Digital Content & Paywalls: How John Paton Has It Right…And Wrong

Date: February 22, 2012

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There’s been a lot of buzz lately about John Paton, the “old media” CEO of MediaNews Group who’s been giving fiery speeches of late about “stacking digital dimes against print dollars.” Most recently, he gave his usual stump speech, but added a commentary on getting rid of “crappy newspaper executives,” which has some good — [...]

Have You Got Your .tv URL Yet?

Date: February 21, 2012

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Last week, professional organizer and spokesperson Lorie Marrero gave a great Webinar on how membership and subscription sites can get more media attention — without being or employing celebrities.
One of the tips she gave was to buy the .tv URL for your site as soon as possible. This will allow you to create a dedicated [...]

Check Out the U.K.’s Publishing Expo for Multi-Platform Ideas

Date: February 20, 2012

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For our Paywall Times readers across the pond (or any Yankees visiting the Queen), we thought you might want to know about a great industry event taking place February 28-29 in London.
Publishing Expo is the U.K.’s “only mutli-platform publishing show” and has a variety of talks and seminars of interest to digital content creators and [...]

Piano Media’s National Paywall: Torch-bearer or Red Herring?

Date: February 17, 2012

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If you haven’t already heard, the country of Slovakia has a national paywall. And it’s defying expectations.
Piano Media, headed by Tomas Bella, has created a one-access paywall for nine of the country’s largest publishers, giving subscribers access to 34 different websites. It’s the cable TV-style of payment that I’ve been evangelizing for a while now.
There [...]

Inkling Habitat Competes With Apple iBooks by Wooing Publishers

Date: February 16, 2012

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For amateur and self-employed publishers, Apple iBooks may be your digital publishing platform of choice, but publishers producing ebooks at scale seem to be excited about Inkling Habitat, a new cloud-based publishing platform.
Inkling Habitat lets users incorporate HD video, interactive features and 3D content through its free program. Users are then required to make the [...]