Stories for Nov. 22, 2002

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NCSoft’s Lineage Enters China: NCSoft, the South Korea-based biggest developer of online games, has partnered with SINA to bring “Lineage” i… Read more »

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eSubscriptions Takes the Literal Route: This site, still in beta, has taken the word “subscription” a bit too literally. It hopes offers a s… Read more »

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iVillage’s Tactics to Profit (Someday): A case study on iVillage’s strategy to develop the woman-focused network as a community. Over the la… Read more »

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NetRatings To Report on Market Share of Non-Browser Based Internet Apps: This kind of expansion of Internet metrics will be important, espec… Read more »

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Will Pre-Paid Internet Cards Be a Precursor to Pre-Paid Site Access Cards?: The story doesn’t say so, but this will be happening in the near… Read more »

Stories for Nov. 21, 2002

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American Greetings on Setting the Stage for Charging Subscribers (via TEoF: A story about why and how American Greeting started charging sub… Read more »

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British publishing company Emap is to start charging FHM and Max Power readers: FHM.com will charge visitors £1 per month for access to its… Read more »

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PubScience Shut down Due to Pressure From Pay Sites: The U.S. Energy Department has shut down PubScience, an electronic service that cross-i… Read more »

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Salon.com Delisted From Nasdaq, to Trade on OTC: If there is any company which needs to go private, it is Salon Media. The company has been… Read more »

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Salon.com’s New Scheme More Than a Day’s Worth: An interesting point raised by Anne Holland on her blog: the free day of Premium Salon that… Read more »

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Sony Music Buys Run tones: Record label Sony Music Entertainment has purchased a small New York wireless entertainment company as part of a… Read more »

Stories for Nov. 20, 2002

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More Details On Salon.com’s Free Day Pass: MediaPost does a story on “Ultramerical”, the ad format being used by Mercedes Benz on Salon.com.… Read more »

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AOL Set To Unveil New Content Strategy: In a presentation to investors, AOL Time Warner hopes to present its new strategy for AOL: new conte… Read more »

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Hybrid Subscription Schemes Will Evolve: An interesting story about the FT.com subscription scheme, where the author says that the FT has st… Read more »

Stories for Nov. 19, 2002

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Collecting What Content Is Worth: Vin Crosbie on the need to meter your content the right way. “Most current microtransaction systems (Click… Read more »

Stories for Nov. 18, 2002

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Streaming Vs. Downloads: This is the music industry’s version of the eternal debate: radio vs. record player; magazines vs. books; tv movie… Read more »

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Credit Cards Start Charging New Fee From Adult Subscription Sites: NYTimes.com does a fascinating story on how credit card companies are now… Read more »

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Byte.com to Charge for Its Online Version (via TeOF): Byte.com, the progeny of one of the oldest personal computing magazine Byte (started i… Read more »

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Spanish Paper El Pais Puts Entire Content Behind Subscription Wall: This is perhaps the first and the biggest general-interest paper in Euro… Read more »

Stories for Nov. 15, 2002

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RealNetworks Books Media Player Revenues With Subscription Sales; Subscriber Acquisition Costs Increase: A small but curious detail in its l… Read more »

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Xbox Live Comes Online: Microsoft has unveiled its “Xbox Live” broadband game service for its Xbox game console. “There is a big difference… Read more »

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Micropayment Service Launched in Finland: Finnish company Net People Oy has launched a micropayment solution called ePOLETTI.
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Roxio Snapping up Napster’s Assets: For about $5 million (3.1 million pounds) in stock and cash. “Roxio refused to comment on its plans for… Read more »

Stories for Nov. 14, 2002

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Pressplay Signs on Fifth Label; Now Competes With Listen.com: Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group’s Pressplay music subscript… Read more »

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NBA.com Expands Subscription Deal with RealNetworks: NBA will offer exclusive content on its NBA.com site, using RealNetworks’ video and aud… Read more »

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EMI Signs Up Nine Online Music Companies: In a significant move for subscription music services, EMI has signed new distribution agreements… Read more »

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Salon Media’s Revenues Jump to $1 Million, Riding Subscription Sales: Salon Media Group’s revenues for its latest quarter jumped to $1 milli… Read more »

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TheStreet.com’s New Unit Part of a Bigger Strategy: WSJ.com analyzes the prospects of TheStreet.com’s new subsidiary Independent Research Gr… Read more »

Stories for Nov. 13, 2002

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Salon.com’s Still Alive on its Seventh Birthday: Nope, this is not an “Onionesque” headline. Salon.com is celebrating its seventh birthay, a… Read more »

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iVillage’s Q3 Results: iVillage’s net loss for Q3 narrowed to $5 million, or 9 cents a share, from a loss of $8 million, or 15 cents, a year… Read more »

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Lycos Europe is Feeling the Slump: European internet portal Lycos has announced a sharp drop in revenues for the third quarter fall to £57m… Read more »

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Disney’s Online Sites Turn Profitable: A surprisingly good piece of news for Disney’s online unit, as the company other divisions languish.… Read more »

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