'Pain-Free Paywall' Company Signs First Four Publishers
photo: Tinypass
TinyPass, a startup that aims to streamline the process of charging for content online by using existing platforms like Google (NSDQ: GOOG)… Read more »
New Site Will Offer Groupon-Style Deals On E-Books
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Andrew Rhomberg thinks discovering new books online isn’t much fun. It’s great if you already know what you’re looking for, but if you’re ho… Read more »
Publishers' Social Site aNobii Relaunches To Put The 'Book' In 'Facebook'
photo: Robert Andrews
Book-readers’ social commerce site aNobii has got the relaunch for which three book publishers invested in it back in March. Read more »
Stop Freaking Out About Amazon's Price Check App
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This Saturday, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is running a promotion that is making a lot of people very mad: Use the company’s Price Check mobile app… Read more »
Chicago Sun-Times Papers Add Metered Paywalls — But Not For Roger Ebert
Chicago’s second-largest daily newspaper, the Sun-Times, and its 39 affiliated suburban newspapers will all start charging for online conten… Read more »
Updated: Galaxy Nexus 'Pure Google' Except For Part Verizon Doesn't Like
For years, Google’s pitch for the Nexus class of Android phones has been that they offer the “pure Google” experience, a version of its soft… Read more »
Lonely Planet's Mobile Travel Startup Launches, With Content From Rivals
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Lonely Planet’s new San Francisco-based mobile startup has gone live with its flagship mobile travel guide app Wenzani, which paidContent fi… Read more »
Updated: Report: Facebook Buys Location Sharing App Gowalla?
photo: Robert Scoble
More mobile movements from Facebook today: it has bought the check-in social media service Gowalla, according to a report in CNN. Read more »
Travel Site Fathom Launches Shop, Plans Curated Hotel Booking
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Fathom, the travel site launched by two former Daily Candy editors earlier this year, is expanding its commerce side with a shop of travel-t… Read more »
Slideshow: The Future Of Movies According To Blinkbox And Tesco
Tesco will start retailing its own line of internet-enabled TV in stores under its Technika brand in the new year – amongst the many ways it… Read more »
Tesco, Blinkbox Marry DVD, Online Movies Ahead Of Ultraviolet
When Tesco bought 80 percent of online PPV movie vendor Blinkbox in April, paidContent reported how the UK supermarket giant would give buy… Read more »
DailyCandy Looks To Closer Ties Between E-Commerce And Ad Sales
With last week’s hiring of Gilt City’s Fernando Romero, as VP of ad sales of women’s lifestyle guide DailyCandy, the company has decided tha… Read more »
An E-Book Gifting Campaign, Starting On Cyber Monday
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In a holiday season when e-readers are more popular than ever, many consumers still don’t know how to give them to others as gifts. So today… Read more »
Mail Online Readers Say They Will Pay, But They Won't Be Forced To
“We’ve done qualitative research in the UK that did tend to indicate users of Mail Online would pay something for certain aspects of the con… Read more »
The Latest Chinese Export: Tencent's QQ Mobile Browser, Via GetJar
We’ve observed a lot of western companies looking to cash in on the explosive growth of China’s mobile population by taking their products i… Read more »
MPA: Majority Of Digital Magazine Readers Want In-App, E-Commerce Features
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Although advertising is the strongest part of print magazine publishers’ revenues streams, that area has been weakening for some time. In it… Read more »
Twilight 'Breaking Dawn' Viewers Set Fandango Mobile Ticketing Record
The latest installment of the Twilight movies, Breaking Dawn, enjoyed one of the top-grossing opening weekends of all time (for some inexpli… Read more »
Updated: Newsstand's Few Early Adopters Have Stolen A March On Laggards
Magazine and news publishers who have not yet joined iOS Newsstand have lost out to the system’s early adopters, according to research data. Read more »
Google Closes Register For Checkout, Moving Users To Google Wallet
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has decided to fold Google Checkout into its newly launched Google Wallet, in what fits right in with the pare-down-and-… Read more »
Major Newspaper Publishers Band Together On Social Shopping Portal
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A group of eight newspaper publishers — Advance Digital, A. H. Belo Corporation, Cox Media Group, Gannett (NYSE: GCI), Hearst, MediaNews Gr… Read more »
