"revenue" entries
Downward Slide Continues for Newspaper Revenue
The news, for newspapers, is monotonically downwards. From the New York Times: On top of long-term changes in the industry, the weak economy is also hurting ad sales, especially in Florida and California, where the severe contraction of the housing markets has cut deeply into real estate ads. Executives at the Hearst Corporation say that one of their biggest…
PBS Online Videos Include Advertising
PBS is releasing shows on the video site Hulu, but incorporating advertising with a revenue sharing plan. The New York Times Bits blog discusses the move with Andrew Russell, senior vice president of PBS Ventures: PBS has moved online slowly, and right now it makes only a small fraction of its content available over the Internet. One reason is…
Author Notes Risks and Opportunities in Free Ebooks
A post by Steven Poole looks at the arguments and counter-arguments surrounding free digital books.
It's Time to Accept an Ambiguous Digital Fate
If ambiguity is the best we can expect in current digital publishing, then ambiguity is what we should work with.
News Roundup: Web Focus Yields Revenue for Tech Publisher, Out-of-Print Books Return Via POD, UK's First E-Reader, TorrentSpy Hit with $110+ Million Judgment
Tech Publisher Finds Path to Web Revenue Tech/trade publisher International Data Group (I.D.G.) rolled one of its largest magazines, InfoWorld, into a Web-only publication in April 2007. A profile of the company in the New York Times reveals encouraging first-year results from InfoWorld's digital transition: There were nervous months after the switch as the company awaited the reaction from advertisers…
Tech Publisher Finds Path to Web Revenue
Tech/trade publisher International Data Group (I.D.G.) rolled one of its largest magazines, InfoWorld, into a Web-only publication in April 2007. A profile of the company in the New York Times reveals encouraging first-year results from InfoWorld's digital transition: There were nervous months after the switch as the company awaited the reaction from advertisers and readers, but before long InfoWorld’s Web…
Report: Book Sales Up 7 Percent in Early '08
Association of American Publisher data shows a 7.2 percent jump in book sales for Jan. '08.
Roundup: New B&N Site Taps Digital Revenue, Magazine Goes High-End with Production
B&N’s new site, Quamut.com, is supported by display ads and pdf sales; Monocle magazine courts the high-end crowd with upscale production and high prices.