Here’s a new paywall perk: Digital subscribers to the U.K.’s Times or Sunday Times can get a free year-long membership to Spotify Premium (normally $9.99 or £9.99 per month), through a special offer starting this… Read more »
Publishers’ lack of strategic focus on licensing and syndication today is matched by nearly equal indifference from software developers, entrepreneurs, and investors. Millions of investment dollars and countless development hours have… Read more »
Subsidized reading devices are a reality for digital content publishers. News Corp’s Times is giving a big discount off Google’s Nexus 7 to folks who pay for its news each month. Read more »
Like the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland, the New York Times is having to run faster and faster to try to fill the gap left by declining advertising revenue, but… Read more »
Having blocked search crawlers since 2010, News International’s The Times will now let engines index a couple of sentences from articles. But don’t bet on the ‘wall’ coming down entirely -… Read more »
Rupert Murdoch’s resignation from News Corp’s UK publishing boards – part of the company’s separation in to two companies – suggests dreams of a converged, multimedia power player may never come… Read more »
News Corp. billionaire Rupert Murdoch has confirmed that the company is considering splitting itself in two, with the newspaper assets spun off as a separate entity. What would — or could… Read more »
Some UK publishers are trying their hands at new digital experiences to milk the sixtieth anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s accession to the throne this weekend. Read more »
Growing online subscriptions and still-falling print circulation mean the 227-year-old newspaper nicknamed ‘The Thunderer’ could soon be consumed more in pixels than in ink. Read more »