E-books: Subscriptions, Paywalls

early Internet experiments perhaps led to ongoing reader expectations of free information
difficult to introduce paywalls and digital subcriptions later
decline of advertising due to CraigsList etc.
some publishers offer free digital access with paid print subscription
bundling of multiple titles; free eReader?
some news sites offer free access via search engines; some block search engines
Wikipedia: paywall
The Atlantic Will Experiment With Online Pay Models In 2013 1/3/2013
NYT Paywall Working Better Than People Expected, But That Doesn't Mean It's Working 12/26/2012
The Wall Street Journal Signs Up for Apple's Subscription Service 12/21/2012
The New York Times Paywall Is Working Better Than Anyone Had Guessed 12/20/2012
Pay Wall Push: Why Newspapers Are Hopping Over the Picket Fence 12/7/2012
Washington Post, Daily Beast Jumping On The Paywall Bandwagon. Too Late? 12/7/2012
Why does the paywall debate always have to become a religious war? 12/4/2012
These Numbers Show Why The New York Times Is Firing More Journalists 12/3/2012
Digital Subs Rising, The Economist Unbundles Tablet Editions From Print 11/30/2012
Conde Nast's Digital Push 11/15/2012
LeKiosk Books Another $7.1M For Its Online Store, As It Strives To Become The 'Spotify Of Magazines' 11/13/2012
New York Times will drop its paywall for the third time 11/5/2012
How to get your readers to love paywalls plead the threat of bankruptcy; 10/31/2012
Telegraph launches limited paywall 11/1/2012
Online paid-content market poses threat to traditional advertising 11/1/2012
New York Times suspends paywall for Hurricane Sandy 10/28/2012
Eric Schmidt is headed to Paris to head off French proposal to charge Google for linking Google responded by threatening to remove all French news sites from its index; 10/25/2012
How one geek just outdid the entire publishing industry "The Magazine"; 10/25/2012
Digital subscriptions up 11 percent at New York Times company, but revenue slips 10/25/2012
Globe and Mail Publisher Phillip Crawley on the paper?s paywall plans 10/16/2012
Another Failed Paywall Bites The Dust; Daily Variety Goes Free 10/15/2012
Gannett announces rise in circulation revenue, driven by paywalls 10/15/2012
Murdoch?s Times unblocks search engines to seek new subscribers 9/26/2012
The Return Of Dumb Ideas: A Broadband Tax To Save Failing Newspapers UK ?2 tax; 9/24/2012
USA Today unveils page-turning digital revamp digital content still free-of-charge; 9/13/2012
Does Setting Up A Paywall Suddenly Make Your Readers Erudite & Intellectual vs. Crass & Tacky? 8/29/2012
NYTimes Now Makes More Money From Readers Than From Advertisers... But Mostly Because Advertisers Are Fleeing 7/31/2012
The Daily Lays Off a Third of Its Staff News Corp on iPad; 7/31/2012
New York Times? circulation revenue lags growth in digital subscriptions 7/27/2012
Financial Times: Our Digital Subscribers Now Outnumber Print, And Digital Is Half Of The FT?s Revenue 7/27/2012
Buffett Says Free News Unsustainable, May Add More Papers 5/24/2012
New York Times sees higher circulation numbers, digital paywall smiles knowingly 5/1/2012
Wall Street Journal remains No. 1 US newspaper more readers purchased digital subscriptions; 5/1/2012
Farewell, App Store? Netizine Turns Magazines Into Social Networks, Runs On HTML5 more social than FlipBoard; 4/11/2012
Digital magazine sales double in 2011; print still dominates 3/29/2012
New York Times Further Restricts Free Access 3/20/2012
The Search for a New Business Model: How Newspapers are Faring Trying to Build Digital Revenue; 3/5/2012
Dear Big Newspapers: Keep Putting Up Silly Paywalls And Clear The Internet Field For Us 'Newcomers' (Gannett; LA Times); 3/2/2012
WSJ Pulls Back On What Google Searchers Can Read For Free 2/25/2012
Newsstand in iOS 5 Fueling Growth of New Magazine Subscriptions 12/23/2011
A Shopper?s Companion, Still Going Strong (after 75 years, Consumer Reports get more revenue from digital subscriptions than from print -- without losing print subscribers); 12/11/2011
Hearst's Carey talks digital (400,000 e-subscriptions); 12/1/2011
How Google is Quietly Experimenting in New Ways for Readers to Access Publishers' Content ("survey wall"); 10/31/2011
Newsstand app brings Cond? Nast 268% boom in subscription sales on iPad 10/26/2011
New York Times Paywall Helps it Turn a Profit (Q3 2011) 10/20/2011
Planning a paywall? Maybe you should sell some e-books instead 10/11/2011
Why Fortune?s Apple Story is AWOL From The Web ? And Why You Can Buy It On Amazon 5/9/2011
How to Work Around the New York Times? 20-Article-per-Month Paywall 3/28/2011
The Easiest Way to Cheat the New York Times Paywall Still Works3/28/2011
Google's First Click Free program

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