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between

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, and

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Reading apps were available on

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, Android and Kindle Fire HD.

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brought the service to

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in late 2013. The following year, a French version of the app was launched. In December 2014, Next Issue Media secured $50 million in financing from KKR. Next Issue rebranded itself as Texture and relaunched in September 2015. That same year, Texture paid out $15 million in subscription revenue to publishers. On March 12, 2018,

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announced it had signed an agreement to acquire Texture for an undisclosed sum. In March 2019, Apple announced a new subscription offering within its

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application, Apple News+, which offers a similar service. Texture was shut down on May 28, 2019, in favor of Apple News+. Unlike Texture, Apple News+ is available only on Apple

and

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devices.

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