Paid Content Host SubHub Pivots To Be A Drupal ‘App Store’
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SubHub, whose web hosting and content management service is aimed at small publishers who want to charge for their content, is making a “com… Read more »
What We Learned About The Book Industry This Week
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We’d expected that Liberty Media’s bid for Barnes & Noble would be the most talked-about topic this week at BookExpo America, the largest tr… Read more »
Google Wallet: An Interesting Solution To A Problem That Doesn’t Exist?
The early contender for the all-hype-no-action award so far in 2011 has been mobile payments, and while it still won’t be available until la… Read more »
Google Unveils Mobile Payments System With Google Offers, Google Wallet
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is getting ready to lift the curtain on its long-planned mobile payments system, which involves turning Android-powered… Read more »
Where Book Publishers Can Find More Digital Talent
Can publishers develop the skills they need to survive in a digital world–social marketing, search engine optimization, app development–fr… Read more »
@ BEA: Is Google eBooks Planning A Rental Service?
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What’s next from Google (NSDQ: GOOG) eBooks? An e-book rental service, perhaps? Scott Dougall, Google Books Director of Product Management,… Read more »
Reports: Google’s Mobile Payments Strategy Is Ready For The Bill
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is finally ready to articulate its mobile-payments strategy at an event Thursday in New York, according to several repor… Read more »
Apple’s Letter To Lodsys: The Full Copy
We are still waiting to hear what Lodsys’ response will be to Apple’s letter to the company, in which it requests that the patent owner with… Read more »
Square’s New Mobile Payment Apps Let You Ring Up A Tab
While the big players in the payments industry haggle over the best way to turn mobile phones into credit cards, Square is doubling down on… Read more »
Blippy, A Poster Child For Over-Sharing On The Web, Moves On
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Maybe people don’t want to share everything online. Blippy, a site that let users share information about their “favorite purchases” with fr… Read more »
Flash Sales Hit The Book Business
Flash sales sites are all the rage, from Rue La La and Gilt to Groupon and LivingSocial. While book publishers have experimented with sellin… Read more »
@ pcMobile 2011: Location Services Are Trying To Find The Right Place
There’s been a good deal of worry over geo-location services embedded in iPhone and Android phones, after it was revealed that Apple (NSDQ:… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 5-18-11: Ericsson/Nortel/Clearwire; Apple Trademark; Lodsys
Our look at some of the stories in mobile today: As news hits of a new outsourcing deal with Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR), Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) c… Read more »
Is There A Market For Selling E-books In Brick And Mortar Stores?
One of the beauties of buying content digitally is that you don’t have to schlep to the store to purchase it, right? Well, according to one… Read more »
Post-Paywall, NYT Share Of Newspaper Web Traffic Drops
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The New York Times’ share of total page views to newspaper websites dropped by its largest margin in more than a year in April, the first fu… Read more »
FT Still Negotiating With Apple On iPad Subscriptions
With a month to go until publishers must either fall in with Apple’s new in-app purchasing terms or quit iOS in June, The Financial Times is… Read more »
NFC In Focus At Google I/O As Foursquare, Hashable Join Party
Add another item to the list of things to expect at Google (NSDQ: GOOG) I/O this week: much talk of (NFC) near-field communications technolo… Read more »
News Corp.’s Perry Solomon To Handle Digital Biz Dev At Time Inc.
