Our company has an existing membership model that we use for our website. Members are able to view a bi-monthy periodical on the web. We are looking at converting this to an iOS Newsstand App. How can we create a newstand app that gives our content to our members for free but doesn't allow other users to get this content?
I feel like a newsstand app would have almost the same functionality as normal apps. So I'm thinking we could show a username/password alertview and force the user to login with a webservice. However, will Apple reject news stand apps that do this?
Any ideas/suggestions on how to provide content to existing web members only through newsstand would be appreciated.
Thanks
In case anyone stumbles upon this question. It looks like you can do anything you want in newsstand apps. I have seen several on the store that let you login using web credentials to unlock content.
So the short answer:
Just add a button for web customers. Use a webservice call to authenticate the user. Add app side logic to determine which issues the customer has access too.