paidContent: NYTimes.com Paywall: 12 Percent Of Subs Are International

Posted on 22 September, 2011 by Martin Stabe

"[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’s Nook, while the carmaker Lincoln’s sponsorship program that offers free total digital acccess to the NYTimes.com’s most engaged users was 100,000. About 758,000 are home delivery subs that have linked digital accounts."

The Cutline: The New Yorker publishes its first standalone e-book, ‘After 9/11′

Posted on 25 August, 2011 by Martin Stabe

"The New Yorker has ventured into e-books with "After 9/11," a collection of articles on the terrorist attacks and their aftermath that have appeared in the weekly magazine."

Guardian: Introducing Guardian Shorts

Posted on 5 August, 2011 by Martin Stabe

"Guardian Shorts is a new series of ebooks from the Guardian, providing detailed guides to topical news stories, public policy, sports and cultural events. The ebooks will demonstrate the best of Guardian journalism, with timelines, data and comment, curated and packaged for a quick, portable read."

AllThingsD: Fortune Keeps Apple Story Off Web, On iPad and Kindle

Posted on 10 May, 2011 by Martin Stabe

"In the past, Fortune would have published the Apple story online last Thursday, at the same time the magazine was showing up on newsstands and in mailboxes. Instead, the magazine teased the piece with a post from Fortune.com Apple blogger Philip Elmer-DeWitt on Saturday, telling print subscribers they could read the full story on Fortune’s iPad app for free. And that everyone else could either sign up for a $20 subscription–which would give them access to the app–or buy an individual iPad edition for $4.99."

Paidcontent:UK: Times’ Audience Numbers Struggle, Subscriptions Offer Hope

Posted on 2 November, 2010 by Martin Stabe

Robert Andrews: "The big question, to us on the outside, is whether the reduction in advertising-exposed eyeballs associated with a traffic drop of this scale is, or will, being made up by paying customers. But we didn’t even know how much News International was making from digital before the switch; the publisher doesn’t break it out."

MediaBuyerPlanner: ‘New York Times’ Unbundles for Digital Editions

Posted on 9 March, 2010 by Martin Stabe

"The New York Times, which already offers a digital version via Amazon’s Kindle, plans to offer a separate version of its Book Review."

Forbes.com: iPad, Kindle Won’t Be Newspapers’ Savior

Posted on 7 February, 2010 by Martin Stabe

Mark Contreras of EW Scripps and incoming NAA chairman: "We haven't had any contact with Apple, nor have most newspaper publishers I've talked to. But the industry is working on a project that would enable Apple to offer content from multiple newspaper sources. It will probably launch sometime this year. Most of our papers will have iPhone apps for their news sites by the beginning of April.... we had a sports Web site in Knoxville that focused on athletics at the University of Tennessee. Behind the pay wall, we got approximately 2,000 paid subscribers at $5 per month. When we took the pay wall down, the traffic ballooned and so did its revenue. Based on our experience of publishing on the Web for 15 years, pay walls don't make sense."

InfoWorld: Debating journalism’s post-print path

Posted on 16 January, 2010 by Martin Stabe

Google News creator Krishna Bharat: "The [news] industry could learn a lot from Wikipedia".

Independent: British press split in two by Wapping’s great gamble

Posted on 23 November, 2009 by Martin Stabe

Great summary of the state of the paywall debate among UK national newspapers by Ian Burrell. Emily Bell of the Guardian: "This is not about newspaper publishing, this is about news, content and analysis on the internet and as long as you keep making the category error that says newspaper publishers are different you won’t make any progress."

The Bookseller: Kindle prepared for pre-Frankfurt UK launch

Posted on 3 October, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"The Bookseller has heard from authoritative sources that Amazon.com will finally announce the arrival of its e-book device the Kindle in the UK next week."

Press Gazette: Rupert Murdoch: ‘News is more valuable than it has ever been’

Posted on 17 September, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"[Rupert] Murdoch also repeated his skepticism about the Amazon Kindle reader ... The News Corporation chief was more positive about a new Sony mobile reading device, to be released at Christmas, hinting at a possible partnership, saying: 'we'll do everything we can to drive that one'."

Business Insider: Google FastFlip Is Latest Attack On Amazon Kindle

Posted on 15 September, 2009 by Martin Stabe

Dan Frommer: "What's the point of Google's new FastFlip reader? ... But because it loads pages very fast -- and requires minimal effort to navigate -- it could be useful for portable devices. Specifically, tablet-like gadgets with 3G modems that could compete with Amazon's Kindle."

Quill & Quire: Is Kindle the environmentally friendly option?

Posted on 25 August, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"A recent report from the Cleantech Group analyzed the environmental impact of traditional publishing as measured against e-book publishing, and declared the latter to be the clear winner on environmental grounds. Calling the publishing industry “one of the world’s most polluting sectors,” the Cleantech report asserted that a concerted move to e-book publishing could drastically reduce the negative impact the industry has on the environment."

Daily Finance: Murdoch’s ultimatum to Amazon: Give us Kindle subscriber names or else

Posted on 6 August, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"[Rupert Murdoch] suggested that The Wall Street Journal will cease to be available on the Kindle e-reader unless Amazon starts offering a more generous revenue split and more publisher-friendly policies."

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