UK’s Biggest Regional Paper Goes Paid Online To Boost Circulation
The UK’s highest-circulation regional daily newspaper has introduced its pay-for website, which we previewed last month. Read more »
Sprint Also Working On Mobile Payments, Hopes To Launch This Year
Momentum around mobile payments continues to build as Sprint (NYSE: S) signaled its intention to jump into the race to build systems around… Read more »
The Mobile-Payments Business Is Heating Up
A recent article in The Wall Street Journal (NSDQ: NWS) mentioned that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) could team up with MasterCard and Citigroup to pu… Read more »
The Tulsa World Will Try A Paywall (Again)
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Four days after the New York Times rolled out its metered paywall system, the Tulsa World, a 93,558-circulation daily in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is… Read more »
Google’s Android Ready For In-App Purchases
After much discussion earlier this year Google’s in-app billing system for Android applications is out in the wild, with several major publi… Read more »
Microsoft Reportedly Considering Wireless Payments For Windows Phone 7
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Maybe this phone-as-wallet thing really is finally ready to take off. Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is set to jump on t… Read more »
UK Times Claims 79,000 Digital Subscribers
Frequently besmirched since it started charging online eight month ago, News International has, as it promised it would, issued a second set… Read more »
Ex-Googlers Launch ‘NYT For A Nickel’ As Publicity Stunt; NYT Not Amused
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Calvin Young and his partner Noah Ready-Campbell (pictured at left) left Google (NSDQ: GOOG) two months ago to start Minno, a company dedica… Read more »
UK Times Plans Upgrade To Its ‘Berlin Wall’
The Times is planning some changes to its paid digital model that could lead to more nuanced additions to its current hard in-or-out system. Read more »
Mail Online Kicking Google OnePass’ Tyres
Associated Newspapers is due to test out Google’s OnePass system for accessing and paying for content, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has confirmed. Read more »
Europeans Will Pay For Content–Why Are There So Few Compelling Options?
I’m often asked to name companies with a successful paid digital content strategy.
It’s harder than it should be to answer that question, e… Read more »
How The NYT’s Paywall Compares To Those Of Other Big Papers
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When the New York Times puts up its paywall later this month, it will be the fifth newspaper among the top 50 by circulation in the U.S. to… Read more »
RIM, Carriers Battling Over Mobile Payment Strategies
Stalled negotiations over how best to implement the promising NFC (near-field communications) wireless payment technology in Research in Mot… Read more »
How Much Revenue Can The New York Times Paywall Generate?
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So how much money will the New York Times generate with its new digital subscriptions? The company has said that about 15 percent of monthly… Read more »
How NYT Subscribers Can Get Print Plus Digital For Less Than Digital Alone
An apparent (and likely very purposeful) loophole in the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) paywall plans: At least two of the newspaper’s home deli… Read more »
Survey: Mobile News Readers Show Some Willingness To Pay
Some positive news for newspapers hoping to build digital subscription streams: A national phone survey shows that 30 percent of mobile news… Read more »
UK’s Mail Online Tinkering With Mobile Pricepoints
News pricing structures are clearly still being figured out on mobile, just as much as they are on websites.
Mail Online, the UK’s most-vis… Read more »
Advertisers Benefit From The Times’ Reader Fees, News International Claims
News International is claiming that advertisers have benefited from “significant lifts in user engagement and brand recall” due to charging… Read more »
Threatened Much? News-Subscription Vendor Tries To Stick It To Apple
In the fall-out from Apple’s recent subscription announcement, some vendors already operating in the online billing chain could be threatene… Read more »
Digital Mag Vendor Exact Extends Its Own iPad Subs Option
While Apple’s subscription announcement continues to make waves in publishing, one of the UK’s biggest sellers of tablet magazine editions i… Read more »
‘Freemium’ Goes Freer As Rhapsody Tries To Fend Off Peers
What’s the perfect harmony between free and paid in the subscription music world?
For March and April, Rhapsody has upped its usual 14-day… Read more »
UK’s Biggest Regional Paper Flipping The ‘Paid’ Web Switch
The UK’s best-selling regional daily newspaper will start requiring a bundled print-and-web subscription for the majority of its website art… Read more »
How UK Newspaper Subscriptions Stack Up
Subscriptions have rocketed pay-TV businesses like BSkyB (NYSE: BSY), are kickstarting movie services like Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and are set… Read more »
Mobile Payments: Paydiant Gets $7.6 Million; Square Drops Its Fees
It’s still very early days for mobile payments, but with operators, handset makers and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) jumping on the NFC bandwagon, the… Read more »
Germany’s Focus On Google One Pass: ‘It’s Just A Small Test’
The media hubbub around the launch of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google’s respective toll-booths for news last week has yet to die down. But ove… Read more »
Apple’s And Google’s Subscription Systems: Our Full Coverage
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This week saw a dramatic shift in paid content as Apple rolled out its new subscription policy and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) quickly followed suit… Read more »
The ‘Subscription Economy’ Is Growing, And It’s Bigger Than Just Media
Tien Tzuo is CEO of Zuora, a subscription-billing company based in Silicon Valley. Previously, he was the chief strategy officer and chief m… Read more »
Interview: Rdio CEO Says Subs Will Boom (But First, That Apple Problem)
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In the unlimited music subscription race, Drew Larner reckons his pay-for service has a much better shot at surviving than certain other riv… Read more »
Spooked Publishers State Their Demands To Tablet Platforms
Some publishers, associations and academics who met Thursday to discuss new subscription plans from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOO… Read more »
Apple Subs: Publishers Seek Clarity, FT Concerned, Some Sign Up
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The response from many publishers to Apple’s subscription announcement has been a shellshocked “errrr…” – many are confused exactly how th… Read more »
‘Apple Just F****d Over Online Music Subs’
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Apple’s new subscription rules could seriously hurt the nascent wave of unlimited-music subscription services just as they promise to return… Read more »
Dueling Paywalls: Brill & Crovitz’s Journalism Online vs. Google’s One Pass
One company set to face new competition now that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is rolling out its paid content system is Journalism Online, which to d… Read more »
Congress Wants To Shut Down ‘Rogue’ Websites, But Verizon Wants Limits
Just about every member of the the Senate Judiciary Committee seems amped up to pass some version of a controversial anti-piracy bill, the C… Read more »
With Google’s One Pass, Two More Newspaper Chains Join The Paywall Brigade
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Included in the announcement of Google’s long-expected One Pass paid content system for publishers is news that two more U.S. newspaper cha… Read more »
Apple Will Motor By Taking A Cut Of Renewals
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Apple’s new rules don’t just apply to new content subscriptions but to all subscription-related transactions thereafter as well. That could… Read more »
Google Pitches A ‘Flexible’ Paid Content System, ‘One Pass’
Anything Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) can do, can Google (NSDQ: GOOG) do better? Twenty-four hours after the former announced its subscription plans,… Read more »
Apple Subs: Some Publishers Relieved They Dodged A Bullet
Despite concern, many publishers are actually “relieved” – they feared Apple’s new subscription rules would be a lot more damaging. Read more »
Apple’s Landgrab Could Chill Or Cheer Content Subs
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Subscription digital content is one of the most promising opportunities for moving troubled media forward. Still wedded to its traditional s… Read more »
Apple Wants Its Share Of Content Subscriptions
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Confirming many recent reports, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) finally announced it wants to take a 30 percent cut of in-app content subscriptions. It b… Read more »
A.H. Belo To Put Up A Paywall At Its Flagship Paper
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A.H. Belo (NYSE: AHC) will begin to charge users to access some content on the site of its flagship Dallas Morning News, making the 264,459… Read more »
