While most publications have seen a decline in subscription rates over the last decade, The Economist has been able to double its circulation to 1.5 million in that time, mainly the result of some savvy marketing. Of that1.5 million, recent reports indicate that 100,000 are digital-only subscriptions, garnering approximately $12.7 million in online dollars for… [Read more…]
April 1, 2012
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is denying a frustrated publisher’s claim that it has indefinitely stopped adding any more newspapers and magazines to its Kindle store around the world. “Completely out of the blue, Amazon have told us they have decided to stop publishing any new newspapers on the Kindle indefinitely, worldwide,” says Gannett’s Herald & Times… [Read more…]
January 13, 2012
No old-world icon is safe. Just in recent weeks, both Kodak and Sears have percolated back into the news, offering headline writers a dilemma borrowed from the classic Saturday Night Live Weekend Update line, “Generalíssimo Francisco Franco is still dead.” How long have these companies been dying? Yes, it was a surprise sometime a long… [Read more…]
December 28, 2011
Here’s how newspapers sell what they do to would-be readers. You can get the whole paper, now sometimes including digital access. We’ll sell you Sunday only, or the weekend, or 7-day, but you have to take our whole paper. That’s what we sell; that’s our one-size-fits-all product. It fit your grandparents and your parents, so… [Read more…]
December 23, 2011
By Staci D. Kramer @sdkstl Dec 23, 2011 5:40 AM ET Of the seven years I’ve been writing about our namesake topic here at paidContent, 2011 is the hands-down winner when it comes people paying for digital content. The numbers aren’t all in yet and some of it will be hard to quantify given the… [Read more…]
December 16, 2011
If print book costs major on distributing boxes of dead trees, what price the e-book fulfilment sector? Cork, Ireland-based wholesale e-book supplier ePub Direct is taking €1.3 ($1.69/£1.09) million in funding to grow its business supplying e-books to digital retailers. ePub supplies titles to 116 stores including Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Waterstones… [Read more…]
December 15, 2011
The Huffington Post Media Group y EL PAÍS unirán sus fuerzas para lanzar El Huffington Post, la versión en español de The Huffington Post, la popular web estadounidense de noticias y opinión creada en 2005 por Arianna Huffington y Keneth Lerer. Huffington, presidenta y directora de The Huffington Post Media Group, y Juan Luis Cebrián,… [Read more…]
December 14, 2011
By Justin Ellis Email NBC News keeps its political reporting in lots of different places. There’s Chuck Todd on Twitter, in the evening with Brian Williams and the Nightly News Crew, online at MSNBC’s First Read, or your Sunday morning coffee date with David Gregory on Meet the Press. That diffusion is part of why… [Read more…]
December 13, 2011
According to digital measurement firm eMarketer, the time consumers spend on mobile devices has surpasses that of print media for the first time ever, following research in 2010 that pegged the two neck and neck at 50 percent each. Time spent on mobile devices is now an average of 65 minutes a day, compared to… [Read more…]
December 12, 2011
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December 12, 2011
Registration Newsday > Services > Registration Already a Newsday subscriber or an Optimum Online customer? Register now or sign in Digital Subscription Package: $4.99/month introductory offer includes 1-month free trial Breaking news 24/7 Live traffic cams Weather reports Sports scores Save & send article features Personalized content Video & photo galleries Digital Subscription Package includes:… [Read more…]
December 12, 2011
ROY Greenslade last week reported: ‘‘Two Glasgow-based newspapers, The Herald and the Sunday Herald, are to charge readers for access to their websites. Users will be able to read 10 articles for free over each four-week period. If they wish to read more, they will have to pay. Think of it as low paywall! The… [Read more…]
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