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29 Oct 09

Newspapers Raise Prices to Fight Falling Circulation

Some newspapers are increasing their revenue by raising prices for their papers, even as their circulation numbers shrink.

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Peter Kafka All Things Digital circulation newspaper business models newspapers revenue business prices

21 Oct 09

4 things for media to sell in the world of free

Thoughts from a Swedish journalist about how to make money in the broken news industry.

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Mikael Zackrisson revenue Chris Anderson free

newspapers and magazines must stop seeing themselves as organisations owning information or by themsselves gathering information, information they then distribute to their readers. Instead we must see ourselves as facilitators who identify important areas and trends and which we then, together with our readers, explore.

12 Apr 09

Google in the middle

Nicholas Carr argues that news sources must take control of their content (away from Google) and do more to cut down on syndication -- create scarcity to boost content.

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middleman Google Nicholas Carr business scarcity syndication revenue

We were misinformed. The Web didn't kill mediators. It made them stronger. The way a company makes big money on the Web is by skimming little bits of money off a huge number of transactions, with each click counting as a transaction. (Think trillions of transactions.) The reality of the web is hypermediation, and Google, with its search and search-ad monopolies, is the largest hypermediator.
- The idea that the Web would remove middlemen was misguided. It was only an apparent removal of middlemen. Connecting the buyers and sellers or readers and writers always required a lot of technology. But when the Internet was young, the people who made that technology and provided that connection were smaller, poorer players.
  
  Now that the techies have become rich, we see them. We notice the middlemen, unlike back then. - on 2009-04-12
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- When it comes to Google and other aggregators, newspapers face a sort of prisoners' dilemma. If one of them escapes, their competitors will pick up the traffic they lose. But if all of them stay, none of them will ever get enough traffic to make sufficient money. So they all stay in the prison, occasionally yelling insults at their jailer through the bars on the door.
- For Google, any concentration of traffic at content sites is anathema; it would represent a shift of power from the middleman to the supplier. Google wants to keep that traffic fragmented. The suppliers of news have precisely the opposite goal.
- I don't mean preventing bloggers from posting fair-use snippets of articles. I mean curbing the rampant syndication, authorized or not, of full-text articles. Syndication makes sense when articles remain on the paper they were printed on. It doesn't make sense when articles float freely across the global web.

11 Apr 09

The speech the NAA should hear

In anticipation of Google CEO Eric Schmidt's speech to the Newspaper Association of America, Jeff Jarvis presents this speech, which he wishes the NAA membership would hear instead.

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Newspaper Association of America Jeff Jarvis Eric Schmidt Google advertising business revenue entitlement