Subscriptions
Online magazine subscription site reports big Christmas sales increase
ThreePM sees 60% uplift with revenues topping £1.5 million Read more...
Publishing Consortium Now Called Next Issue Media
The consortium of New York's largest magazine publishers have comp up with a name for its initiative to create a digital news stand platform. (Source: NYConvergence) Read more...
Sony adds newspaper subscriptions to ebook reader
Sony believes it can beat the Amazon Kindle to become the dominant ebook reader (Source: Telegraph.co.uk) Read more...
USA Today offers e-Edition to some colleges
USA Today is attempting to fight a record rate of declining subscriptions by testing an online edition of the newspaper at some colleges according to an Associated Press report. Read more...
Murdoch Warns That Without eTablets, “Newspapers Will Go Out Of Business.”
Old habits die hard. Rupert Murdoch believes that the future of the newspaper business is subscriptions—electronic subscriptions. Read more...
The Spectator launches iPhone application - as a subscription
Just as it's shutting its former website and now online magazine archive behind a paywall, political magazine The Spectator is also launching a paid-for iPhone app with a difference ... Read more...
What are the latest trends in subscription marketing?
Subscriptions are becoming increasingly important to publishers. Yet what are the key benchmarks against which current performance can be measured? Read more...
Web users prefer subscriptions to micropayments, reveals poll
If their favourite news site started charging for content, just 5% of Brits would pay. So exactly how would users prefer to cough up their cash? Read more...
Journalism Online Signs Up 1000 Affiliates
Journalism Online, a venture aimed at generating revenue for news publishers by charging readers for online content, has announced it now has more than 1,000 affiliates who have signed on to its platform. Read more...
Half of Newspaper Publishers Believe Online Pay Walls Will Work
More than half of newspaper publishers believe readers will pay to access online newspaper content, according to a survey conducted by industry consultants Greg Harmon and Greg Swanson for the American Press Institute. Read more...