Category Archives: Business Models
Link wrap: Hari’s apology, Hearst turns to html 5, Boston Globe’s new paywall site
A few links from the past week or so. The Guardian Launches a New US Homepage The Guardian revealed a new url for the US – guardiannews.com – marking the start of its digital operation in New York. The new venture – headed up by Janine Gibson, formerly editor of guardian.co.uk – will create a [...]
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A simple test for whether people will pay for news
So you’re a daily newspaper guy and you think people have always paid for news. Fair enough. Some of your readers probably do pay for news. But if you want to charge for your news online you’re going to need to know roughly how many people are willing to pay for it so you can [...]
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Tablet owners ‘read newspapers, magazines less often’
A couple of interesting observations in this June 30 post from Jeff Sonderman on Poynter. He cites Forrester Research (via TechZone360) showing that tablet owners read newspapers less often than they did before owning a tablet. Almost one-third (32 percent) of tablet owners say they read printed newspapers less often, according to the market research [...]
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“Let people take your content with them”