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What’s a solution to the mess? Well, there are any number of solutions. Here’s mine: Apple goes ahead and sells digital subscriptions in its store. On revenue shares, it takes 30 percent the first year, 20 percent the second year, 10 percent the ...
Digital circulation money, though it may the highest profile part of this story, isn't the most curious issue involved here. There are at least three big issues for media companies -- and you can put Netflix, Hulu and Rhapsody in the mix here ...
That’s right. You’re no longer a “user”, a hateful term if ever one were invented, or a “visitor,” or a brother from another digital planet. Overnight, you’re a customer again.
In this psychology, a news company has put a value on what it ...
It comes down to something old-fashioned: News judgment. MPR had the same access to NPR's feed of the press conference as other stations, I'd presume. Yet, it was the only I found (perhaps there were others) that handled the news best and ...
Internet TV is no longer in its infancy; it's toddlin'. Yet our human capacity for change, and our expectation of it, may always be a step ahead. As consumers, we expect all these connections to be made, and yesterday. Given the pace of tech ...
What will The Daily do with Cairo's Time? Egypt is the story of the week. With The Daily planning on being a daily, not an instant, news product, its thinking and philosophy will be tested Day One. If it has yesterday's Egypt news, as the ...
So if the cost run-rate is about $15 to $18 million a year, and subscription revenues net at $7 million, News Corp. would need $8 to $11 million a year in ad revenues to break even. Certainly possible, if that 200,000 number is hit and ...
A few companies are now laying new strategy, based on private projections. They are forecasting that 20-25 percent of their print readers will migrate to the tablet within five years. (Remember, at the forecast rates, one in five Americans would ...
Put these three phenomena together — a multi-platform world in which the tablet becomes a prime part of daily news reading, reading that will be partly charged for — and you have the shiny new business model of 2011: all-access. I’ve written ...
500. As in the S&P 500. Out: The New York Times Company and Kodak. In Netflix and Cablevision. Lots of telling meaning in those moves. One on the face of it: Video is ascendant as a business model, in multiple ways. A second, Kodak's not a ...
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