From penny press to online content publishing expo presentation
1. From Penny Press to
online content
why the value
goes down as
channels go up...
and what you do
about that
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5. most newspapers in the
early nineteenth
century cost 6 cents and
were distributed
through subscriptions
on July 24, 1830, the
first penny press
newspaper came to the
market - Lynde M.
Walter's Boston
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9. UK newspapers suffered
the most dramatic
circulation declines of any
country outside America
UK circulation fell 25%
between 2007-09
second only to the US -
30%
Source: OECD 2010
11. Amazon’s recently introduced
digital “delivery fee,” charging
publishers 15 cents per megabyte
to transfer a book’s file to the
Kindle
Source: Publishers Weekly 2011
“the big print publishers need to
understand the reality of the 21st
century: either you roll with new
technology or you get rolled over
by it. That's the lesson of the
history of technology in
commerce”
Dan Agin, Huffington Post 2011
15. “If the unauthorized access is too
high, they've got something people
will be willingly inconvenienced to
read but the price is too steep; if the
unauthorized access is too low,
they're probably giving it away too
cheaply. Somewhere along the
spectrum, they'll calculate the
Goldilocks Price, and it will be just
right.”
Source:
http://vannevar.blogspot.com/2011/0
2/rupert-murdoch-paywall-goldilock-
price.html
24. nearly one-third of all online ad dollars are
expected to go to video in 2011
analysts expect by 2014 that the online video
market will be $5.71 billion at the high end of the
estimate spectrum and at the very least, $3.01
billion
Sources: eMarketer, (Forrester Research).
25. branded YouTube channel
top and tail links / ads
incorporate hyperlinks throughout a video –
see klickable.tv
• incorporating hyper-local news and
location-based services
32. Near Field Communication (NFC) – turns you
mobile into a wallet
50% of smart phones expected to ship with NFC
chip by end of 2011
more than just paying for coffee and train tickets
33. Google One Pass - a payment system that
enables publishers to set the terms for access
to their digital content