Tag Archives: Magazines

Apple needs to make peace with Medialand

By Peter Kirwan | Published: Friday 18 February 2011

How unpleasant can Apple make the experience of publishing apps for the iPad? In Europe, the disincentives are piled high. The cost structure behind every £1 of revenue earned by a UK paid-app publisher has looks distinctly nasty: In the UK, publishers will continue to pay Apple 30%. Thanks to Apple’s decision to ban in-app [...]

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The economics of paywall publishing: It’s a niche thing

By Peter Kirwan | Published: Wednesday 20 May 2009

Yes, I know. This kind of exercise has been done before. But mostly in the US. (If a similar exercise exists for UK markets, apologies: send me a link and I’ll append it to the bottom of this post.) In any event: given Rupert Murdoch’s enthusiasm for paywalls, I wanted to figure out what Times [...]

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