Apple bought the unlimited magazine subscription service, Texture, earlier this year. The rate used to be $14.99 per month, but in July it dropped down to $9.99 per month. Nothing really has been done with the platform yet, but Apple has grand plans to relaunch the service and publishers are worried. The Texture relaunch will be a premium product that will be rolled into … [Read more...] about Apple Texture Relaunch has digital newspaper companies worried
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You can now Subscribe with Google to Newspapers with a Paywall
Google has just unveiled a new system that allows you to subscribe to a digital newspaper with your Google Account. No longer will you have to manually register with each publication and deal with a myriad of passwords that require a special character and the two non-repeating numbers. The initiative is called Subscribe with Google and it seeks to eliminate many … [Read more...] about You can now Subscribe with Google to Newspapers with a Paywall
Google Search Results Prioritizing Digital Newspaper Subscribers
Google is going to rollout a new system that will put a greater emphasis for digital newspapers you subscribe to in broad search results. Several publishers, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and the Washington Post, are focusing on getting readers to pay for their content as it becomes more difficult to support newsrooms with advertising revenue. Once you … [Read more...] about Google Search Results Prioritizing Digital Newspaper Subscribers
Digital Newspaper Subscription Fees Gettings Cheaper
Digital newspaper subscriptions are poised to become cheaper this year, due to companies slashing their fees. The average price for a digital newspaper subscription is $2.31 per week, according to a new report from the American Press Institute, or about $10 per month or $120 per year. That’s actually down slightly from a 2016 API report that pegged the average weekly price of … [Read more...] about Digital Newspaper Subscription Fees Gettings Cheaper
Do you prefer audiobooks, ebooks or other digital content?
Good e-Reader Intelligence recently conducted extensive research on what type of digital content readers prefer. The vast majority of users continue to be enamoured with ebooks, while audiobooks have made solid gains. Over a one month period 799 people casted their vote and proclaimed what type of content they use on a daily basis. 491 proclaimed their love of ebooks and … [Read more...] about Do you prefer audiobooks, ebooks or other digital content?
Advertisers still Wary of Digital Newspapers
Consumers have started to embrace the idea of digital newspapers instead of print over the course of 2014. Advertisers have slowly started to gravitate towards promoting their brands on mobile and tablet Spending has grown in the United Kingdom 17.4% this year to £163 million, but analysts are speculating that it will only marginally increase by 8.1% next year. Digital … [Read more...] about Advertisers still Wary of Digital Newspapers
Le Monde Digital Newspaper Strategy Flounders
Le Monde, the largest newspaper in France is resisting modernizing their digital presence and has driven away editor Natalie Nougayrède. She had been working for the paper for over 14 months and her staff basically revolted over her mandate to redesign the newspaper and their line of apps. The deciding factor that contributed to her demise was the transferring of more than 50 … [Read more...] about Le Monde Digital Newspaper Strategy Flounders
Newspaper Industry Revenue Falls in 2013
The newspaper industry has lost billions of dollars in the last 10 years in advertising revenue due to Google and has seen a decline in subscriptions. A new report from the Newspaper Association of America paints a bleak picture of revenue in 2013. The Newspaper Association of America said revenue fell 2.6% to $37.6 billion in 2013. Meanwhile advertising revenue fell 6.5% … [Read more...] about Newspaper Industry Revenue Falls in 2013
Satirical Newspaper The Onion Goes Strictly Digital
After twenty-five years of providing satirical headlines, articles, and features, some of them meant to take a stab at politics or religion, others simply intended to be pointlessly funny, The Onion will no longer be available in print. According to an article on the move to digital by Lynne Marek for Crain's Chicago Business, the paper has been slowly phasing out some of … [Read more...] about Satirical Newspaper The Onion Goes Strictly Digital
Popular UK Newspapers Increase Digital Subscriptions by 20%
Digital newspapers are doing quite fine in the UK as the Times and Sunday Times have seen their digital circulation increase by over 20%. Currently over 150,000 readers subscribe to the digital editions only of the two publications and their print side accounts for 350,000. "The Times and Sunday Times pioneered digital subscriptions and today we can see a solid customer … [Read more...] about Popular UK Newspapers Increase Digital Subscriptions by 20%
More Publishing Blame: Craigslist is Killing Newspapers
It's astonishing that so many aspects of publishing are so slow to adapt. From the fight that libraries are still facing over ebook lending to the snail's pace of digital textbook adoption, as well as the realization from booksellers that they will have to do something to accommodate ebooks if they plan to keep their doors open with big box and online bookstores breathing … [Read more...] about More Publishing Blame: Craigslist is Killing Newspapers
Periodical Reading on Tablets on the Rise, Kindle Fire in the Lead
comScore, a global leader in measuring statistics on digital content consumption, released its findingson digital magazine and newspaper use by consumers for the previous period. While the overall numbers of subscribers who read throughout a one-month period on their tablets wasn’t surprising—and in fact, was a very encouraging indicator of consumer choice—there were some … [Read more...] about Periodical Reading on Tablets on the Rise, Kindle Fire in the Lead
Newspapers See Disappointing Print, Digital Ad Revenue
One of the greatest media for the print versus digital divide is the newspaper industry. As more daily print newspapers around the country close, from the  long-standing family-owned papers to corporation-sized outlets who once held millions of subscribers, that arm of the publishing world is struggling to adapt and stay afloat. With more readers relying on tablets, … [Read more...] about Newspapers See Disappointing Print, Digital Ad Revenue
News Corp’s ‘The Daily’ Will Debut on Android Tablets This Month
The Daily will soon be available for Android based devices. The first to get this application brings news live to gadgets are the Android tablets from Verizon, via an update this month. Currently, this news application is only available for iPad's and is the only news application that iPad users have access to. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 from Samsung will be the first to feature … [Read more...] about News Corp’s ‘The Daily’ Will Debut on Android Tablets This Month