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Amit Kelkar

Income Models for Supporting Open Access (SPARC) - 1 views

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    Thanks Sam Oazy for sending these interesting income models for academic publishing.
anonymous

Facebook Moves to Improve Privacy and Transparency - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Facebook is amending its business model and software to enhance the regulatory framework for its users, as the debate regarding privacy is central to the companies brand image.
anonymous

Rupert Murdoch In Beijing: 'The Philistine Phase Of The Digital Age Is Almost Over' | p... - 0 views

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    Rupert Murdoch in China, arguing for paid content, and greater freedom for the press. 'The challenge of fusing past and present is real for media companies, and for China. Our aim must be to enhance the lives of our customers and citizens, and yet we find ourselves in the midst of an information revolution that is both exciting and unsettling. It is a digital revolution turning traditional business models upside down … traversing geographic, industrial, and media boundaries … and creating a new source of wealth, material and social, around the world.'
anonymous

Saatchi & Saatchi CEO calls for agency/publisher collaboration | News | New Media Age - 0 views

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    Saatchi and Saatchi suggest that the changes brought about by technology and the 'new' business model is merely structured to serve "the twin gods of the publishing world", namely advertisers and consumers, and as a result traditional 'media' are going to lose out.
yunju wang

A New Horizon for the News - The New York Review of Books - 0 views

shared by yunju wang on 12 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Still, the Times seems likely to attract many readers even after it begins charging for content.
  • Last year, circulation dropped on average by 4.6 percent on weekdays and 4.8 percent on Sundays. Earlier this year, Detroit's two daily papers reduced home delivery to three days a week, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ended its print edition, and the Rocky Mountain News shut down altogether. This summer, The Boston Globe, which is losing more than $50 million a year, survived only by giving in to the draconian cutbacks demanded by its owner, the New York Times Company, while the Times itself, weighed down by the Globe, had to take out a $250 million loan from Carlos Slim Helú, Mexico's richest man, at a junk-bond-level interest rate of 14 percent a year.
  • The traditional three staples of newspaper advertising—automotive, employment, and real estate—have all drastically declined, thanks to Craigslist, eBay, the travails of Detroit, and the consolidation of department stores (resulting in fewer retail ad pages). Meanwhile, the steady expansion of space on the Internet has caused online ad rates to crash, and these are not expected to recover even when the economy as a whole does.
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  • When it comes to mismanagement, then, the newspaper business seems in a class with Detroit. Unlike GM, though, newspapers offer a product that consumers still value. But how to cash in on it? As the old business models fade, new ones are urgently being tested. Surveying the blackened landscape, I searched for new buds—and stumbled upon something much larger.
  • it seems overwhelmed by gadgets and gizmos, features and fluff. Technologically in a class by itself, the paper has seemed less adept at grasping the Web's potential to spotlight issues and stir debate. This summer, for instance, the blogosphere lit up over "The Great American Bubble Machine," Matt Taibbi's provocative Rolling Stone article about the political and financial power of Goldman Sachs.
  • building sufficient Web traffic to attract advertisers.
Adriana Delgado

Ping - How High Will Real-Time Search Fly? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Real-time search and the quest for profits.
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