Newsonomics: Single-copy Newspaper Sales Are Collapsing, and It’s Largely a Self-Inflicted Wound

Have you bought a lonely single copy of a newspaper lately, from a newsstand or a newspaper box? Probably not. Neither are many other people. Single-copy newspaper sales — which not that long ago made up as much as 15 to 25 percent of sales — are obsolescent, dropping in double digits per year ...

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New Numbers from The New York Times: One Gold Star for Managing the Digital Transition

Follow Newsonomics @kdoctor   First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab   Look at The New York Times Co.’s Q1 earnings report, released and webcast today, this way: The Times — for now — is doing an above-average job of managing the print-to-digital transition. Several ...

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New York Times Digital Transition: Worth $34 million (annually) and counting

In 2010, the New York Times took in $683 million in circulation revenue. So a 5% change in that number is about $34 million annually. That's our key number of the moment. A trajectory to add $34 million to Times revenue, without negatively affecting print or digital ad revenues. It's not the ...

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The Newsonomics of Apple’s “Digital Circulation” Share

If Apple snapped its fingers and transformed the print industry tomorrow, its 30-percent take of worldwise circulation revenue would be $10.2 billion. That’s a fantastical number, of course: No fingers can be snapped, not all print readers will transition, pricing will change, and so on. But we ...

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