April 25, 2024
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Is part of the plan a backdoor Sunday paper/digital access new bundle? Three of the people I talked with on the day of the announcement had begun to run the subscribe-to-Sunday, get-free-digital access numbers in their head. At a $4-a-week introductory rate, that’s $208 a year. Which gets you ...
Read MoreWhat’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 third year, and 5 percent each subsequent year ...
Read MoreWe hear about mobile, about using analytics, about learning from other media and, of course, lots on metering. That makes sense: A new Strib board member is Gordon Crovitz, a co-founder of Journalism Online, whose Press+-based metering approach will get a good test this year. If you could get a ...
Read MoreKey: The ability to create new value in the short term with the infusion of new leadership and new thinking. This is the key that unlocks the value Angelo Gordon believes is hidden in the encrusted legacies of these print properties. Of course, that's in its private equity DNA: bring in people ...
Read MoreThe 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 MoreHere's my sense of the biggest questions ahead for it: * Scale: First and foremost, this is the challenge for any new solution, no matter how potentially game-changing. The network effect is a web law, and one of which news companies have so far failed to take sufficient advantage. If the goal ...
Read MoreI see a theme here. No, of course, Journalism Online hasn't brought in David Boies with the notion of litigating. After all, it's a company that is in the talking stages, first with publishers, but presumably soon with search aggregators. You don't even have to mention "anti-trust" to Eric ...
Read MoreThe New Barbarians are about to enter the boardroom, as the New York Times expands its governing body by two, "welcoming" Firebrand’s Scott Galloway and Kohlberg & Co.’s James Kohlberg. It’s a big deal — the first time in the 41-year-old public company ...
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