The New York Times reports that Facebook head of news partnerships Campbell Brown said the company is “in early talks with several news publishers about how we might better support subscription business models on Facebook.” For their part, a group of publishers have organized to obtain collective bargaining rights to negotiate better with Facebook and other social media platforms.
Now, says The Wall Street Journal, Amazon is paying publishers and online influencers to post to its just-launched social network Spark. Described as “a cross between Facebook-owned Instagram and social bookmarking site Pinterest,” Spark allows users to tag products for sale via Amazon and then easily buy them.
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