Not exact matches
But some national
newspapers are showing that a
subscription model can work.
Probably not: whether
newspapers exist in print in twenty years or not, I'm confident that professional news - gathering entities WILL exist and that they will be supported by their readers, though whether it'll be by advertising or
subscription or some now - nonexistent alternative is yet to be seen (my bet's on a mix of
models).
In music, in movies, in
newspapers — you can not find a digital medium where
subscription isn't a
model that succeeds at some level, and I don't think books will be immune to this.
The traditional
model is that advertising and
subscription revenue offset the costs of printing the magazine or
newspaper, paying the reviewers and editors, shipping the books, etc..
The Toronto Star is testing the ebook market with a dedicated
subscription model — something no other
newspaper in Canada has tried yet.
Thousands of
Newspapers are evaluating buying into this new
subscription model at the World
Newspaper Congress in Bangkok.
With business
models that link online stores to specialised gadgets, companies like Apple and Amazon are proving that consumers will pay for music downloads, ebooks and even online
newspaper subscriptions if you make it easy and attractive enough.
The Detroit Free Press and Detroit News — two different
newspapers, apparently owned by the same company — have been forced to save money by changing their
subscription model.
In the Forrester scenario, however,
newspaper and magazine publishers, still searching for a profitable 21st - century business
model, would subsidize the e-reader hardware in exchange for a long - term user
subscription.
The average weekly price of a digital
subscription for
newspapers using a meter
model is $ 2.97.
As the eReader market grows in Australia, it looks like electronic
newspaper subscriptions will follow a more traditional
model where subscribes subscribe from the
newspaper itself.
It is conceivable that
newspapers could benefit from micro payments for content / articles hosted on Blockchain and this would be a different way of introducing another form of paid
model in addition to the monthly or annual digital
subscription.