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Aegis Media, the media buying and marketing division of Aegis Group, is beefing up its mobile assets and activity: it is taking an undisclos……
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This is far from closure, but it is possibly a step in the right direction. News Corp.'s CEO, Rupert Murdoch, has issued an apology that wil……
Read MorePublisher Penguin Waddles Into Social Media Experiment With Peer Index
A little social media experiment is underway at the publishers Hamish Hamilton/Penguin UK: the publisher has tied up with the social media s……
Read MoreThe ePresse Digital Kiosk: First Lessons
On June 30th, the French consortium ePresse opened its digital kiosk. Six months of hard work for a very small team (the ePresse consortium……
Read MoreAustralian Booksellers Association Wary Of Pearson REDGroup Deal
A day after Pearson (NYSE: PSO) Australia announced plans to buy REDGroup's online business--including Borders Australia's website and the w……
Read MoreEconomist Group Defies Gloomy Media Trend With Upbeat Results
Almost all British-based newspaper and magazine publishers are contemplating losses or declining profits. But the Economist group, as it doe……
Read MoreWhat Amazon Should Do With Its Kindle iPad App
This week, the iPad app world is frantically sorting through some recent changes in its environment. Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has quietly altered……
Read MoreInterview: Financial Times’ Grimshaw: ‘App Stores Are Not A Panacea’
Anything an iOS app can do, the web can do better, Rob Grimshaw, The Financial Times' online managing director, told paidContent:UK, after l……
Read MoreCan the FT help publishers quit their Apple addiction?
The Financial Times has struck out on its own against Apple, urging subscribers to switch away from iTunes in favor of a dedicated HTML5 app. It helps the venerable newspaper break free of Steve Jobs’s iron grip — but will others follow suit?…
Read MoreThe FT Is Sticking It To Apple With A New Web-Based iPad App
With a few weeks to go before Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) starts taking a 30 percent cut of in-app tablet subscription transactions, The Financial Ti……
Read MoreLook Out, Pearson; Murdoch Is Serious About Online Education
At the eG8 forum in Paris, where a range of tech execs shared mostly predictable and prosaic views on Tuesday, the most unlikely spectacle w……
Read MoreFT Still Negotiating With Apple On iPad Subscriptions
With a month to go until publishers must either fall in with Apple's new in-app purchasing terms or quit iOS in June, The Financial Times is……
Read MorePearson Buying Schoolnet For $230 Million
Pearson (NYSE: PSO), the owner of the Financial Times and book publisher Penguin, has acquired education technology company Schoolnet.…
Read MoreFinancial Times Says Digital Subscriptions Up 8 Percent So Far This Year
The ranks of the Financial Times' digital subscribers continues to rise: The newspaper says it now has 224,000 paid digital subscribers, up……
Read MoreIndustry Moves: AppNexus, Jumptap; Financial Times, Future US
-- AppNexus: Nielsen's audience head Ari Paparo is joining real-time ad platform AppNexus as product SVP. -- Jumptap: Regina Sebring has s……
Read MoreMcGraw-Hill And Pearson Back iPad Textbook Startup Inkling
Top education publishers McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) and Pearson (NYSE: PSO) have invested in Inkling, a startup that is adding uber-interactive……
Read More@ pC2011 Video: Interview With FT.com MD Rob Grimshaw
Financial Times online MD Rob Grimshaw, who debated on our paidContent 2011 conference panel in New York on Thursday, caught up with me back……
Read More@ pC2011: Paywalls And Their Discontents
As the NYTimes.com prepares to launch its metered pay model any day now, the topic of paywalls is something every media organization is expl……
Read MoreSir Martin Sorrell: Apple iPad Won’t Save Us
We didn't need Sir Martin Sorrell telling us that the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad will not be the savior of the beleaguered publishing industry,……
Read MoreDigital Growth Fuelled FT, Pearson Profit In 2010
Pearson's digital revenue grew 24 percent to £1.6 ($2.57) billion through 2010, including... -- FT paid digital subs:Â +50 percent to 20……
Read MoreThe 10-Year View: UK Magazine Sales Hit Another Low
*ABC* data is out today for UK autumn and winter magazine sales. The industry's Periodical Publishers' Association (PPA) optimistically sees……
Read MoreApple Subs: Publishers Seek Clarity, FT Concerned, Some Sign Up
The response from many publishers to Apple's subscription announcement has been a shellshocked "errrr..." - many are confused exactly how th……
Read More@ MWC: Big Media Is On The Fence Over New In-App Charges
While Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) are battling it out to woo publishers with their in-app payment services, I asked major con……
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