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Magazine Publishers Start To Coalesce Around Better Digital Metrics
Hearst is following Conde Nast’s lead and will start releasing metrics on its paid iPad editions, the company announced today. Separately, the Association of Magazine Media has released a new set of...
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Lawsuit Says Circumstantial Evidence Enough To Prove e-Book Conspiracy
The plaintiffs who are accusing Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and publishers of fixing e-book prices say they don’t have to show an actual meeting took place. Instead, they say, indirect evidence like price jumps...
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Why Variety’s street value has plummeted in 4 years
Four years ago, Dutch-Anglo publisher Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) put its 107-year-old showbiz trade paper, Variety, on the auction block. It ultimately failed to find a buyer willing in the middle of a...
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Content payment system Piano takes more funding to go global
Piano Media, the paid content platform currently operating bundled kiosks in Slovakia and Slovenia, is taking a €2 million ($2.6 million) second round of venture investment to boost its globalisation...
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paidContent 2012: The conversation isn’t over
Several hundred execs filled The TimesCenter Wednesday for a day of intense conversation and discovery (on stage and off) about the current state of digital content online… and where we’re headed. Many...
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paidContent turns 10: A brief history of digital media
Remember when Friendster was the hot social network, publishers doubted that ebooks would ever sell, and Netflix thought DVDs in red envelopes was the future? We do — that was that state of digital...
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Rafat Ali’s Skift aims to be the Politico of travel websites
U.S. travel is a $2 trillion dollar industry, but Rafat Ali believes it doesn’t have a go-to, digital native news site the way the tech, finance and meda sectors do. So he decided to create one. His...
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In internet time, two months = nearly eight years
Nearly eight years ago, I took a two-month gig at paidContent to help Rafat out while I learned some valuable new skills. Many of you were incredibly patient and encouraging as I grappled with hand...
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One design, any screen: Introducing GigaOM’s new look and feel
You’ve no doubt had the experience of reading a site on your mobile phone and wondering why half the headline is chopped off, or the font size is so small you can’t read it. It just seems like the...
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If you are running advertorial or sponsored content, Google is watching you
We’ve described a number of times at paidContent how publishers large and small are looking for alternative sources of revenue as traditional advertising declines in value, and how some sites —...
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Publishing superstar Tim Ferriss joins us for paidContent Live in New York
We’ve been talking a fair bit lately about our paidContent Live conference in New York on April 17, because we are pretty excited about our speakers — from Guardian editor-in-chief and “open...
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In case you missed it: here are the transcripts from paidContent Live 2013
Last week in New York, hundreds of media professionals, influencers and watchers gathered at our paidContent Live conference to figure out exactly how the crazy disruption being visited up the media...
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What I learned at paidContent Live: No one has all the answers on the future...
When we started to put together the paidContent Live conference, which we held in New York last week, one of the driving forces behind our selection of speakers was to find those who are doing...
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One design, any screen: Introducing paidContent’s new look and feel
You’ve no doubt had the experience of reading a site on your mobile phone and wondering why half the headline is chopped off, or the font size is so small you can’t read it. It just seems like the...
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Don’t think of it as a newspaper — think of it as a platform for talent
Although they have since become a crucial element of modern society, in many ways newspapers were just the best packaging and delivery mechanism for information we had available at a certain point: a...
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Why we are moving our media coverage over to Gigaom
As one of the last remaining independent tech media startups, we have a keen interest in the future of the media business. And, for that reason among many, Gigaom bought paidContent in March 2012 in...
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The Morning Lowdown 3-29-12
» News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) said to plan U.S. sports network to rival ESPN (NYSE: DIS) (Bloomberg) » Magazines' digital… The Morning Lowdown 3-29-12 originally published by Gigaom, © copyright 2012....
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WSJ Pulls Down Paywall For 24-Hour 'Digital Open House'
The Wall Street Journal (NSDQ: NWS) is running a 24-hour "Digital Open House." For today, all subscriber content on the website, mobile site… WSJ Pulls Down Paywall For 24-Hour 'Digital Open House'...
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Harry Potter E-Books, Digital Audiobooks In Libraries Today
Two days after the Pottermore shop launched, Harry Potter e-books and digital audiobooks will be available in libraries as of noon ET today. Harry Potter E-Books, Digital Audiobooks In Libraries Today...
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Google Partners With Pandora, AdWeek, NYDN On New Paywall 'Substitute'
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is rolling out a new product, "Google Consumer Surveys," that lets publishers monetize content through "microsurveys" cr… Google Partners With Pandora, AdWeek, NYDN On New Paywall...
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