Google Wednesday set in motion a payment arrangement for publishers of digital substance , one day after Apple bring out a similar system for its App Store .
Google ’s system , called One Pass , countenance publishers establish various alternative for charging for their depicted object , including subscriptions of different lengths , day passes , deduction offers and per - article fees . Transactions are handled by Google Checkout .
One Pass account holdersuse the same logarithm - in data across participate publishers and devices , including personal computer , roving phones and tablets , according to Google .
“ Our end is to provide an receptive and flexible political program that furthers our dedication to support publishers , journalism and accession to quality content , ” pen Lee Shirani , Google Commerce ’s director of stage business product management , in a blog post .
Google has long had a love - hatred relationship with magazine , paper and book publishers , some of which have plain that Google benefits disproportionately from index their content and displaying portions of it with advert in servicing like Google News and Google Books .
The complaints in some fount have ended up as polite right of first publication suit , and Google has always guard itself saying that its practices of grovel , indexing and display portion of content are protected by the fair usance rationale .
On Wednesday , theWall Street Journal report that the OnePass program address for Google to keep a 10 pct commissionon publisher revenue , less than the 30 percentage Apple will file .
Google did n’t forthwith respond to a request for scuttlebutt .
One Pass is now usable to publishers in Canada , France , Germany , Italy , Spain , the U.K. and the U.S. German publishers Axel Springer AG , Focus Online and Stern.de are already participate .
The announcement was made in Germany by Google CEO Eric Schmidt .
