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"&amp;lt;vc&amp;gt;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;Eight of France's most powerful newspapers and magazines have teamed up in hopes of gaining leverage in negotiations with Apple over the iPad maker's 30 percent cut of App Store sales.&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt;\r\n\r\nThe group of French publications are said to have &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/21/us-france-press-idUSTRE78K2VL20110921\"&amp;gt;joined together&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; and begun negotiating with Apple as a collective, according to &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;Reuters&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt;. The participating parties include newspaper &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;Le Figaro&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt;, sports daily &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;L'Equipe&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt;, business daily &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;Les Echos&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; and news weekly &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;le Nouvel Observateur&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt;.\r\n\r\nThe participating parties reportedly plan to keep their publications from Apple's Newsstand application, which will &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/06/06/apple_unveils_ios_5_with_notification_center_1500_added_apis_200_new_user_features.html\"&amp;gt;be a part&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; of the forthcoming iOS 5 software update. Newsstand will sell newspapers and magazines much like Apple sells e-books through its iBookstore for the iPad and iPhone.\r\n\r\nThough the French publications are usually \"fierce competitors,\" they have put aside their differences and come together to take on Apple, a company that the head of new media of &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;Le Figaro&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; said is \"infinitely powerful.\"\r\n\r\nDisputes between Apple and publishers over content on the iPad have persisted since the touchscreen tablet first went on sale in 2010. Most significantly, a subscription disagreement led international business paper the &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;Financial Times&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; to &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/08/31/apple_pulls_financial_times_iphone_ipad_app_over_subscription_disagreement.html\"&amp;gt;pull its application&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; from the iPhone and iPad App Store.\r\n\r\n&amp;lt;div align=\"center\"&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img src=\"http://photos.appleinsider.com/ios5-110606-4.jpg\" alt=\"iCloud\" border=\"0\" height=\"397\" width=\"800\"&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;\r\n\r\nRather than comply with Apple's rules for the App Store, the &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;Financial Times&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; opted to create an HTML5-optimized version of its website. That allows readers to continue to view the publication in the iPad's Safari Web browser without the need for a native application.\r\n\r\nApple oversees all content that is available for download on the App Store, and also takes a 30 percent cut of all transactions that take place. That policy applies to paid applications, as well as &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/07/25/wsj_amazon_google_kobo_ios_apps_affected_by_apples_direct_sales_rules.html\"&amp;gt;in-app purchases&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; and recurring subscriptions."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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