The Federal Communications Commission will rule that Comcast violated federal policy by deliberately preventing some customers from sharing videos online via file-sharing services. While Comcast acknowledges that it slowed some traffic, it claims it was necessary to prevent a few heavy users from overburdening the network. The decision is likely to go to court sometime [...]
Since the news of Brett Favre’s unretirement, the Green Bay Press-Gazette has seen a boost in web traffic, reader comments, and single-copy sales, according to the paper. However, the paper’s sales of retirement-related merchandise such as reprints of a special edition from the day he announced his retirement, copies of editions marking high-points in his [...]
Hearst Magazines announced that it will shutter Quick & Simple magazine effective with the July 29th issue that is currently on newsstands. The company will instead shift its focus to the 300,000-circulation magazine’s “newly enhanced Web site.” A representative for Hearst said that the company was still “committed to introducing and acquiring print titles, investing [...]
The Washington Post plans on launching a new unit that will be responsible for creating and managing a series of Web-based magazines. The unit is called The Slate Group and hopes to develop its own audience through these web magazines and eventually move into other forms of media either on its own or through acquisitions. [...]
The device will cost $399, and will download content using the wireless service EVDO, which is offered by some cellular phone carriers. New editions and best-selling books will cost $9.99. Magazines subscriptions will cost between $1.25 and $3.49 a month, newspapers between $5.99 and $14.99. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos pitches [...]
Women’s reading habits haven’t changed so dramatically. At UK-based Emap, women’s titles Closer, Grazia and Heat all turned in strong revenue performances in the first half of the year, but their contributions were undermined by slumping men’s titles, resulting in a 6 percent drop in magazine revenue. Publishers Axel Springer in Germany Lagardere of France have observed [...]
Fast on the heels of re-designs to its magazine and website, NewsWeek plans to introduce a weekly, web-based show about politics — leveraging their considerable pool of talking-head talent. Increased emphasis online comes at the end of a difficult year for the printed magazine. Ad sales were down in the first three quarters by 8.5% and newsstand [...]
…And hoping to charge up to $9.99 a month for access to them. The new service, launched today, may represent the comic industry’s boldest web play to date. It was taken, according to one Marvel exec, in recognition that kids just aren’t exposed ot that spinning rack of comics in the five-and-dime [...]
In the second and third quarters, the growth of online advertising at Gannett, Tribune, E.W. Scripps and other major newspaper companies slowed dramatically. Poynter Online (Nov. 12, 2007)