We are used to thinking of a “mass media” market made up of large newspapers and TV networks as the normal state of affairs in media, but what if that was just a historical anomaly? Read more »
Is offering your readers membership benefits a better approach to revenue generation than putting up a hard paywall? The tech commentary site Techdirt thinks so, and has launched some interesting new features that other traditional media companies might want to pay attention to. Read more at GigaOM »
Online research database ProQuest’s usual customers are libraries and other large institutions that can afford to pay a lot for access. ProQuest’s new cloud-based tool, Udini, aims to make Internet research easy and affordable for everyday people — and builds in some Evernote and Instapaper-inspired features. Read more »
The Economist is handing control of its website to its tablet magazines controller, in a bid to unite the previously competitive units. Read more »
Penguin UK and the Economist are partnering on a series of e-singles, “Penguin Economist Specials.” The partnership makes sense since Pengui… Read more »
The Economist has given HTML web apps another shot in the arm by packaging its U.S. presidential election material in to a new Flipboard-lik… Read more »
It may seem retrograde, but The Economist, like many publishers, is super-bullish about how digital tablets, more than websites, align perfe… Read more »
On the heels of the Economist claiming one million monthly mobile readers of its magazine across Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Android devices, ano… Read more »
The Economist said more than three million of its iOS and Android apps have been downloaded, as it reported six percent higher half-year ope… Read more »
The Economist will next week revoke premium digital subscriptions from some users after realising it had been accidentally servicing them fo… Read more »
The Economist is finally moving to an iPad strategy compliant with Apple’s new developer terms, after what it calls “iOS bugs” under the new… Read more »
The FT and Penguin are two of the most recognized brands among those owned by media giant Pearson (NYSE: PSO). But should the company sell t… Read more »
Aegis Media, the media buying and marketing division of Aegis Group, is beefing up its mobile assets and activity: it is taking an undisclos… Read more »
On June 30th, the French consortium ePresse opened its digital kiosk. Six months of hard work for a very small team (the ePresse consortium… Read more »
Almost all British-based newspaper and magazine publishers are contemplating losses or declining profits. But the Economist group, as it doe… Read more »
*ABC* data is out today for UK autumn and winter magazine sales. The industry’s Periodical Publishers’ Association (PPA) optimistically sees… Read more »
Fair to say, due to a combination of system complexity and ongoing iOS-mania, publishers have been slow to embrace Android.
But here is a d… Read more »
The Economist has got around to releasing an iPad (and iPhone) edition (expected Friday). Built by TigerSpike, which also built The Times’ E… Read more »
In a sign that online distribution to tablets can take printed publications in to territories that were previously unreachable, The Economis… Read more »
The Economist is once again extending the range of its paywall, Mediaweek reports. Last October, the magazine, which already commands one o… Read more »
On Monday morning, I helped Beet.tv executive producer Andy Plesser host his latest roundtable discussion on the future of online video, at… Read more »
Even if there wasn’t a recession this year, 2009 was always going to be a crunch year for B2B and consumer magazine publishers, given the pu… Read more »
Economist.com is taking two steps to charge for more content…
– Already charging for articles older than 12 months, it’s extending the t… Read more »
It was in October, on stage at our Future Of Business Media conference, that The Economist publisher Paul Rossi first wondered about the res… Read more »
Mobile content, sorta: Add this to the list of paid content scenarios currently being tested by news publishers … The Economist has rolled… Read more »
– Newsquest re-launch: The Gannett-owned regional publisher has given a facelift to 150 of its newspaper websites, including Telegraphandar… Read more »
It was rare to see a printed-news publisher doing well financially before the recession, so its even more notable to see one making money no… Read more »
Economist Group is to make 13 jobs redundant — two in commercial services and two editorial staff on its paid-for analysis service Economis… Read more »
Economist.com took a pass on the free-content phenomenon first time around – now, just as flares and yo-yos came back in to fashion, the pub… Read more »
Economist Group’s £100,000 project to think up a social web platform may have flatlined last year – but the publisher now has another long… Read more »
