 

Google One Pass is currently available from publishers in Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United States.

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