The Associated Press (AP) is interested in selling news on the Apple iPad through a subscription service as the device heads for sale. The AP is interested in charging for its content through a subscription fee over advertising that a lot of Web news content relies on, reports The Financial Times.

The company has also created AP Gateway, a new business unit that’s responsible for helping its member papers define their digital strategy as a group as opposed to individually, which many newspaper publishers lack the resources and the expertise to do currently.