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Bill Kuykendall

Survey Finds Slack Standards at Magazine Web Sites - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Only a third of the Web sites reported making a profit.
  • More than half the magazines put their entire print editions online free. Four percent put all or almost all print content behind a paywall, and 10 percent put some of it behind a paywall. The rest post only some of their print output online, but all of it free.
  • About 49 percent of unprofitable Web sites gave away all of their content, and 65 percent of profitable Web sites did the same.
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  • “The conventional wisdom is that you have to be there first in order to get traffic, and you need traffic in order to sell ads, therefore you do not have time to do conventional copy-editing and fact-checking.”
  • More than 40 percent of the sites depended on staff members to approve comments at their discretion, while just over 10 percent did not moderate comments at all. A slightly larger percentage used an automatic system to filter for comments that included offensive words or spam.
Bill Kuykendall

In-App Sales and iTablet: The Killer Combo to Save Publishing? | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 1 views

  • Newspapers and magazines are reportedly in talks with Apple about repurposing their content onto a “new device,” presumably the rumored touchscreen tablet Apple will deliver in early 2010. Numerous reports suggest an Apple tablet would have a strong focus on redefining print media. Enabling in-app commerce through free apps was a crucial move to help make this goal a reality.
Bill Kuykendall

Advertising - With Ads, Music Downloads Sing a New Tune - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    FreeAllMusic.com will allow free music downloads to those who opt to view an online advertisement
Bill Kuykendall

Barnes and Noble to Introduce e-Reader, the Nook - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Kindle competitor offers 500,000 free Google Books
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