Adobe Reduces InCopy CC Subscription Fee
Last week, Adobe quietly came to their senses and adjusted the InCopy CC subscription fee to $4.99/month (annual plan paid monthly), down from $19.95 month, where most of the other single Adobe app subscriptions price out at.
This move smooths the way for publishers considering an InDesign/InCopy workflow, and gives existing customers a break in their budgets (once they renew their monthly or yearly license). Typically, in a publication production team, editors outnumber designers by a far margin. Spending $49.95/month each for one or two designers to use InDesign CC and the other Creative Cloud apps is a bit of an “ouch.” But add to that $19.95/seat every month multiplied by five or ten editors so they could use InCopy was a real, bottom-line obstacle.
How to Get the Reduced InCopy CC Subscription Fee
To see the new pricing (and subscribe), go to the Creative Cloud Membership and Pricing Plans page on Adobe’s web site. At first, it looks like InCopy is still $19.99/mo.:
But as soon as you choose it from the menu, the price change appears:
Woo-hoo! In case you’re wondering, that works out to $59.88 a year, a very reasonable price for a program that used to cost $259.00/seat for a perpetual license. It also brings it more in line with Adobe’s special “Photography” package, which is $9.99/mo for Photoshop and Lightroom. If you want InCopy CC just for a single month or three (perhaps while you’re testing it out), it’s $7.49/month, also reasonable.
I know many IT and purchasing departments who aren’t even aware that InCopy is available as a single subscription (Adobe doesn’t push this option very hard), and instead they’re having the company foot the bill for a full CC subscription for each editor. Yikes! If you suspect your company may be doing the same, please print out this post and tape it to their computer monitor. Again, that URL with the pricing info is https://creative.adobe.com/plans.
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Adobe kept that quiet!! Unfortunately, I’ve just renewed my subscription but I’ll definitely keep a note for next renewal date, so I can cut my costs. Any chance Adobe will cut the subscription for Acrobat and InDesign as well? I think that’s wishful thinking on my part! :)
Thanks for the tip, Anne-Marie.
Anita, you might want to call Adobe customer support and see if it’s willing to adjust your subscription now, particularly given that this sudden change in policy was made by them. In my experience, Adobe bends over backwards to give users a fair deal. Under their old sales model, they happlily provided a special code, so those who’d bought the Windows version could switch to the Mac version of an app for free. Not every company does that.
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Like Anita, one of my fondest hopes is that Adobe creates a $10 writer’s plan much like their photography plan.Authors with a sense of style will be delighted with what InDesign offers. They’ll be able to layout their print, fixed/reflowable epub and (hopefully soon) Kindle versions of their book in a single document, make it look good, and then publish it without all the miseries and uncertainities of a Word-to-whatever conversion process. Revisions will be easier too, since there is only one source document with easy export functions. And the added subscribers might result in more income. I’d certain fit with what I tell autors: “Avoid Word. Write in Scrivener. Layout and publish with InDesign.”
If Adobe makes such a move, they might want to overcome ID’s steep, initial learning curve by offering a set of book templates. Designed with extensive use of styles, authors could easily adapt a template to suit their preferences. There might be, for instance, a master paragraph font style. Change it and all the various text paragraphs adopt that new style.
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Anne-Marie, I share your delight in this move and the good sense it shows. Indeed, I would not be surprised if it led more publishers to adopt an InCopy workflow and resulted in more income for Adobe. And hopefully, that also means more consulting fees for you. You might even want to do a book on converting to an IC/ID workflow for businesses and publishers.
I’m delighted to see Adobe is moving toward a series of targeted-user plans. That’s a subscription plan made more sensible. I’m still paying for the full CC, but as a small publisher I am less than happy with paying for rights to more apps that I can even learn to use, much less actually benefit from. The photographer’s plan was an excellent idea. Adding plans for authors, editors and the like would be too.
I completely agree with all your points. In fact, during the past few weeks, I’ve wondered why Adobe hasn’t incorporated templates into InDesign.
