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The Digital Daily from CyberJournalist.net

The Digital Daily from CyberJournalist.net

Digital Media Must Reads for December 21st

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 11:00 AM PST

The New York Times Paywall Is Working Better Than Anyone Had Guessed

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 07:53 AM PST

“More than a year and a half later, it's clear the New York Times' paywall is not only valuable, it's helped turn the paper's subscription dollars, which once might have been considered the equivalent of a generous tithing, into a significant revenue-generating business,” Bloomberg reports.

As of this year, the company is expected to make more money from subscriptions than from advertising — the first time that's happened.Digital subscriptions will generate $91 million this year, according to Douglas Arthur, an analyst with Evercore Partners. The paywall, by his estimate, will account for 12 percent of total subscription sales, which will top $768.3 million this year. That's $52.8 million more than advertising. Those figures are for the Times newspaper and the International Herald Tribune, largely considered the European edition of the Times.It's a milestone that upends the traditional 80-20 ratio between ads and circulation that publishers once considered a healthy mix and that is now no longer tenable given the industrywide decline in newsprint advertising.

via Bloomberg.
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