Poor Circulation: Are Newspapers Ready for Tablet’s Prime Time?
Are newspaper companies at all ready for prime-time of tablet news-reading world?
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Reuters Insider Notches Up the News Video Battle
The Reuters Insider product is impressive, a model of what can be done by companies recognizing changing digital habits, and the technologies that support them. What’s most impressive about the product is its aggregation, the sheer amount of content that it brings together in an intutive interface.
Read MoreThe Newsonomics of the FT as an Internet Retailer
“Where we’ve found inspiration is Internet retail, not publishing,” he told me last week. “We’re becoming a direct Internet retailer and we have to have expertise to do that. When you do that with publishing, it looks like a different business.”
Read MoreThe Newsonomics of Replacing Larry King
Can CNN find a digital upgrade to the analog King?
Read MoreFT Direct Syndication Model Offers Lessons
The FT made a significant break from traditional practice by reclaiming control of its licensing activities. At that point, it said that building and growing direct customer relationships, rather than indirectly licensing via aggregators, was a top goal.
Read MoreiPad and the New Five-Fingered Exercise
I think we'll see these companies go head-to-head for reader and subscriber dollars. As they do, I think they'll face a new five-fingered exercise. Raise one hand; five is the probably the maximum number of iPad news sites for which readers will pay.
Read MoreNine Questions on the Tablet and the News Industry Future
The Apple model, in a sense, just sets a new cost-of-distribution. While web distribution has been free-plus, the cost of Apple distribution – if you charge for news products – is a predictable, and seemingly stable 30%. Just give me 30% off the top, says Steve Jobs. Ironically, that 30% is ...
Read MorePearson: 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.
Read MoreThe Newsonomics of Social Media Optimization
Social media optimization will meet propensity modeling — the Financial Times‘ secret sauce, now being tasted gingerly by the New York Times — all in an effort to find out how, where, when and why you can engage sustainable customers.
Read MoreThe Times Meter: Why 2011?
Why 2011? That’s a compelling question about the New York Times’ metering announcement, one that I somehow missed in my list of nine (“Nine Questions: New York Times Goes Metered” ). It’s a good one, given that making a mid-January announcement of a 2011 business move is highly unusual ...
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