If you look at Microsoft Office 2016; (and obviously previous versions), Apple’s apps including Keynote, Pages, etc., and more importantly iBooks Author, they all have templates. Even if they were basic in construction, at least we could customise them to suit the clients’ needs. What a fantastic Editorial/ePub package it could make! Not only could we have Incopy, Acrobat, Typekit and Indesign, but a selection of templates as well. I certainly wouldn’t complain about the subscription fee if I had that!! It would be just a dream package!!!!!!!!!!
They should show this as a separate item like the photography plan. Call it the Editorial Plan or something like that.
Yes! That’d be great. Then they could mention that InCopy single app subscribers get a Typekit subscription too.
That would be absolutely fantastic, as I only need editorial apps! If Adobe could create an Editorial package with InDesign, InCopy, Acrobat and Typekit, (I already have Office 2016), I’d be over the moon and would definitely switch my plan, as I don’t need all the other apps.
It would be wonderful!
If you look at the other single app subscription fees in that same dropdown menu (the one labelled $19.99/mo), you’ll find that Acrobat Pro DC and Adobe Muse are actually $14.99/mo. each. All others (except InCopy) remain $19.99/mo.
These are all the monthly fees if you buy an annual subscription. If you want month-to-month, they’re slightly higher.
I’m curious if anyone who’s locked into the higher single app subscription for InCopy CC tries to get moved to the lower rate, even if they’re on an annual … what is Adobe’s response? I’d hope they’d be Good Guy Adobe and make the price change applicable across the board immediately, perhaps extending yearly subscriptions by a prorated number of months.
Further thought: Why not throw in InCopy with InDesign?
Can someone, please, persuade Adobe to create an Editorial Package with the above mentioned apps?
The Editorial Pack would be a fantastic addition. Often wondered would a graphic design package work – Illy, ID, PS.
I’ve heard this request from day one, Eugene but from a business stand point it makes no sense for Adobe. There would likely be almost no new subscriptions but there would probably be downgrades…and for what?
To save maybe $10-15/month. That would not only reduce revenue but increase overhead in the cost of administration for the additional SKUs.
My concern is not totally about the subscription fee.
If Adobe wanted to charge £30.00 (GBP), which is approx., $43.00 for an Editorial package with the previously mentioned apps, then I would happily pay. Adobe created a Photography package, then why not an Editorial package?
I could see an Editorial Pack that is InCopy and Acrobat, similar to Photoshop and Lightroom. I don’t see how including InDesign would help, since the point is that two different users collaborate; one on ID and one on IC.
Actually, you could right now roll your own Editorial Pack for $20/mo. Just subscribe to the single apps of InCopy and Acrobat for $19.98/mo. total (Acrobat Pro DC is $14.99/mo.), and yes all single apps come with the Portfolio-level subscription to Typekit.
That’s a great idea! However, as far as I am concerned, InDesign is an integral part of an Editorial package. I need this app just as much as InCopy and Acrobat (perhaps more so) for my new business – and it being the only reason for my renewing the complete CC package.
But Anita, you couldn’t let someone else use your copy of InCopy while you used InDesign. They’d need their own subscription.
Ye, I know, Anne-Marie! :) :) InCopy would be a back-up in case it was preferred over InDesign!
I’m attempting to give prospective clients a wide range of software to choose from. So,everything depends on whether or not the client wishes to use InDesign, InCopy; Acrobat or Word. And when it comes to presentations, they will also have a choice of InDesign, Keynote or PowerPoint. Furthermore, I’m hoping to be in a position to offer them QuarkXPress 2016 at a later date.
So,as there are two or, possibly three, scientific manuscripts in the pipeline, at least I will be able to cover most eventualities.
There’s a method to my madness!!!!! :)
thank you so much for sharing all, about this.
So I guess my rant was taken seriously…
That’s nice pricing.
Gotta say though, InCopy for iPad would be great when going on trips, and you need to do some editing from afar.
Think about it Adobe. Authors can do their work and just update stories/articles from wherever.
That’s just a brilliant idea! Come on Adobe, you can do it….!