Yesterday, I blogged on how The New York Times paywall was working as its digital subscriber numbers grow.
Today the Financial Times has issued an update on how its paywall is going from strength to strength and has broken through a significant barrier. Read More
As we reported a couple of days ago the New York Times Company is celebrating an increase in traffic to one of its newspaper websites since the introduction of a paywall in August. Which bodes well for the success of the paywall planned for its flagship title.
Not so good for its print circulation figures is the news that more people are following the New York Times on Twitter than are actually buying the paper.
British iPad owners and soon-to-be owners can rejoice – Apple has finally switched on its iPad App Store in the UK, which means that users can now purchase apps directly, rather than via a US iTunes account. Read More
Bloomberg.com is doing away with its traditional text-heavy, straight-news website, with a redesign that embraces multimedia and aesthetics, revealing its intentions to take-on its rivals in the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. Read More
Despite the iPad’s $500 price point, device owners are willing to shell out a little more for top news apps, led by the Wall Street Journal, which has sold 3,200 of its $200 yearly iPad subscriptions in two weeks.
The Wall Street Journal iPad app, which has been called “the most advanced”, “fancy” and “must-have” by bloggers, costs $17.29 per month, twice as much as the WSJ’s $8 online-only subscription. Read More
You’ve no doubt heard it before that location is the next big thing. It’s about to get much bigger. With Facebook about to announce new location-based features at their developer conference late this month, location is about to take a giant leap forward.
Combine that with talk of a Foursquare sale, and the growing list of companies (FT and Starbucks being only the most well-known) starting to use Foursquare check-ins as a whole new form of promotional CRM, and this space is rapidly becoming a hot-bed of focus and innovation. Read More
USA Today has led the way on Apple iPad downloads as the honeymoon is officially over. A week after trusted technophiles put the iPad through its paces the reviews remain mostly positive; but it’s clear the device isn’t the revolution or saviour gadget-addicts and publishers had hoped for.
With about 300,000 sold in the US on the first day and 300,000 more since; with a million app downloads (mostly games), the experts remain lukewarm towards the device. Read More
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