The New York Times will begin charging for access to articles on its website in January, Bill Keller, executive editor of the newspaper, said at a dinner for the Foreign Press Association. " />
Generous donations from the Knight Foundation have helped the news site MinnPost.com to get its bearings. Now it is trying to achieve business viability.
"A broad definition would burst the content farm media bubble - there are far more news sites than consumers could possibly need - which has been growing the last few years. By the same token, such a move would leave legit news sites - such as the Times - riding higher in the rankings. Google could, in other words, kill off much of the competition that has vexed traditional media on the web in a single blow."
Amazon.com today unveiled its long-awaited color tablet, the Amazon Kindle Fire, at an event in New York that also saw the introduction of two new e-readers. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said the tablet, which ships Nov. 15, would retail for $199. "We're building premium products at non-premium prices," he said.
Really, this is breaking news to the industry? Kudos to the kid for telling it like it is, but are these companies really just hearing about this now? People don't like advertisements on a website constitutes breaking news? And people would prefer free stuff to stuff they have to pay for? Wait, why am I surprised that the heads of major media outlets are completely clueless as to what people actually want?
San Francisco -- Google Inc. is testing a new format that is supposed to make reading online stories as easy as flipping through a magazine, a shift that eventually could feed more advertising sales to revenue-starved publishers.
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) on Thursday called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to withdraw its recent guidelines regarding the commentary of bloggers and other social media opinion leaders, saying the new rules unconstitutionally penalize online media for practices traditional media have had in place for decades. Randall Rothenberg, IAB's chief executive, sent a letter to FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz saying the new rules will "muzzle" bloggers.
With ad revenue and audience on the decline, newspapers look to e-readers as a possible new revenue path. But early signs show that "win-win" deals between publishers and e-reader developers are both elusive and nonprofitable.
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