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Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is making its first big digital hire since the Jack Griffin debacle ended Interactive Advertising Bureau head Randall… Read more »
News Corp. Appears To Favour Softer Paid Model For Britain’s Biggest Paper
Back in 2009, Rupert Murdoch declared: “We intend to charge for all our news websites.” Two years on, and it’s becoming clear that some will… Read more »
Hachette, Penguin, Simon & Schuster Team Up With AOL For Book Site: Bookish
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Three major publishers are behind the latest effort to boost print and digital book reading. Bookish, backed by Hachette Book Group, Penguin… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 05-06-11: Sony Ericsson/Facebook; T-Mobile; Visa; JiWire
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) updates its Xperia mini devices, and adds a “Fac… Read more »
Telegraph’s Digital Head: Open Mind On Web Fees
“Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) store is the most user-friendly route for subscribers,” Telegraph Media Group digital editor Edward Roussel tells paidCo… Read more »
NYT’s Nisenholtz Calls Reported 300,000 Digital Sub Goal ‘Inaccurate’
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Courtesy of my colleague Robert Andrews, I tuned into a replay of a BBC interview with New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) digital head Martin Ni… Read more »
Report: Mobile Payments Group Isis Scaling Back Plans For Payment Network
Mobile payments are a hot topic among phone makers, wireless carriers, and payment processing companies this year, and those groups looking… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 05-03-11: RIM Balsillie; Mobile Gaming; HTC; More
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Balsillie takes on marketing at RIM; (NSDQ: RIMM) a new mobile gaming forum breaks grou… Read more »
New York Magazine E-Newsletter To Aggregate Weekly Deals
New York magazine is about to launch a weekly “deals” e-newsletter and online adjunct, but instead of matching offers play to advertisers, i… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 04/29/2011: Market Share, Payments, Royal White iPhones
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile this morning: mobile market share reports galore, mobile payments continues to draw investment… Read more »
Game Group Tries To Grow Digital Sales
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Game Group is locked in a classic digital migration story that is all too familiar to publishers and fellow entertainment retailers alike. Read more »
The Times Gains New Subscribers With Groupon Discount
Times Newspapers has added nearly two percent more digital subscribers in the last three days, after discounting its online rates by 70 perc… Read more »
Hotel Reviews Site Oyster’s New Backer: The Travel Channel
The Travel Channel is investing in Oyster.com, as part of the hotel review site’s latest funding round. The cable channel tells the New York… Read more »
New York Times: More Than 100,000 Digital Subs In First Weeks of Paywall
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The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) says it has more than 100,000 paid digital subscribers in the first three weeks of its metered paywall. That… Read more »
WHERE CEO Doyle On eBay Deal
The mobile industry is notoriously fast-paced, but if it’s possible the race to build mobile payment systems is moving even faster. As big n… Read more »
WHERE It Is: eBay Buys Mobile App Developer For PayPal
One of the companies best known for Internet payments is strengthening its position amid the next big land rush: mobile payments. eBay (NSDQ… Read more »
Magazine Publishers Scramble To Streamline Their App Production
Magazine publishers are not only trying to pack more features and content into their apps — they’re also trying to design for an ever-growi… Read more »
Why Subscription May Not Be The Panacea In Entertainment
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Subscription digital access is increasingly the hot business model for multi-platform entertainment distributors.
But, to Lovefilm, which p… Read more »
Wal-Mart Buys Kosmix As Part Of ‘Social Commerce’ Push
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Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) is buying long-standing search technology firm Kosmix in what the big-box retailer is describing as a move to expand in… Read more »
AOL Realigns Ad Sales Along Specific Categories; Five New ‘Practice Heads’
As AOL’s dismal display revenues appears to have put the worst behind it, the company is refining its ad sales approach in the hopes of deve… Read more »
KupiVIP Takes Record Funding To Be Western Retailers’ Gateway To Russia
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KupiVIP, a Russian online shopping club for luxury brands, is taking what its spokespeople tell us is a record investment for Russian e-comm… Read more »
Jay Walker Goes Nuclear: Priceline Founder Sues More Than 100 Companies
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Is Jay Walker jealous of Paul Allen? Allen got a lot of press when he sued 11 big internet companies last year, essentially saying he patent… Read more »
UK Government Will Press Ahead With Giving Away Paid Content To Libraries
The UK government still aims to press ahead with plans that would allow Britain’s main libraries to harvest and make freely available materi… Read more »
