Comments on: It’s Official: News Corp.’s Paywalls Are a Bust

By: Why Google's One Pass Could Be a Ticket to Nowhere « The Joe Lake Blog The Joe Lake Blog

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 02:48:00 +0000

[...] Like that system, Google’s service is essentially designed to handle the payment processing for multiple subscription sites, so that users can theoretically sign up for dozens of them and not have to worry about being nickel and dimed by each one. There’s just one problem: there’s no sign that users have any interest in doing this — or at least, not in large enough numbers to make it work for anyone other than perhaps The Economist and the Wall Street Journal. Those who have put up new paywalls, including The Times of London, have seen the vast majority of their readers disappear into the wind. [...]

By: Why Google’s One Pass Could Be a Ticket to Nowhere: Tech News and Analysis «

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 01:03:58 +0000

By: Apple Gives Media Co’s a Carrot, But It’s Tied to a Big Stick: Tech News and Analysis «

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:33:07 +0000

[...] may have other options since it owns its own platform, but magazine and newspaper companies are desperate to find some way of charging their readers, and Apple provides the easiest method of doing that. But the walled [...]

By: Memo to Newspapers: Stop Thinking Like a Portal: Tech News and Analysis «

Memo to Newspapers: Stop Thinking Like a Portal: Tech News and Analysis « — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:46:03 +0000

[...] traditional media outlets seem determined to fight for, whether through copyright takedowns or by putting up paywalls, or by shipping iPad apps that don’t allow users to share or even link to content. Few [...]

By: 2011 Prediction: This Will Be the Year of Cord Cutting : Video «

2011 Prediction: This Will Be the Year of Cord Cutting : Video « — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:01:17 +0000

[...] DSL service to these very same customers without any further authentication needs. It’s like the newspaper pay wall saga all over again, and it will have the same consequences for networks operators as it had for print [...]

By: Rupert Murdoch — Still at War With the Internet: Tech News «

Rupert Murdoch — Still at War With the Internet: Tech News « — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:31:36 +0000

[...] thanks to Facebook. And a paywall attempt at News Corp. flagship The Times in London is either a gigantic failure or a small, qualified success, depending on whom you choose to [...]

By: Newsweek and the Gray Lady: Your Future Awaits: Tech News «

Newsweek and the Gray Lady: Your Future Awaits: Tech News « — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:30:27 +0000

[...] launch a paywall in an attempt to produce digital revenues and/or shore up its print circulation (lacklustre numbers from News Corp.’s recently launched paywall notwithstanding). The key question is: How much emphasis will be placed on the web as opposed to [...]

By: Apps Cannibalise Newspaper Sales: Surprise to Anyone?: Apple «

Apps Cannibalise Newspaper Sales: Surprise to Anyone?: Apple « — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:21:30 +0000

[...] to put a huge chunk of its online news content behind a paywall, an experiment which Mathew Ingram thinks is a total bust. Titles behind the paywall, including The Times of London, the Sunday Times and News of the World [...]

By: This Week in Review: Rupert’s online reader purge, election-night innovation, and ideas at ONA10 » Nieman Journalism Lab

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:01:58 +0000

[...] business future for the papers, as readers go digital,” and GigaOM’s Mathew Ingram argued that it’s time to officially deem the plans a bust. Former Guardian editor Emily Bell had the [...]

By: Cynthia Typaldos

Cynthia Typaldos — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:23:57 +0000

Ruth – I clicked on your name to see what job you have at The Times — and I got the paywall :-( Not even your bios are visible.