Stories for Oct. 23, 2002

NYT’s Archived Travel Stories Turn From Paid to Free: With the re-launch of NYTimes.com’s travel section, users now have free access to its… Read more »

IGN Launches Online Game Arcade: IGN Entertainment (Nasdaq:IGNX), formerly Snowball.com, has launched “IGN Play”, an online game arcade whic… Read more »

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Revenues From Wireless Content: An analysis of whether wireless content will be the biggest revenue generator in the future. The economics o… Read more »

Variety.com Aligns Print and Online Subscription Prices: The subscription rate for Variety.com, previously priced almost 80 percent less tha… Read more »

Je Suis Content: Vin Crosbie’s take on the paid content industry: ‘Content’ has two distinct definitions: subject matter and satisfied. Why… Read more »

British Cook Launches Subscription Cookery Site: Delia Smith’s website Delia Online is charging for content for the first time with a Christ… Read more »

Yahoo’s Potential on Tapping its Community: eMarketer analyzes Yahoo’s paid subscription services and how its partnership with SBC for broad… Read more »

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Sex Sells — But It’s No Longer Easy: Online porn sites are also feeling the heat in the downturn: Revenues are down, paying customers are f… Read more »

Stories for Oct. 22, 2002

Match.com Delivers a Double Whammy: Match.com has started charging people to reply to potential suitors who send them an e-mail. Before the… Read more »

The National Hockey League on Monday introduced a subscription service for digital-video game highlights, in partnership with Microsoft. Thi… Read more »

Is Semel the Right Guy for Yahoo?: Business 2.0 posits the question. “Yahoo is uniquely positioned to be the entertainment industry’s prime… Read more »

AOL TV?: AOL’s taking its cues from TV: “AOL’s facelift is being engineered by a new leadership team that came out of television and radio.… Read more »

Stories for Oct. 21, 2002

For Big Game Maker, Online Play Is a Big Gamble: A profile of Electronic Arts, the biggest video-game maker in the business–potentially wea… Read more »

The Most Confusing (or Confused?) Study of the Year Award: “The Online Publishers Association (OPA) announced today the results of an audien… Read more »

Media Unspun Launches Paid Weblog: Media Unspun, the new avatar of Industry Standard-owned Media Grok, has launched a new subscribers-only w… Read more »

Merrill Brown’s Speech at Online News Association Conference: Merrill Brown speaks on the state of online news, the industry’s coverage of t… Read more »

Readers Probably Won’t Pay: And yes, the sun goes round the moon…
“[T]he papers he studied found just a 1.4 to 1.8 percent return on inves… Read more »

Stories for Oct. 19, 2002

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Will “Free News” Become Extinct?: A story about European newspapers/online publishers charging for content. Usual suspects such as FT.com an… Read more »

What’s the Pyrrhic Price of Paid Content?: That’s the somewhat caustic title of the discussion going on the Online-News List for the last co… Read more »

Stories for Oct. 18, 2002

CNET’s Q3 Results: CNET Networks had a third-quarter loss narrower than that of the same period last year. CNET’s loss was $307.2 million or… Read more »

SCMP.com, the Internet edition of South China Morning Post, and FT.com, Financial Times’ online operation, have signed an agreement to cross… Read more »

How to Sell E-mail Newsletter Subscriptions: An excellent wrap-up on how to sell subscriptions for e-mail newsletters (part of the “Email Ne… Read more »

Online Movie Service Intertainer to Shut Site: Intertainer, an online video-on-demand site, will shut down and lay off most of its remaining… Read more »

Poynter examines the economics of electronic/PDF editions of newspapers and magazines. “They might be most useful for small papers with a co… Read more »

TheStreet.com’s Subs. Revenues for Q3: TheStreet.com’s third-quarter losses narrowed as the company conserved its cash and cut costs, but re… Read more »

Salon Raises $200,000: Salon Media Group has raised $200,000 in a loan from Adobe Systems founder and company director Dr. John Warnock. The… Read more »

Services: A risky bet on MSN: MSN’s plans for charging for premium web services from its users. “By offering these new Web services almost e… Read more »

FT.com To Break Even in Q4; Plans Asian Edition(via IWantMedia.com): FT.com will break even by the end of the year and an Asian edition for… Read more »

Stories for Oct. 17, 2002

New ISP on the Block: iVillage: As per earlier plans, iVillage is launching a new dial-up Internet access service called iVillageAccess. “Th… Read more »

RealNetworks goes mobile with NEC: RealNetworks has shipped a mobile version of its multimedia playback software in NEC’s MobilePro P300 han… Read more »

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