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Introducing “Flipboard Pages” – by Flipboard
Nonetheless, Flipboard users today were greeted with a publishers message announcing their print media centred product called Flipboard Pages.
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Murdoch’s PayWall Not Working – so he’ll just pay you to read his paper
If you have been reading our blog over the past 12 months, you will know that we’ve tried our best to keep you all current on the newspaper publisher paywall discussions. So, with that commitment, we bring you this little tidbit of news. It seems as though Rupert Murdoch has taken to paying folks to pick up the printed version of his newspaper. Let me explain…
Top US Newspapers by Circulation: 2006 to 2010
The ABC has released their mid term report on US Newspapers, based on circulation and below is their list of the top 25 newspaper titles across the US. The numbers cover the period of April to September, 2010, and the comparisons are based on the same period last year.
USA Today Restructures for Future Focus on Digital Media
USA Today has announced a restructuring plan that will see it’s workforce reduce by 130, against its 1,500 total number of employees. The planned USA Today restructuring is slated to take into consideration the increasing need for Web property optimization, the reduction in ad dollars being spent with the publisher, along with the reduction in circulation revenues
Gannett’s Pay Wall Test
In case you missed it this past weekend, Gannett Inc. tested pay walls with three of it’s titles, The Greenville News, The Spectrum, and The Tallahassee Democrat.
Looking Past Pay Walls to ‘Link’ Traffic Sabotage
TechDirt covered a story today on Japanese newspaper the Nikkei and how they plan to surpass pay walls to complete their protectionist plan. The Nikkei, plans to block links that direct users to the stories on Nikkei.com. I guess in their mind a few things are at play:
European Newspapers Introduce More Online Payment Walls
it appears as though the European markets are moving along at an aggressive rate to introduce online newspaper payment walls; more so than any US organization and a lot of that has to do with circulation penetration by geography.
Marc Reeves on Newspaper Payment Walls
In this video, Reeves discusses the matter of payment wall models not only in a broad sense, but also as it pertains to niche vertical sites, as he references the Financial Times.
What New Yorkers Are Saying About Paying for News Online
We’ve spent a lot of time of late discussing the payment wall that some of our newspapers are looking to install online, so coming across this interviewers, live and front line survey or New Yorkers, on this very same topic, was of great interest to us.
How Newspaper Payment Walls Could be Damaging
The ‘pay for access’ debate around traditional media sites is still in its prime, with passionate arguments being made for both sides. From our perspective, the general application of charging readers to access content online, is a compounded mistake.
