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micro-subscription
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Iain Williamson on 03 Mar 09A useful modern media term for our future Y11 Media Studies students to learn, as WJEC concentrate on the music industry for the next 3 years.
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receiving extra content over an extended period of time
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timeliness and exclusive
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A very interesting article re: to the idea of micro-subscription, a form of media synergy which connects straight into i-tunes. This example relates to Depeche Mode and their forthcoming album.
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in relation to the highlighted sections of this article there are solutions already being explored by many vendors, that may possibly lead to their redundancies. For example: i use an app on my iphone by the New York Times that allows me to view all their latest articles, blogs and all that jazz. it looks good, feels good and is easy to use. the point being that with the internet people no longer want to wait till tomorrow for news, they want it today (the cliche'd "tomorrows news today" is now true!) so income news paper websites. the problem i'd say for the newspapers themselves is that the majority of them get their articles from companies such as Reuters, AFP, AP and so on, who all have websites of their own with RSS feeds. could there be a turning point in the near future where people start making these vendors their first stops for News (not editorials or analysis, the Economist still has a place in the world, so does my favourite magazine of all time: Monocle (by: Tyler Brule) absoloutely awesome and i recommend you buy the latest issue and give it a spin, impressive journalism! - any bookshop will sell it) or maybe people still want an editor to oversee and decide for them which articles are important?