Wednesday, January 20, 2010
The New York Times Officially Starts Construction on Its Pay Wall: “Metered Model” Coming 2011
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Is That a Real New York Times App or a Fake? Apple Doesn’t Want to Know.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
The Secret Behind the Kindle’s Best-Selling E-Books: They’re Not for Sale
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Condé Nast’s Offering for Apple’s Mystery Tablet: Wired Magazine
Here’s yet another content creator that’s convinced Apple has a tablet device in the works: Condé Nast says it will have a digital version of Wired magazine ready for the purported gadget by the middle of next year and will eventually create similar versions for all of its 18 titles.
But Condé, like other publishers, says Apple won’t actually talk to the company about its plans for the device–or even acknowledge that it has plans.
Friday, October 30, 2009
BusinessWeek’s Future Is Cloudy, but Better Than It Could Have Been: The Grim Non-Bloomberg Scenario
BusinessWeek employees are waiting to hear if they’ll have jobs once Bloomberg takes over the publication, and I’m told that staffers expect to hear their fate shortly after Thanksgiving. That has to be unnerving, but I can at least offer a little bit of comfort in the worst-case scenario employees would be facing had they been purchased by private equity firm ZelnickMedia. The short version: Almost everybody gets fired.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
All The News We’ll Pay For: Why Newspapers’ Shrinking Circulation Isn’t All Bad
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Condé Nast Tries Turning the App Store Into a Newsstand: Will You Buy GQ for Your iPhone?
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Bloomberg Buys BusinessWeek for a Song, Plus Up to $5 Million
What’s one of the biggest names in magazine publishing worth? These days, maybe $5 million.
That’s the high end of the range Bloomberg will be paying for BusinessWeek, reports BusinessWeek. Next question: How many of the magazine’s employees stay on once the deal closes later this year? BusinessWeek publisher Keith Fox can’t make any assurances. But he does call the deal “exciting.”
Fighting Words! Time Warner Says Comcast/NBCU as Dumb as…Time Warner/AOL.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Publishers Like Time Inc.’s “Hulu for Magazines” Pitch. What Will Apple and Amazon Say?
Time Inc. has spent the past few months convincing other publishers to join a new joint venture aimed at a market that doesn’t really exist yet–magazine-like publications to be delivered via e-readers like Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s rumored tablet. Publishers like the idea. What will Apple and Amazon say?
Monday, September 14, 2009
The New York Times Explains How It Got Hacked: It Sold an Ad to a Hacker
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Home Delivery: The New York Times Serves Up Some Malware
Here’s a front-page story the New York Times would rather not be running: The paper is warning readers to be aware of bogus ads running on its Web site.
The paper says “some readers” have seen unauthorized pop-up ads promoting antivirus software on NYTimes.com, and warns visitors who see the ad not to click on it but to restart their browsers instead. While the Times doesn’t spell this out, it has likely had its site hijacked by a “malware” scammer who is trying to trick visitors into installing pernicious software onto their hard drives.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Think You Own the Book You Bought for Your Kindle? You Don’t, Says Amazon.
Buy an e-book for Amazon’s Kindle recently? You might want to check to see if it’s still on your device. Kindle users are complaining that the e-commerce giant has removed titles from their machines this week and given them refunds in their place.
What happened? The details are fuzzy, but apparently, a publisher that supplied Amazon with two George Orwell titles has decided that it doesn’t want to sell them via Amazon anymore. So away they went. Have at it, DRM-haters.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
How to Save Newspapers, Charity Edition
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