worldspy - 20.04.12 17:07 Belgian newspaper and magazine publishers are the latest to hope a joint digital news kiosk can prove profitable.
Such an initiative, GoPress, is now rolling out softly to offer chargeable access to replica editions.
GoPress is established jointly by digital newspaper scanning agencies Mediargus, which is owned by Belgian newspapers, and... mehr bei paidcontent.org

worldspy - 18.04.12 19:19 Having quickly become the world’s most-read newspaper website, Mail Online now looks like turning profitable earlier than expected.
“Last year, our revenues were £16 million. This year, Mail Online is very close to breaking even on revenues of a little over £25 million,” site publisher revealed to investment analysts at owner DMGT’s investor day... mehr bei paidcontent.org

worldspy - 18.04.12 14:30 Some UK newspaper publishers are now hastening the reform of their local titles challenged by digital consumption migration, the drying up of classified ads and rising print costs, a confluence of strategies suggests.

Johnston Press is turning five of its daily papers in to redesigned, “bumper” weekly editions with about 150 pages each, while... mehr bei paidcontent.org

worldspy - 17.04.12 23:54 When the Ian Fleming estate gave up the digital rights to the James Bond backlist last month, Random House UK’s Vintage grabbed the English-language print and e-book rights everywhere outside the U.S. and Canada. Well, guess who’s getting those North American digital rights? Amazon. mehr bei paidcontent.org

worldspy - 16.04.12 14:28 Children’s e-book reading is still in very early stages — but with parents increasingly handing iPads down to their kids, publishers see room for fast growth. Scholastic launched a children’s e-reading app, Storia, last month. Launching today is Ruckus Media Group’s new iPad app, which offers books for 3- to 8-year-olds from brands like My Little... mehr bei paidcontent.org

KMR - 07.03.12 18:30 Cosmopolitan (U.S. edition) is the first Hearst magazine to hit 100,000 paid digital subscribers, the company announced today.

Hearst said it’s sold over 500,000 digital subscriptions across its titles and, as previously stated, expects to hit 1 million paid digital subscribers by the end of 2012. mehr bei paidcontent.org

KMR - 05.03.12 22:04 The Economist is handing control of its website to its tablet magazines controller, in a bid to unite the previously competitive units.

Oscar Grut, who was formerly digital editions managing director, has been promoted to the new role of managing director for “Economist Digital” as a whole. mehr bei paidcontent.org

KMR - 02.03.12 06:41 Of course, these days the web is awash in aggregation and curation, not to mention shrill headlines. And there are increasing questions about whether those tactics are best path to building a loyal audience and, more importantly, a profitable business. mehr bei paidcontent.org

KMR - 23.02.12 07:33 In music, celestial jukeboxes like Spotify replace vinyl and CDs with unlimited back-catalogue access. Could magazine publishers grant their subscribers the same digital privilege?

“Very much so. It’s on our agenda,” Condé Nast UK digital director Jamie Jouning tells paidContent. mehr bei paidcontent.org

KMR - 16.02.12 06:49 More than a year and a half after News Corp.‘s flagship UK “quality” papers introduced new paid digital outlets, their effect is becoming clear - they are softening ongoing print circulation declines, but not overturning them.

Latest figures issued by News International show The Times and Sunday Times websites, apps and digital editions... mehr bei paidcontent.org