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Sail racing ‘app mag’ enters unchartered waters
Sail racing is possibly the first ‘back bedroom’ iPad magazine to launch – and to judge by the initial response, it looks set to blaze a trail. Established and self-financed by Justin Chisholm for ‘around £10,000’, its target was to reach 10,000 views and downloads by the first week in February. It passed that milestone [...] -
App in the charts
News International executives have long thought that iPad apps were the key to making their paywall a success. The launch of The Sunday Times app yesterday, was then a pivotal day in the life of the pay-per-view experiment. A memo to staff today announced that “The Sunday Times app has leapt to No 1 within 24 [...] -
Poor renewals could sink NI paywall
Detailed analysis of News International’s pay-to-view business suggests that the company’s inability to attract sufficient customers that renew could be the paywall’s death knell. The research, by arch rival The Guardian, is reported in Press Gazette. -
NI Paywall figures ahead of internal estimates
Research by Oliver and Ohlbaum Associates suggests that The Times has converted 14% of its online audience to paywall subscribers of some kind – reports journalism.co.uk. The findings were presented to an audience that included News International’s director of strategy and product development Dominic Young, who, in responding, did not contradict the figures. Little wonder. [...] -
Picking through the paywall figures
Much of the reaction to News International’s paywall figures announcement have been to try and crunch into the figures and find some greater truth. Given the opacity of the figures, this is understandable. Organgrinder and Paidcontent, are particularly worth looking up. Getting to the bigger picture of News International’s ambitions, however, is something at which [...] -
Washington Post’s ex editor reflects on new digital age
An interesting discussion on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme between Len Downie, the former editor of the Washington Post and Lionel Barber of the Financial Times on the future of newspapers. Barber says that the FT has sold 400,000 of its iPhone apps and that FT subscriptions are up by 10% (over a non-specified period), [...]