April 28, 2024
In five languages (English, Mandarin, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian) and two U.S. printing, “Newsonomics: Twelve Trends That Will Shape the News You Get” is the first Ken Doctor book. Sign up here for notice of the new Newsonomics Readers.
In a potentially game-changing move, Amazon will begin offering free to dirt-cheap subscriptions to The Washington Post to its tens of millions of Prime members, I’ve learned. The program begins today. While Amazon has never released the number of its Prime memberships, the latest estimates ...
Read MoreWhat do all of these newspaper buyers have in common? They don’t have to look back at loss and what used to be. They’ve bought strong brands with tens or hundreds of thousands of reader/customer relationships and thousands of advertising relationships. Those are the kinds of assets that a ...
Read MoreHere’s what most hurts most about the new Amazon threat: It aims directly at the one category of newspaper advertising that has fared the best, retail. Classifieds has decimated by interactive databases. National has migrated strongly digital. Retail, which made up of just 47 percent of ...
Read MoreThere’s an irony to such publisher partnerships, of course. On the one hand, Google is a “partner,” magnifying publisher businesses through its ad and search products. On the other, initiatives such as Google Tomorrow are a potential dagger to newspapers’ jugular. That’s the way of the web ...
Read MoreNow let’s turn the news and magazine industry, and ask a few questions: --What’s the difference between a shipping fee and a subscription? --What’s the difference between a buyer and a reader? --What’s the difference between a newspaper subscription and a membership that gets you “free” media?
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