Quark NOT Moving to Subscription Model
On the QuarkXPress Facebook page, Quark made the announcement below about not following Adobe’s move to subscription-rental model.
The page is at https://www.facebook.com/officialQuarkXPress
Here’s what they said:
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Quark will continue to offer perpetual licenses of QuarkXPress and has no plans to move customers to monthly subscriptions like Adobe CC.
It is important to us that QuarkXPress is accessible to designers of all types, that you get to decide if an upgrade has value to you, and that you receive free updates to QuarkXPress during the life of each version.
We have extended our special upgrade pricing through June 30, 2013, which means users on ANY version of QuarkXPress – 3 through 8 – can upgrade to QuarkXPress 9 for the regular upgrade price.
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Also, Quark posted a page clarifying their position here:
http://content.quark.com/indesign-US.html
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“we have no plans to force QuarkXPress customers down a subscription-only path. We will continue to offer perpetual licenses and you get to decide if an upgrade provides the value to warrant your investment. From the thousands of comments we’ve read, it’s clear that many of you share this view of software licensing.”
Jay Nelson is the editorial director of PlanetQuark.com, and the editor and publisher of Design Tools Monthly. He’s also the author of the QuarkXPress 8 and QuarkXPress 7 training titles at Lynda.com, as well as the training videos Quark includes in the box with QuarkXPress 7 . In addition, Jay writes regularly for Macworld and Photoshop User magazines and speaks at industry events.
Quark is getting a pasting on this Linked In discussion:
http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&discussionID=241867302&gid=4511067&commentID=141615145&trk=view_disc&ut=0iFwl2Z_NXuBM1
Andy… I fail to see where Quark’s getting a pasting… As long as Quark and Indesign reproduce acceptable High End PDF’s for printing then it really does not matter what program is used. Any printer still requiring the actual document, fonts and images is way behind the times and needs to move on.
OK Peter, perhaps not getting a pasting… maybe I’m just a tad sensitive when I read the negative and uninformed comments denigrating QuarkXpress … what did you think of the hammer-nails and jackhammer comparison?!?
Personally not sent files to a printer for a long, long time…
This is why I still love Quark, staying helpful to the individual designer. Thank you!
Andy… actually never read all the comments… to be honest a lot of designers blame their tools for their lack of creativity or when their document fails to produce at output… I started out with Pagemaker… then Quark… and switched to Indesign the minute it was available… the thing I have to say about Indesign is that it seldom crashes… after a decade of use and seeing the darkness at the end of the Adobe tunnel I wondered what Quark were up to… liked what I saw and too advantage of their upgrade offer… I have started using Quark for a few of my latest projects while using Indesign for existing projects. Both programs have their merits and it essentially boils done to what program might be better suited for a particular job.