The Newsonomics of Tablets Replacing Newspapers

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 have a tablet by 2014.) All admit that it’s ...

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The Newsonomics of All Access — & Apple

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 about all-access and exhorted those publishers with ...

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Pearson: Running Away from the Ad Economy

3% of company revenues come from advertising. That's not an issue in education and book publishing, of course, but shows how much Pearson has insulated itself from the carnage we're seeing in businesses, mainly dependent on advertising for their sustenance.

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