Visitors to Fortune.com noticed something new over the past few weeks: a requirement to enter an email address in order to access content. “You’re paying for it with your email address in a sense,” says Fortune's chief marketing officer, Michael Joseloff. “We have done a lot of research into what will be most valuable for our audiences, and this is a chance to test some of that in advance of our official paywall, which we will put up in early March.” While the site will still offer some content for free, it will also create three tiers of paid content, priced at $5 per month (or $49 per year), $11 per month (or $99 per year) and $22 per month (or $199 per year). The paywall is a new initiative at the now-independent magazine, which was sold by Meredith Corp. to Thai-based businessman Chatchaval Jiaravanon for $150 million late in 2018. (Time Inc., which had published Fortune for decades, was itself acquired by Meredith earlier that year.) “We’ve always been part of larger-scaled media organizations,” Joseloff says. “This gave us a chance to think about what’s truly the best model to serve our customers and deliver the right value to them.” Fortune isn’t the only publisher to see paywalls as one way to continue moving away from an over-reliance on advertising and embrace the subscription business model. Just this month, Texas Monthly and The New Republic launched metered paywalls of their own. Achieving the necessary scale The industry has had a love-hate relationship... Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-02-25 03:46:10 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#daily beast
#daily life
#vox media
#consumer revenue
#real love
#listening sessions
#print publication
Google and major book publishers have settled a lengthy legal battle over digital copyrights, but a bigger dispute still looms with thousands of authors who allege that Google is illegally profiting from their works. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2012-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Publishers can now decide whether Google can digitize out-of-print books still protected by copyright, but does not settle the issue of individual author rights. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Headline has acquired the world rights in Poirot and Me by actor David Suchet, writing with... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#world rights
The Association of American Publishers has settled a long-running copyright infringement case with Google Inc., though the issue of whether Google had the right to digitally reproduce books in copyright is still being hashed out in court. Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2012-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#american publishers
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Google today announced an agreement that marks the end of nearly seven years of litigation, kicked off in 2005, when five members of the organization filed an infringement suit against the online giant. The deal helps bring digitized books and... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#online giant
#online library
#digital copy
#pearson education
#simon schuster
Penguin Children's has snapped up rights to The Breathing series by self-published author... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#self-published author
#penguin children
Publishers should be the "drivers‚" of multimedia brand development, undertaking... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Bestselling author JK Rowling spoke for the first time in public last night about her new novel The Casual Vacancy, which signals the coming of age of the Harry Potter generation. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2012-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#casual vacancy
Renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe publishes his long-awaited memoir, There Was a Country, about the brutal three-year Biafran war. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2012-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
The Albuquerque Publishing Company – the advertising sales, production and distribution agent for New Mexico’s largest and most read newspaper, the Albuquerque Journal – is live with Atex Advertising. The Atex syst ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#advertising sales
Morris Publishing Group is establishing a partnership with the local digital marketing team of magazine and newspaper publishing firm Hearst. Morris announced today that it reached an agreement with LocalEdge, a Hearst Media Services company, to re ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Square Peg has acquired a cookery book which explores the history and traditions of sweets, to be... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#square peg
#cookery book
Penguin is understood to have begun a review of its travel division, with staff informed today (... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#travel publishing
#travel division
Publishers say the plan to abolish competing exam boards as GCSEs are scrapped in favour of new... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Black Dog Publishing is kicking off a new series in association with London Underground's... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#black dog
#london underground
Apple hasn’t promoted the tablet computer in MPA member magazines since summer 2011. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2012-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#magazine publishers
#unrequited love
#tablet computer
Apple and four major ebook publishers have offered retailers such as Amazon.com the option to set their own prices for ebooks for the next two years in a bid to end an antitrust investigation in the European Union. The European Commission launched the investigation into allegations of cartel... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2012-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#increased competition
#proposed remedies
#interested parties
#provide feedback
The European Commission has begun the process of dismantling the agency model after finding... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#agency model
#european commission
If you've been looking for a way to make publishing for the iPad much easier and erase the coding headaches, Adobe is looking to oblige. The software company has announced that its Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) Single Edition is now part of the Creative Cloud software collection. Not familiar... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#software company
#make publishing
#finishing touches
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Sept. 19, 2012 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the latest addition to Adobe® Creative Cloud™ — Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS), Single Edition. DPS, Si ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#san jose
#latest addition