paidContent: NYTimes.com Paywall: 12 Percent Of Subs Are International
Thursday, 22 September 2011, 11:23
"[CEO Janet Robinson] did offer some additional color on the number paywall subs. In particular, about 88 percent are domestic and 12 percent are international. There are also 57,000 subs collectively on Amazon’s Kindle or and Barnes & Noble…
The Drum: Newsquest (Herald & Evening Times) to introduce online subscription model
Thursday, 25 August 2011, 11:41
"Newsquest (Herald & Times) will take a ‘quality over quantity’ approach as it moves away from targeting unique users and build on a returning online audience. … a subscription platform is expected to be introduced across online content …
paidContent:UK: The Times Gains New Subscribers With Groupon Discount
Tuesday, 26 April 2011, 11:27
Robert Andrews: "Most importantly, the subscriptions are set to continue at the standard rate after the July 29 end of the discounted period, meaning The Times will hold on to some of those new subscribers."
The Independent: The Pink ‘Un powers on
Monday, 4 April 2011, 17:47
"It's the 10th anniversary of the Financial Times introducing subscription charges for access to its digital content.""
paidContent:UK: UK Times Plans Upgrade To Its ‘Berlin Wall’
Friday, 25 March 2011, 22:48
"The Times is planning some changes to its paid digital model that could lead to more nuanced additions to its current hard in-or-out system. … Right now, this is at the “gossip” stage. And The Times’ digital editorial director Tom Whitwel…
yelvington.com: It’s not a paywall (part 2)
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 11:43
Steve Yelvington on the New York Times' metered access model: "A paywall, by contrast, is a dumb, blunt instrument that separates content from the general public, prevents sampling, inhibits linkage and sharing, and usually is the product of …
TechCrunch: Dumb, Da, Dumb, Dumb . . . The NYT’s Digital Pricing Plan Discriminates By Device
Friday, 18 March 2011, 01:07
Erick Schonfeld: "there is one part of the pricing plan that is wrong-headed. It discriminates by device. Depending on what device you read the paper on, you will be charged differently for an all-digital subscription."
Nieman Journalism Lab: “The price you pay for asking people to pay the price”: Gerry Marzorati on class and the NYT paywall
Friday, 18 March 2011, 00:13
Gerry Marzorati of The New York Times: “We’re going to be building a kind of mini website for India … [India] is an enormous newspaper-reading culture that is only now beginning to transition online, and we want to be there and we want to have a …
Nieman Journalism Lab: The Newsonomics of The New York Times’ pay fence
Friday, 18 March 2011, 00:10
Ken Doctor: "Though the FT and the Wall Street Journal have long operated successful pay models, the Times’ leap is a big one: The Times isn’t mainly a business newspaper. If it can succeed charging readers for “general news,” that’s a m…
Scripting News: Comments on NYT paywall announcement
Friday, 18 March 2011, 00:03
Dave Winer: "they did something smart in not charging readers who get to a [New York] Times story through a link from a blog post or tweet. But — since I am a frequent linker, I wonder why I should pay to read their site, when I'm delivering…
Online Journalism Blog: New York Times paywall: sense prevails over ideology (almost)
Friday, 18 March 2011, 00:02
Paul Bradshaw: "In the past we accounted for those ‘freeloaders’ and ‘parasites’ – as we call them online – by adjusting our readership figures to reflect that every copy bought was read by 4 people. We didn’t lock down the newspaper…
New York TImes: Business News You Didn’t Read Here
Monday, 7 March 2011, 12:49
Public editor Arthur Brisbane wonders why the New York Times isn't covering its own online subscription plans: "the introduction of the pay model is major news for The Times, for the rest of the newspaper industry, and for Times customers and…
New York Times: Financial Times Digs Gold Out of Data
Monday, 7 March 2011, 09:18
"John Ridding, the chief executive of The FT … said improvements in collecting and mining customer data were a big reason digital sales accounted for 24 percent of The FT’s revenue last year, a big jump from 19 percent a year earlier and a con…
New York Times: Will James Murdoch Ride a Sky Broadcasting Deal to the Top?
Thursday, 24 February 2011, 11:20
"[Those] who know James Murdoch often note that he does not relish the newspaper culture the way his father does. He seems to take no delight in the company of reporters and in the sort of gossip that permeates the newspaper world and that his fat…
