Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz the guys behind the paid content venture Journalism Online have sold their company to printing services firm RR Donnelley & Sons.
The deal should give Journalism Online a shot in the arm and possibly refocus its business on the B2B sector. Journlism Online’s problem to date has always been that it was unable to attract very many large publishers to its Press + system. Read More
A day after Apple launched its new content subscription system Google is making its play for paid content with the launch of its Google One Pass micropayment system, which will allow people to buy content on any platform from a publisher signed up.
It is being launched this afternoon in Germany and the biggest name signed up so far is Axel Springer AG and Gruner + Jahr’s Stern (for all your diary scoops). Read More
Here’s an interesting one. Steven Brill’s Journalism Online paywall system has put out a survey that claims newspapers using its paywall technology are noticing little difference in terms of traffic or advertising revenue.
The default belief is that web traffic evaporates as it is thought have done at The Times where it has put up a impenetrable anti-social media paywall. Not so elsewhere. Read More
This has been under the radar. Two companies in Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP Group are working together on a paid content initiative (don’t call it a paywall), called The Content Project (TCP).
It hopes to create a network of publishers who will offer readers an electronic wallet for buying content across a range of sites. Read More
An Italian newspaper is reporting that Google plans to launch a paid content system for publishers before the end of the year, according to a report in an Italian newspaper. Read More
News Corporation is powering ahead with its paid content plans as it acquires digital content store and e-reading platform Skiff and taken a stake in Steve Brill’s Journalism Online paywall venture. Read More
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