RK

Subscription Website Datapoint of the Day

No kidding. I used to register at news web sites. Not anymore. I have reached my threshold of mass mailing email from all the sites I have already registered. No single news website is important enough for me to go through registration.

Newspapers and the Internet: Opportunities Lost

What is surprising to me is that the newspaper industry by and large did not try to re-invent themselves by buying their competitors in the advertising space. I know there were small acquisitions on the content side, but very little on the ad delivery side (to my knowledge). Even to this day, why aren't the newspapers buying ad networks? If NYT for instance owns a big ad network, wouldn't that help them to transition to digital faster?

L.A. Times: The Inconvenient Poster Child for the Newspaper Debacle

If anyone blames wall street for the decline of the newspaper business, he or she does not get the internet-based businesses.