Only Apple Knows Who’s Subscribing, but They’re Paying for Digital Content By: Nat Ives Published: March 29, 2011 Popular Science magazine sold the 10,000th subscription to its iPad edition sometime on Sunday, nearly six weeks after accepting Apple’s terms for selling subs on its tablet. That’s a speck compared to the title’s nearly 1.2 million print subscriptions, [...]

By APARAJITA SAHA-BUBNA The Wall Street Journal has added 200,000 paying subscribers who access the newspaper via mobile devices such as Apple Inc.’s iPad and Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle. Les Hinton, head of the newspaper’s publisher, Dow Jones & Co., which is owned by News Corp., said Thursday that about 150,000 of the new subscribers were added in the last [...]

By Richard Waters Published: March 9 2011 For media companies, when and how to tap into the new mobile and social platforms on the web is as much a question of timing and technological tactics as of business strategy. But make no mistake: as the platforms quickly evolve, most companies have little choice but to engage [...]

By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York and Tim Bradshaw in London Published: February 24 201 The digital music market is set to be shaken up as soon as this summer as Apple, Google and Spotify race to deliver new services that labels warily hope may reverse a decade of declining revenues. Each of the technology companies is taking [...]

By YUKARI IWATANI KANE And ETHAN SMITH With the new tablet device that is debuting next week, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs is betting he can reshape businesses like textbooks, newspapers and television much the way his iPod revamped the music industry—and expand Apple’s influence and revenue as a content middleman. In developing the device, Apple focused on [...]