Netflix Really, Really Doesn’t Want Your DVD Money
"Old fogey discs" are a billion-dollar business for Reed Hastings and company. But if you want to see how badly Netflix wants out, go ahead and try to give someone a DVD gift subscription today.
Yikes! The Digital Music Business Is Still Stuck in 2005.
Spotify may be the future. But right now the industry is dominated by iTunes and a phone fad most of you forgot about years ago.
Hawaiian punch! A paywall showdown in Honolulu
It looks like Honolulu just turned into a two-paywall town. Last week, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser began charging for online content. And it’s a hard wall, too: no monthly allowance for stories like, say, The New York Times offers (though breaking news, AP stories, blogs, photos, weather, traffic, and obits will remain free). Combine this with...
Ars Technica tries a new way to monetize a much-anticipated article with a Kindle ebook for Mac fans
It by now nearly qualifies as an ancient ritual in the tech world: Apple releases a new version of Mac OS X, and Ars Technica's John Siracusa delivers a comprehensive, almost scriptural, review of it. A Siracusa review is meticulous, esoteric, thoughtful — and long. His appraisal of OS X 10.7 "Lion," published Wednesday, weighs in...
New York Times Ad Dollars Still Shrinking, but Digital Subscriptions Might Be Working
The paper says its Web pay wall strategy appears to be working, as digital subscribers grew to more than 200,000 and cancelled out a drop in print subscriptions.
Time Magazine Rolls Out Print/Digital Subscriptions — And Puts Up Another Web Pay Wall
Time magazine is making it easier for readers to subscribe to its digital and print editions. And harder for non-subscribers to read the magazine on the Web.
Netflix Tells Its Customers to Ditch Their DVDs or Pay Up
Reed Hastings and company see themselves as Web video guys, not discs-in-the-mail guys. Now they're making it clearer than ever, with a 60 percent price hike for customers who want both.
Hulu Plays Along With Apple’s New Rules. Who’s Next?
Apple's new subscription rules mean publishers like Hulu have a choice: Give Apple 30 percent of new sales, or make it less easy for users to buy your content. Hulu went for option B. Now let's see what Netflix, Rhapsody and Amazon do.
Mediatwits #10: Apple Backpedals on iPad Subs; GWU Study on Local News
Welcome to the tenth episode of "The Mediatwits," the weekly audio podcast from MediaShift. The co-hosts are MediaShift's Mark Glaser and Dorian Benkoil, filling in for Rafat Ali. This week's show looks at the changes in Apple's subscrip...
