Tag: NEWSPAPERS

After much fanfare and some delays, Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. have launched The Daily, the first "iPad newspaper." The Daily is the first app to take advantage of a new subscription model in Apple's App Store, with each edition automatically pushed to subscribers as soon as it comes out. The low weekly 99 cents price should convince many skeptics to give The Daily a trial run, but what will ...

Well, it's no Amazon Library, but the Kindle e-book platform will soon let users lend books to one another for a limited amount of time. You'll be able to loan out a book for up to 14 days at a time, and you won't be able to read the book while a friend is borrowing it. Not all books will support lending, though. Allowing or blocking lending will be up to the publishers and other ...

Apple's iPad might become the white knight the ailing newspaper publishing industry has been looking for. Steve Jobs and co. are reportedly nearing the announcement of newspaper subscription plans on the iPad, bringing your daily paper to the growing tablet market. The dealbreaker, up until now, has been your personal data, which newspapers need to sell ads. Apple didn't want to give up ...

For well over a century, readers were willing to pay to have newspapers delivered to their homes. A lot of people still do, but not enough to keep the newspaper industry afloat in the face of declining ad revenue. And few traditional newspapers (the kind with huge staffs of reporters, editors, fact checkers, and so on), have figured out how to make enough money from online advertising to turn a ...

TimesReader is a desktop application for reading the New York Times without a web browser. While this may not sound like a service you need, since you can read most Times articles online, the latest version of TimesReader provides a pretty compelling interface for reading the paper. TimesReader 2.0 also happens to be built on Adobe AIR, which mean that unlike earlier versions of the program, it ...

That was fast! As soon as rumors started about a new, larger Kindle due from Amazon this week, the device appeared for pre-order on Amazon's front page. The Kindle DX has a 9.7" display that makes it suitable for reading PDFs and websites in their original layouts. As we predicted, Amazon is also pushing the DX as the ideal reader for newspapers and magazines. The DX's screen orientation ...

Rumors have been floating around this week about a new, large-screen version of Amazon's Kindle eBook reader. The New York Times seemingly confirmed that the device is for real, and it could be released "as early as this week," according to their industry sources. The Times pieces focuses, not surprisingly, on the larger Kindle as a platform for newspapers and magazines, whose pages didn't quite ...

According to a new report from the Newspaper Association of America, online readership for newspaper web sites grew by more than 3.6 million in 2007, up 6 percent from 2006. So, in spite of traditional newspaper sales drying up, the newspaper companies are finding ways to grow their readership. At this point, you might be asking, "what's a newspaper?" It's that simple collection of ink on thin ...

The New York Times and other papers are facing a conundrum. On the one hand, people are canceling their paper subscriptions left and right. That's largely because they can get the news online for free. And when papers like the Times try to charge people for access to web content many readers just look elsewhere for their news. Enter the brave new world of online advertising. Newspapers generally ...

Yahoo! is following Google's lead, and entering into traditional media, specifically newspapers. Yahoo! is teaming up with seven US newspaper publishers that own 170 daily newspapers to deliver local advertising and search services to online readers. The deal allows any newspaper advertiser that lists jobs in print to also have the ability to post on Yahoo!'s HotJobs. The newspapers' sites will ...

Google has made it in the online advertising market, so what about offline? Google has tested the waters with newspaper ads and magazine ads, and now they are ready to go full force by allowing bidding on over 50 major newspaper spots across the US. Google Print Ads is scheduled to officially launch this week, allowing advertisers to place bids in the newspapers. The lists of the newspapers that ...