Quick first impressions of the launch of Apple News+
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A collection of 12 posts
New business models for journalism
Journalism needs a new business model. Hell, it need many new models. Here's a bunch of them from news:rewired
The Spectator is harnessing digital to get record print sales
This is rather spectacular: Spectator subscriptions are at an all-time high, but not only that — print subscriptions are, too. Here’s how editor Fraser Nelson expains it: Digital is behind the renaissance of print. The website brings millions of people…
Compass News: the latest attempt to build a Netflix for news
There’s a new journalism aggregator in town, called Compass – and it’s attempting to be a Netflix for news. Isolde Walters spoke to Matilde Giglio about the subscription-based app: It’s a bit like your Facebook timeline but instead…
Coffee and newspapers: a business model blend
Richard Horgan: From north of the border, a rather interesting new revenue experiment. Canada’s largest newspaper, the Toronto Star, this week announced the launch of a new monthly in-house subscription service: Headline Coffee. Yup, a coffee subscription service from…
Can we be honest about user data?
You know, the publishing business might not be doing itself any favours with its fervent opposition to the Apple subscription terms. The more posts like this that appear, the more our reputation diminishes: Put simply, publishers don’t want readers…
Some Afternoon Coffee Links
A couple of interesting links, that make an excellent *aperitif *to my last post: - [The Newsonomics of Apple/Press+/Google’s pay-for-all](http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/02/the-newsonomics-of-the-applegooglepress-pay-for-all/) – nice breakdown of the key issues around the Apple subs…
A Little Devil's Advocacy on iPad Subs
The whole discussion about the charging structure for subscriptions that Apple announced earlier in the week has left me rather bamboozled. It feels like rather a lot of people have missed something rather important about this iPad thingamajig. You see,…