Boston.com’s New Strategies: Retention and Switch
The idea, then, in Boston, is to rebuild, over time, that strong two-legged business. In short, this is two-headed strategy: retention and switch.
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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 ...
Read MoreThe Quote
That's the conclusion of a McKinsey "study" that bring a lot of numbers -- but a set of assumptions that are mind-boggling to the question of the "balance" of customer benefit and producer value on the web. Seems to be it places 1990 assumptions on the 2010 world. But, it makes a case to ...
Read MoreThe Number
So, if it is newspapers' strategy to transition paying readers to digital devices, charging them along the way, some part of that $34 billion will move to tablets, e-readers, iPads, Streaks and whatever the next generation of devices are called. If Apple snapped its fingers, and transformed the ...
Read MoreBill Keller on the Liberal New York Times….and More
It's a tough dance, and one that conservatives love to watch. I'm struck by how different the dance is in the UK, another English-speaking country with a fairly decent history of democracy and free press. There, the Guardian -- which is now getting a global profile for its work, courtesy of its ...
Read MoreApple & the News Industry: Accommodate, Negotiate or Litigate?
Negotiation is helped greatly by competition. Ironically, Google, the first big web middleman to drive the newspaper industry nuts, may prove useful here as its Android-powered tablets (Samsung, Dell and more) take on the iPad. Can Google strike a 10% deal with the newspapers, setting a ...
Read More9 Questions on Apple’s “iTunes for News” Store
Isn't Apple wanting 30% of fees for apps a little like [Sony CEO] "Howard Stringer demanding 30% of the revenue produced by TV shows running on Sony TV sets"? That's how a friend put it to me when we talked today. It's a confusing world, no doubt, but still Apple is fundamentally a ...
Read MoreWhat the Christian Science Monitor Can Teach the Mormon Deseret News: The Old Church of News & Stated Religion
Somehow, the Monitor has managed for more than a century to straddle its religious and journalistic instincts, and its readers have benefited. Can the new Deseret News do the same? Can it get beyond its own talking points -- and talk journalism?
Read MoreThe Newsonomics of Public Radio’s Argonauts
The Argo funding is one of the first things that tells us about the business of this effort. Like Silicon Valley startups, the effort is about building a product that seems to meet a clear audience need, building that audience — and then finding a sustainable business model. That’s what has ...
Read MorePoor 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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