New York Times article gives update on Google (and Amazon) plans to develop their relationhip with publishers and libraries to provide web users with access to indexes, catalogues and potentially excerpts from current and historical material.
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New Media Guardian reports that online advertising has hit 2% of total spend. This comes in a report from PriceWaterHouse Coopers for the IAB.
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Interesting from AME Info article on what publishers actually mean when they say they are making money from selling content online.
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Another good article the Onine Journalism Review on “Moving Online into the Newsroom“.
To the leaders of these organizations, the writing is on the wall: Print circulation is down, online use is up. Newspaper readers are going online for their news, and often they’re going to portals like Yahoo — not to their local paper — for updates.
Rusty Coats, director of new media at MORI Research, hits the nail on the head with:
Papers everywhere have been grappling for years with the fact that — for an ever-growing part of the population — digital media just works better than analog media, Coats said.”Readership studies show “it’s not startribune.com that’s replacing the Star Tribune. It is online as a medium that is replacing print as a medium for some people,” he said.
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Published a month ago in the Online Journalism Review a good item covering the transition of the Albuquerque Journals from free to fee – including a 10 step programme for getting it right. Interesting dialogue on whether it’s easier for publishers who provide local news in remote areas.
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