What does publishing do now? – Building Online Communities

It’s really not the greatest of times to be working with or associated with the printed press. With falling readership, and the subsequent fall in advertising revenues coupled with the emergence of online channels; the question on most people’s minds is what to do next?
The news worsens with a study by the Pew Research [...]

Marie Claire strikes MSN content partnership

Marie Claire’s editorial content is to appear for the first time on Microsoft’s portal MSN as part of a new partnership agreement.

Content from IPC’s upmarket women’s glossy magazine website will feature in MSN’s Life and Style channel over the next few months. Marie Claire-branded sections will include beauty, fashion and news.
Visitors will also find Marie [...]

Digital comics go live on PSP

Sony’s Digital comics service has gone live on the PSP in both the US and Europe.
The service offers over 550 comics to download, from publishers such as Marvel, iVerse Media, IDW Publishing, Disney and 2000AD.
As well as a handful of free samples, prices range from GBP 1.19 / 99 cents and upwards, with content promised [...]

Financial freesheet City A.M. to relaunch website

The relaunched website will gain access to more news stories and resources under a deal with online financial services company Interactive Investor.
The deal will see Interactive Investor managing City A.M.’s website. The two companies, with a total pool of 36 journalists, will share news and resources. Their combined stories will also be published on the [...]

How Publishing is going Mobile

By Andrew Horsfall,
Marketing Assistant
at fhios.
With content currently being provided free online and free newspapers closing there is a crisis affecting the publishing sector, with many asking the question – just how are publishers going to recover from significant losses and reductions in advertising revenue?
One possible answer to that question has been proposed by Rupert [...]

Google offers a new 5-a-day

Google is changing its ‘First Click Free’ programme so that readers will not be able to look at more than 5 pages in one day via its search engine.
The programme lets readers get around paying subscriptions or registration to news sites by accessing news articles through Google.
The move means users who now click on more [...]

Online readers of UK newspapers down in August

British newspapers lost unique viewers online during the typically quiet month of August, but MailOnline retained its position as market-leader for the third month running in ABCe figures.
Unique users accessing MailOnline, which includes content from the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, dropped 4% month on month to 28.7m unique users. This equated to a [...]

Spectator magazine becomes iPhone app

The Spectator now has a branded App in the iTunes App Store. This App gives users access to the complete magazine on the iPhone. The App is launched at 99c (59p, or €0.79). This buys a 7 day subscription to the magazine, and provides access to over 200 back issues. When [...]

Americans boost UK news sites

New data has shown that US visitors accounted for 54% of the traffic growth for UK news websites in 2009.
The data from Hitwise found that American households earning over $150,000 are more likely to visit British news websites and that American households earning less than $30,000 are the second most likely.
Hitwise found that during August [...]

Who will pay for online content?

By Andrew Horsfall,
Marketing Assistant
at fhios.
According to Harris Interactive not many! A report form Harris Interactive reveals that as much as 75% of on-line users of news readers would switch to an alternative free source of news if their regular news site charged for access to content.
These results do not make good reading for on-line [...]