Google News Discontinues Digital Magazine Subscriptions

Still another product has joined the dreaded Google graveyard. The search behemothic this calendar week started sending e-mails to subscribers, announcing plans to shut down its print-replica magazines in Google News. With the policy already in event, users will henceforth be unable to buy new digital magazine bug or renew their subscription via Google News.

"Withal, yous'll continue to have admission to all problems y'all previously subscribed to in the Google News app, in the Following or Favorites tab, depending on your app version", the visitor said. Google also promised to refund users their final subscription payments, even though they will nonetheless be able to access all their subscribed content in the Google News app.

Exercise note that folks still wanting to subscribe to any publication should still be able to exercise so individually from the official websites of the respective publishers, although the selection to subscribe to them collectively via Google News is no longer available. Of course, that only applies to magazines with replica digital subscriptions, which is non something that all publications offer anyways.

As pointed out by Android Police force, the magazine subscription service was originally launched in 2012 as the Play Magazines app that was later renamed to Play NewsStand before being merged into Google News. While the idea was to requite publishers control over how their manufactures were viewed online, it never really gained any traction among users in spite of the best efforts from Google.

While the shutdown was long expected, information technology adds yet another name to the long list of products and services that have joined the Google Graveyard over the years, including Google+, Google Allo, Google Trips, Google Reader and more.

Source: https://beebom.com/google-news-digital-magazines/

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