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Hot Off The Twitter Bot: How To Train Your Newspaper To Survive The Digital Age

By embracing a "digital first" approach, The Guardian has seen readership on its website shoot up by over 40% year over the past two years. Its latest feature, the Twitter-scaling search bot @GuardianTagBot, should only help. “It has fun and charm, but it's also fantastically useful and structurally sound,” Janine Gibson, who leads the papers' digital operations in the U.S., tells us. READ»

The Unexpected iPad Effect: Android Tablets As A Marketing Commodity

How long will it be before a cornflakes packet comes with a free Android tablet, as long as you buy three packs, not two?READ»

Apple's App Store Is Now Offering Subscriptions

After an extended period when we knew they were coming but had no insight into how they'd work, subscription powers have hit Apple's App Store, ready to support digital magazines and newspapers. READ»

Amazon Brings Newspapers, Magazines to Kindle Apps, Starting With Android

Amazon's just revealed it's expanding the capabilities of its Kindle apps, starting with Android, to include digital newspaper and magazines singly or in subscription form. It's a big move, but is it timed to compete with the iPad "Daily" newspaper?READ»

Extra! Extra! Read All About It. Paper May Be Here to Stay After All

Amazon is selling more digital books than hardcover books. It makes one wonder if this is the beginning of the end of paper. While the sales of newspapers plummet and news magazines get thinner by the day, the eulogies for paper might still be premature.READ»

Murdoch's "Digital Newsstand" Alesia Closing Up Shop

Project Alesia, one year and $30 million in the making, would have bundled online subscriptions to magazines and newspapers, but publishers weren't interested.READ»

Rupert Murdoch Rumored to Be Launching Tablet-Targeted News Service

Tablets, apparently, are the new tabloids.READ»

U.K. Times Website Paywall Kills Two-Thirds of Visitor Traffic

The U.K.'s Times is among the vanguard of companies erecting paywalls around the websites of old-world news publications. It's a bold move. Now some early stats are out to reveal how poorly it's working. The figures popped up on ...READ»

Virgin Enters 'Underserved' iPad Magazine Market With New Publication, Maverick

Virgin, Sir Richard Branson's company, is to go into e-publishing, with an iPad-only publication called Maverick. And, if the AdAge report is anything to go by, it sounds like it's going to be a direct competitor to FastCompany.com. ...READ»

Nobody Wants to Pay Taxes to Save Newspapers, and Why Should They? [Updated]

The newspaper industry is almost, but not quite, running like a headless chicken in the last throes of life thanks to the digital revolution. Can it be supported by extra taxes? Should it be?READ»

iFive: Facebook, Microsoft, Human-Computer Viruses, Green Streets, and Twitter

After a 13-month siesta, iFive has returned--so imagine just how much innovation has been going on during this mother of all power naps.1. Today we're all waiting, breath a-bated, for Facebook's changes to its privacy settings, which ...READ»

Audit Bureau of Circulation Adds Paid Apps and E-Readers to Mobile Publishing Stats

For newspapers, the Audit Bureau of Circulation's figures count a lot, as their stats can determine a publication's advertising rate--for better or worse. Its interactive unit, the ABCi just announced, via a partnership with Verve ...READ»

Are Paid Newspaper Apps Floundering on the iPad's Opening Weekend?

The iPad as savior of print media is one of its most prominent narratives. So what have we learned from opening weekend? Are people spending money on news again?READ»

Wall Street Journal to Hit iPad Screens, but It'll Cost You

A bastion of old-media newspaper publishing cozying up to the big bad digital publishing-business-overturning newbie Apple? Well, kinda: The Wall Street Journal has revealed its iPad subscription plans and profiled Apple's board of ...READ»

Infographic of the Day: "The Age of Crap"

As blogs proliferate, does their usefulness decline?READ»

Sign of the Times: For Newspapers to Survive, They Must Put Users First

If publications continue to rely on selling advertising to support their costs, how does that serve the audience's needs? Three ideas for how newspapers can refocus on readers.READ»

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The Lit World's *Other* Recluse: Calvin & Hobbes Creator Speaks!

Bill Watterson breaks a 15-year silence to joke about the death of newspapers. No word on whether he has an iPad.READ»

Ad It Up: Television to Live Another Day

Some new ad spending estimates brighten the picture for television.READ»

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Pay Walls Will Fail: Nobody Wants to Pay for Online Newspapers

The debate about the future of journalism rages on, with novel ideas and tantrums from all sides. But this piece of news is sure to give the argument a big shove: More research has shown that most people just won't pay for online ...READ»