January 16, 2015

Subscription Headlines Round-Up

Publishing deals, unexpected revelations and lessons learned are among this week’s top subscription site stories. Here are some of the headlines: Big-5 publisher Macmillan adds its eBooks to Scribd and Oyster Gigaom Will emerging markets provide a new haven for print B2B magazines? The Media Briefing What do to when things go wrong: 3 lessons from Sony & Microsoft Subscription Content With new Charlie Hebdo cover, news value should have prevailed New York Times Google News now will crawl & index images hosted off…

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Digital News Consumption Rises in the UK

Will 2015 be the year UK newspapers can officially say they have turned the corner? After years of trying to figure out how to stem the loss of print subscribers, many British news publishers had good numbers to report in 2014, as gains in digital subscriptions helped them achieve positive results: The UK’s largest newspaper, The Sun, had its digital subscriber base almost double from 117,000 to 225,000 within a year The Financial Times saw its overall…

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DirecTV Raising Subscription Rates in 2015

Starting in next month, DirecTV will be raising rates for all of its customers. DirecTV is the second largest television provider in the United States, with over 20 million subscribers. This rise in subscription fees ismeant to offset a steady rise in programming costs. According to Nasdaq, the cost for the baseline package will now be $59.99 per month, a rise of 3.5%, while the top-level package will now cost $86.99 per month, up 6%. The…

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