Comments on: UK Times’ Paywall Numbers: 105,000 Sales Since Summer, 50k Subs http://paidcontent.org/2010/11/02/419-uk-times-paywall-numbers-105000-customers-since-summer/ The economics of digital content Fri, 24 May 2013 23:44:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Laura http://paidcontent.org/2010/11/02/419-uk-times-paywall-numbers-105000-customers-since-summer/#comment-80838 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:18:06 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2010/11/02/419-uk-times-paywall-numbers-105000-customers-since-summer/#comment-80838 Developing a magazine or press is not a simple thing. The press release shows the work of the company in its initial and present stage.

]]> By: Greg Golebiewski http://paidcontent.org/2010/11/02/419-uk-times-paywall-numbers-105000-customers-since-summer/#comment-80837 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:22:37 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2010/11/02/419-uk-times-paywall-numbers-105000-customers-since-summer/#comment-80837 Yes ToddBenoit, I can assure you Robert Andrews is the last person to promote paid-for digital content access models… His pieces and posts here are fanatically against any such solution.

]]> By: Robert Andrews http://paidcontent.org/2010/11/02/419-uk-times-paywall-numbers-105000-customers-since-summer/#comment-80836 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:24:18 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2010/11/02/419-uk-times-paywall-numbers-105000-customers-since-summer/#comment-80836 ToddBenoit – totally agree re: revenue being the only usable final metric; I’ve been saying that for some time. What I was talking there was traffic.

I’m not “promoting” a press release. I’ve showed you the whole of the press release and left a full separate post for analysis – http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-times-audience-numbers-struggle-subscriptions-offer-hope/

]]> By: ToddBenoit http://paidcontent.org/2010/11/02/419-uk-times-paywall-numbers-105000-customers-since-summer/#comment-80835 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:17:57 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2010/11/02/419-uk-times-paywall-numbers-105000-customers-since-summer/#comment-80835 “News Corp … has finally released the only figures that really matter on which to judge the succes of its new web fees model.”
The only figures that really matter when it comes to paywalls are net revenues before and after the paywall and growth trends. Without those, what you have is spin — of which there is plenty in the press release you are promoting.

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