Condé Nast Partners With Art.com To Reopen Online Image Store
photo: Saul Steinberg, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Store
Condé Nast is relaunching its online image archives store in partnership with online prints and posters retailer Art.com as tries to find a… Read more »
Apple's Only Dipping A Toe Into Mobile Payments, But It Could Make A Splash
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has yet to give a line on where it sees NFC in its future product and service roadmaps, but that doesn’t mean the company… Read more »
Why The Share Prices Of Priceline And Expedia Are So Far Apart
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This 10-year price chart comparing shares of Expedia (EXPE) and Priceline (PCLN) essentially shows one of the great growth stocks of the pas… Read more »
How Independent Bookstores Sell E-Books
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Contests, neon signs, bookmarks and ninety-minute customer help sessions: Some of the ways that indie bricks-and-mortar booksellers are prom… Read more »
Marketing Misfires Trigger More 'Text Spam' Lawsuits
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Text messages are an irresistible marketing opportunity for brands to connect with their customers. But some text campaigns are tripping ove… Read more »
French Papers Buddy With Google For Kiosk Payments, Product Development
photo: Frédéric Filloux
The combined digital kiosk of eight French newspapers is adopting Google’s OnePass to facilitate all its customer payments beside iOS. Read more »
Shopping App Shopkick Adds 1,000 Old Navy Stores To Its Network
A big bump in business for bricks-and-mortar mobile shopping app Shopkick: the company has signed a significant deal with Old Navy clothing… Read more »
A Tale Of Two Strategies: Home And Away With Orange And Vodafone
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) and Orange have long been rivals in mobile phone markets in Europe, but as growth slows down in the region, the two are… Read more »
Branson's Next Mobile Act: An Investment In Mobile Payments Startup Square
Richard Branson is no stranger to investing in mobile media: among his more notable moves have been establishing *Virgin Mobile* years ago,… Read more »
FT Digital Subscriptions Have Grown Through Apple Fall-Out
The Financial Times’ digital subscriber base grew by eight percent in the period during which it pulled its iOS app off iTunes Store, as our… Read more »
The Independent Launches Overseas Press+ Meter, Pricey iPad Edition
The Independent newspaper has redesigned its website, introduced a metered charging system for North American readers and launched a free tr… Read more »
Emily Gould And The Rise Of The Indie E-Bookseller
photo: Lisa Corson
Independent bricks-and-mortar bookstores are struggling, but indie e-bookstores may just be the next big thing. Author and former Gawker edi… Read more »
Anobii Moves Forward With Direct-To-Consumer Book Sales
If a book catches your interest on British social reading site aNobii, you’ll now be able to buy it directly from the publisher. The site, w… Read more »
Partnership With Gilt City Shows Google’s New Focus On High-End Shoppers
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is collaborating with discount luxury network Gilt City as it looks to expand its Google Offers deals service. The partn… Read more »
How Much Are Social Networks Really Impacting Shopping Habits?
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If you read about the impact of social networks and deal sites on how people shop and what they buy when they are shopping, you would think… Read more »
Publishers See Apple Newsstand Sales Surge, But Ad Sales Slow To Follow
Condé Nast is the latest publisher to claim a boom in digital magazine sales from the launch of Apple’s Newsstand two weeks: the publisher… Read more »
A Publisher Does E-Commerce: Future Launches The Making Spot
Magazine publisher Future has launched an e-commerce site to sell knitting patterns, project materials and other crafts items, cutting acros… Read more »
Why Patent Bully Blackboard.com Became A Creative Commons Advocate
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How times change. In 2006, critics feared that one company would use a controversial patent to gain a monopoly over learning software in sch… Read more »
The Bestsellers: Steve Jobs And The Importance Of Pre-Orders
On the official morning of its release, Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs is #1 on the Kindle bestseller list, #1 in Apple’s iBookstore and #2 on… Read more »
Chart: Comparing The Two Timeses’ Subscriber Growth
News Corp.’s The Times and NYTCo’s The New York Times each introduced online charges in summer 2010 and March 2011 respectively. So how are… Read more »
